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Brixmor Acquires 23 Grocery-Anchored Centers in $2.34B Deal
Brixmor Property Group's $2.34 billion purchase of Slate Grocery REIT expands its grocery-anchored footprint by 115 cen…
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Popeyes Launches $5 Honey Chicken Biscuit Nationwide
Popeyes formalizes a fan-driven flavor hack into a permanent menu entry, pairing its signature chicken with an oversize…
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Smoothie King Uses Loyalty Gate to Push Protein Coffee Launch
Smoothie King's two-day National Coffee Day freebie targets its Healthy Rewards base, using a time-boxed loyalty offer …
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The Red Chickz Signs DFW and Las Vegas Franchise Deals
The Red Chickz has signed franchise development agreements for Dallas-Fort Worth and Las Vegas following its Carrollton…
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Kroger Health Loses Its Food-as-Medicine Architect
Colleen Lindholz's retirement closes a chapter on Kroger Health's Food as Medicine strategy — a framework that shaped h…
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Death Wish Coffee Tests Pistachio DTC Before Retail Rollout
Death Wish Coffee's pistachio-flavored medium roast drops direct-to-consumer first, with major retail and Amazon distri…
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Beef Checkoff Targets Fall Menus With Comfort-Food Push
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is amplifying beef's fall relevance through consumer-facing recipe content — …
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Gourmia's 43L Air Fryer Oven Lands Exclusively at Costco
Gourmia's 43-liter countertop oven introduces CookFlow™ progress tracking and a top-mounted display, landing exclusivel…
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Columbus Vegetable Oils Adds Rail-Served Las Vegas Hub
Columbus Vegetable Oils' new North Las Vegas facility brings rail-served edible oil distribution — soybean, canola, avo…
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Osen Hospitality Group Takes Two Formats Into OCVIBE
Osen Hospitality Group becomes the first culinary partner to anchor both a market hall stall and a standalone restauran…
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Lupo Notte Opens as Southern Land's First Full-Service Restaurant
Lupo Notte, Southern Land Company's first full-service Italian restaurant, opened September 16 inside its Vertis Green …
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KFC Tests Next-Gen Format Across 3,500 U.S. Units
KFC's Open House location in McKinney, Texas functions as a live testing lab for menu expansion, service model changes,…