California Pizza Kitchen Opens New Hong Kong Location
California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) - creator of California-style pizza - announced the grand opening of its new restaurant in Hong Kong in partnership with Chun Fat Enterprise Limited. With over 27 years of serving guests in the Hong Kong market, the new restaurant, located within the Tuen Mun Town Plaza, the largest mall in Hong Kong’s Northwest New Territories, allows CPK to bring its diverse and innovative California-style menu to new diners within the popular mall location.
The Tuen Mun Town Plaza location captures CPK’s warm California brand-style throughout the space with sunny tones, wood decor accents, and large windows that pour in plenty of natural light. CPK’s signature hearth pizza oven and open kitchen layout give a welcoming feeling and invites guests to sit, enjoy and watch their meals being prepped for a more engaging dining experience.
Pancheros Teams with DoorDash on Limited-Time Free Delivery
QSRmagazine.com says Pancheros Mexican Grill is celebrating the start of summer with a weeklong special promotion for its loyal fans. Between June 21 and 27, the fast-casual Mexican chain is offering free delivery when guests place orders on the Pancheros app or on Pancheros.com.
“Our fans see huge value in using our app because of the ways we reward them for their loyalty. This promotion is another way we want to show them how much we appreciate their devotion to Pancheros,” says Ryan Murrin, Chief Marketing Officer for Pancheros Mexican Grill.
Kohl’s announces huge sale to compete with Amazon’s Prime Day
NJ.com reports that Kohl’s is the latest big-box retailer to announce it will hold a massive sale during Amazon’s extremely popular Prime Day 2021, which is a mega online shopping event exclusive to members.
The department store said it have a “WOW Deals” shopping event starting Monday, June 21 through June 22 (the same as Amazon’s Prime Day time slot). The Kohl’s sale will feature “epic savings on hundreds of products” across the home, toys, beauty and apparel categories. New deals will be available each day, online and in stores.
Fifth Third Bank, Employees, Customers Provide More Than 4.6 Million Meals for Families
Fifth Third Bank’s annual “Feeding Our Communities” initiative provided more than 4.6 million meals in May to fight hunger across its footprint. The monthlong effort involved virtual volunteer activities by employees and monetary donations, including customer-purchased Shield of Recognition sales.
Feeding America®, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization which has a network of 200 food banks across the country, projects that 42 million people, including 13 million children, may experience food insecurity in 2021. Many individuals most affected by the pandemic were food insecure or at risk of food insecurity before COVID-19 and are facing greater hardship since COVID-19.
Gopuff Acquires rideOS to Accelerate Innovation
Gopuff, the go-to solution for immediate everyday needs, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire rideOS, an enterprise start-up that builds cutting-edge proprietary technology for advanced routing, on-demand dispatch and fleet optimization for the fast-growing delivery and logistics industries.
Sharad Sundaresan, Gopuff’s SVP, Product & Growth, said, “rideOS is among the best mapping, dispatching and routing technology firms in the industry and we are thrilled to have them lead innovation in key sectors for Gopuff. This investment will enable Gopuff to continually improve the customer experience in more complex geographies as we lead and define the Instant Needs category worldwide.”