The private equity firm Foundation Investment Partners has acquired Holtsville, N.Y.-based Weiss Instruments, a manufacturer of temperature and pressure instruments for the HVAC/R and OEM customers.
MORECaptain D’s is joining the growing list of brands scaling back on square footage and leaning on drive-thru and pickup only by rolling out a new prototype, dubbed Express.
MOREThe Middleby Corp. has promoted Steven Dunn to vice president of sales for Imperial Range, a manufacturer of commercial cooking equipment.
MOREThe foodservice equipment manufacturer Alto-Shaam has hired industry veteran Mark Caplin as regional sales manager for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
MORET&S Brass & Bronze Works, a manufacturer of equipment solutions for the foodservice and plumbing industries, has promoted Julia Heckman to sales coordinator.
MORERestaurant industry sales are finally showing signs of recovery, according to Black Box Financial Intelligence’s weekly Restaurant Industry Performance Pulse.
MOREThe experience of finding a tortilla chip with a little extra salt or a bigger hint of lime is something Chipotle customers enjoy, and the brand promises those subtle variations won’t be lost as it begins piloting a robot to take over the tortilla chip-making process.
MOREThe coffee chain’s founder, Howard Schultz, will serve as interim CEO for $1 of compensation.
MOREBear Robotics, a 2019 Kitchen Innovations award recipient, has raised $81 million in a Series B funding round to scale up mobile robots in the hospitality industry.
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