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...When the FT paid a visit to Sandwich Hub, Chourasia joked about the shop’s branding, but wouldn’t immediately comment on the Trafigura case....
...Users with Amazon accounts could walk in, pick up a sandwich and walk out again, letting the store’s cameras and sensors track them and charge their account....
...He rips apart the third sandwich, a Wigmore cheese, tomato and basil concoction, and hands me a portion....
...The ambitious private equity-backed group behind Arby’s sandwich shops and Buffalo Wild Wings is in talks to acquire Dunkin’ Brands for nearly $9bn....
...“It’s important to us because obviously we have shops right across the country.”...
...His mother finished the four-year programme in three years, while running her shop and raising three small boys....
...Behfar Jahanshahi, whose professional services company Interworks employs 230 people around the world, first met Mr Weinzweig at an Inc magazine event for America’s 500 fastest-growing companies....
...When the service launched a few years ago, Uber boasted it could bring lunch to a customer waiting in line at a sandwich shop before he or she had even reached the front of the queue....
...Last year, it confirmed that it saw its first-ever net reduction of sandwich shops in America in 2016, shuttering hundreds of stores after years of aggressive expansion....
...Jimmy John’s, the sandwich chain, is possibly the most high-profile example in recent years....
...Where, somehow, even in New York, there was more time to just hang out — and where the best chats happened over an egg salad sandwich rather than on a WhatsApp group....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on August 22 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“In New York, you don’t have your employees hired when they go to buy their sandwich from the food truck, like in Boston,” he says....
...In 1965, aged 17 and armed with just the $1,000 he borrowed from family friend Peter Buck, who became his business partner, DeLuca opened his first sandwich shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut....
...Chipotle and others including Noodles & Co and Potbelly Sandwich Shop are growing at 9-10 per cent a year, compared with 2-3 per cent for traditional fast-food chains, according to food consultancy Technomic...
...At lunchtime I avoided burgers sweating under hot lamps in the mammoth buffet and chose an uninspiring sandwich instead. But even then I didn’t mind that much....
...In some cities, it is piloting a food-delivery service that it boasts can bring lunch to a hungry worker with a smartphone before she reaches the front of the queue at her usual sandwich shop....
...As he speaks, people rush by with bags from Potbelly Sandwich Shop, Freshii, Noodles & Co and another Chipotle, three blocks away, where the queue stretches on to the sidewalk....
...Cathy’s simple fried chicken breast sandwich went on to become an icon of southern fast food, served at 1,800 Chick-fil-A outlets nationwide and generating about $5bn in annual sales....
...Previous trials of beacons have taken place in several Eat sandwich shops in London, to promote its food and drinks....
...Potbelly shares slumped 25 per cent to $10.97 after the Chicago-based chain of sandwich shops cut its sales forecast for the year after a testing second quarter....
...Eat, the chain of London-based sandwich shops, has agreed the first trial of iBeacon, using a system devised by Weve, which is backed by the UK’s largest mobile telecoms groups....
...It shares a block with establishments long in the tooth: Italian social clubs, a barber shop and a pizza parlour....
...Jean-Baptiste Rudelle started his online advertising company in a spare room behind his wife’s sandwich shop in Paris. The shop, Lilo, no longer exists....
...Shares in Potbelly, a US sandwich-shop chain, more than doubled in their debut on Friday, highlighting the growing popularity of “fast-casual” restaurants that promise diners healthier fare than traditional...
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