Episode 169: Financial Update: Some Companies Are Prospering While Others May Be Disappearing

The delivery space blew up this week with significant developments in courtrooms, statehouses, city halls as well as in social and cultural activism. All in one week. We’ll try to get our arms around it and what it all means for operators. And Michael Halen, Senior Restaurant Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, stops by the pod once again to discuss the state of the industry’s finances and what the next few months of reopening may look like for operators both big and small. And the CEO of Uber got together with the President of the Rockefeller Foundation this week and co-authored a piece advocating a national portable benefits program. We’ll talk about this unusual partnership and what it means to the broader conversation. We’ll have those stories and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.