EPISODE · Feb 15, 2019 · 44 MIN
Episode 102: Uber Founder Moves Into Food Delivery
from The Working Lunch · host Align Public Strategies
The restaurant industry is about to get Uberized. Travis Kalanick is launching Cloud Kitchens, a worldwide network of food delivery kitchens. We’ll discuss the impacts to the traditional business model. Also, New York City is becoming a labor organizers dream. Now they are proposing legislation making it harder to fire employees. And lastly, this was a tough week for retail. The worst sales in 9 years, labor unrest at ToysRUs, Walmart loses a big court case and Amazon bails out of Queens. What is going on over in retail? We’ll talk about those stories and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.
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The restaurant industry is about to get Uberized. Travis Kalanick is launching Cloud Kitchens, a worldwide network of food delivery kitchens. We’ll discuss the impacts to the traditional business model. Also, New York City is becoming a labor organizers dream. Now they are proposing legislation making it harder to fire employees. And lastly, this was a tough week for retail. The worst sales in 9 years, labor unrest at ToysRUs, Walmart loses a big court case and Amazon bails out of Queens. What is going on over in retail? We’ll talk about those stories and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.
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