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Leigh Anne Zinsmeister, Managing Editor

December 18, 2024

KFC is opening an entirely new concept this week, called Saucy. The restaurant features chicken tenders, as well as 11 different sauces, and 11 beverages — a nod to the brand’s Original Recipe with 11 herbs and spices.

Grubhub will pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the FTC. The agency accused the delivery company of a number of deceptive practices, including hiding some delivery fees from customers until they were just about to pay.

Boston Market may be shrinking in the U.S., but the brand’s owner appears to be opening locations in India. Boston Chicken India apparently opened its doors in Delhi last month, according to various social media posts.

Starbucks Workers United announced that 98% of unionized baristas have voted to authorize a strike if necessary ahead of the union’s final bargaining talks with Starbucks of 2024.

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Leigh Anne Zinsmeister

Managing Editor

Leigh Anne Zinsmeister is a managing editor for Informa’s Foodservices Vertical, specifically Nation’s Restaurant News, Restaurant Hospitality, and Foodservice Director.  Leigh Anne works on all of the brands’ special reports, including Nation’s Restaurant News’ annual Top 500 report and Restaurant Hospitality’s Best Cocktails and Best Sandwiches contests. She also manages the group’s digital engagement team, and was the managing editor for Supermarket News until December 2024.

Leigh Anne lives in New York City, but also claims Phoenix, Dallas and Cleveland as hometowns. Leigh Anne holds a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, where she also studied European history. 

Email Leigh Anne at [email protected] 

Leigh Anne Zinsmeister’s experience: 

  • Group Managing Editor, Informa’s Foodservices Vertical (Aug. 2021-present)

  • Group Content Manager, Informa Restaurant and Food Group (Feb. 2020-Aug. 2021)

  • Digital Content Manager, Informa Restaurant and Food Group (April 2018-Feb. 2020)

  • Digital Content Producer, Informa Restaurant and Food Group (June 2016-April 2018)

  • Community Moderator, Mail Online (March 2014-June 2016)

  • Wire Editor, Gannett’s Phoenix Design studio (The Arizona Republic, The Reno Gazette-Journal, The Statesman Journal, The Great Falls Tribune, The Visalia Times-Delta, The Tulare Advance Register, The Salinas Californian, The St. George Spectrum, The Desert Sun, The Coloradoan) (Jan. 2012-March 2014)

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