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🔪 The top F&B industry news from the past week
Weekly Digest: 6th May 2022
Grubhub is opening a virtual restaurant with MasterChef
📍 USA | Joanna Fantozzi | Nation’s Restaurant News
MasterChef alumni food is coming to Grubhub.
Online Order Management Firm Nextbite Launches Restaurant Financial Reconciliation Tool
📍 USA | PYMTS
“The Nextbite Reconciliation tool will collect a restaurant’s delivery service transactions, including orders, rebates and cancellations, along with reports from multiple DSPs into a standardized format, and then will reconcile them together for a unified overview.”
As Political Fight to Ban Natural Gas Rages On, Microsoft and Others are Pressing Ahead With All-Electric Kitchens
📍 USA | Michael Wolf | The Spoon
What does the future of gas look like for professional kitchens?
More than 3K Canadian restaurants shuttered over past year
📍Canada | QSR Web
3,344 Canadian restaurants went out of business in the last year. Things weren’t much better in the USA.
Boris Johnson shelves plan ensure restaurant workers can keep tips
📍 UK | Jon Stone | The Independent
Johnson’s government is looking to pause legislation relating to tipping practices in the UK.
Restaurant insolvencies increase by 41% in a year
📍 UK | Emma Lake | The Caterer
“The number of restaurant businesses going bust has jumped by 41% in the last year following the expiry of Covid-19 support measures.”
How tech is moving the Czech food industry into the future
📍 Czech Republic | Elizabeth Zahradnicek-Haas | Expat.cz
Prague-based Chef Štěpán Návrat is leading the way with Choco platform.
Business boom predicted for Hong Kong restaurants with city set to relax dining restrictions ahead of Mother’s Day
📍 Hong Kong | Laura Westbrook | South China Morning Post
“Dining industry leader says business this weekend could allow eateries to regain 70 per cent of commercial activity from pre-pandemic period.”