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The Jersey Mike’s acquisition, McDonald’s new value meal, and food trends for 2025
On this week’s Extra Serving, NRN editor in chief Sam Oches and executive editor Alicia Kelso discuss Blackstone’s acquisition of Jersey Mike’s. The brand’s founder and CEO Peter Cancro claimed it was still in the “early innings” of growth, so what should we expect from this sandwich player going forward? Plus, McDonald’s has had a busy couple of weeks, playing both offense (debuting the McValue menu, offering a jug of McRib sauce for sale) and defense (paying roughly $100 million to move past its E. coli outbreak, suffering from espresso machine outages). How might this affect performance at…
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