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National Restaurant Association survey finds 14% of operators expect to close within three months without federal relief

Chipotle is the latest foodservice company to make this type of commitment, with goals of increasing locally grown food, maintaining racial and gender pay equity, and improving environmental transparency

The $1,400 stimulus checks in President Biden’s stimulus plan could lift restaurant sales by up to mid-single digits for seven weeks, Bloomberg Intelligence says

Casual-dining burger brand CEO Paul Murphy says pizza could generate $60M in additional annual sales

Brad West is new COO, Sue Petersen is EVP of D&I and people, and Corey Kline is EVP of tech

Texas opened up restaurants completely and ditched mask restrictions, Massachusetts removed all indoor dining restrictions while Chicago and San Francisco increased capacity

California-based limited-service rice bowl chain makes additional executive changes

Burger brand expects daypart to grow to 10% of sales mix by the end of 2021 from 7% in Q4