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Wendy’s new CEO, Starbucks AI walk-back, and CAVA’s big quarter
On this week’s Extra Serving, NRN editor in chief Sam Oches and executive editor Alicia Kelso discuss the latest restaurant industry news, including Wendy’s hiring a new CEO, Starbucks ditching an AI tool, and CAVA cruising in the first quarter. First up is Wendy’s, which announced that it was hiring former Potbelly CEO Bob Wright as its next CEO. Wright had three previous stints as an executive at Wendy’s, and Sam and Alicia discuss how this move could be the missing ingredient to Wendy’s badly needed turnaround. Next they tackle Starbucks, which is ditching an AI inventory tool it had…
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