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US Restaurants Face Uncertain Winter Amid Pandemic

PYMNTS

21 to restaurants in Chicago, New York City, Boston and Philadelphia with five or fewer locations. Grubhub and the Restaurant Strong Fund are aiming to help with $2 million grants for independent restaurants through the winter, according to a report from Restaurant Business Online.

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Amazon Takes Territory In US And Beyond

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Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Austin, Boston and Chicago. The company has plans to add several large and small distribution centers in southeast Michigan, but this is the first large one in the state. In addition to the second headquarters Amazon plans to build in whichever U.S.

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Why Google Ditched Perishables

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In addition to adding the service to those seven markets, Google will also be enhancing services currently on offer in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Michigan, Wyoming, Iowa, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and Ohio. That can’t always be other retailers’ business model.”.

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Tim Hortons And The Innovative Donut

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Plain cake, glazed, chocolate dipped, Boston creme, powdered sugar and jelly was the standard line – with perhaps the occasional cruller or blueberry cake thrown in for exoticism. Donuts used to be one of the more standard staples of the American “balanced” breakfast. There was variety of course- but within limits.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Retail Bank, Citibank, New York, NY. Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA. Hughes, Senior Vice President and Director of Mortgage and Retail Lending, First Federal Savings Bank of Twin Falls, Twin Falls, IA. Lynn Drysdale, Managing Attorney, Consumer Law Unit, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc.,

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Fintech Fundings: 15 Companies Raise $125 Million Week Ending May 1

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. HQ: Grand Rapids, Michigan. Tags: Mobile commerce, e-gifting, payments, ecommerce, SMB, retailers. There were two jumbo rounds: $50 million to cryptocurrency startup Circle and $30 million to multiple Finovate Best of Show winner MX (formerly Money Desktop). Digital currency provider. Total raised: $1.5

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

CB Insights

In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). The restaurant has 12 current locations, in New York, LA, Providence, Boston, and most recently London, and another 20 are planned. table of contents.