Moe's Southwest Grill is hitting the road with its Tour de Burrito truck. It's rolling through four cities and aims to open its kitchen doors to fans and showcase the menu. Bruce Schroder, President of Moe's joins Cheddar to discuss why, after being open for 17 years and franchising over 700 restaurants, this Tour de Burrito truck is vital to its customers. He talks about the fresh ingredients at Moe's, which serves 41,000 pounds of salsa with 60,000 pounds of freshly fried tortilla chips. The fast-casual restaurant has tried to innovate with its rewards-tracking app, Schroder talks about how important it is to capture the millennial consumer.
Plus, Moe's is a privately held company. Is now the time to go public? Schroder explains that as a private company its goals can be focused on the right priorities for its consumers.
Moe's has poked some fun at Chipotle's Queso reviews. Schroder says the conversation around Chipotle's not-so-great dip has actually helped sales because it's brought awareness to the dip!
About 780,000 pressure washers sold at retailers like Home Depot are being recalled across the U.S. and Canada, due to a projectile hazard that has resulted in fractures and other injuries among some consumers.
President Donald Trump has fired one of two Democratic members of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to break a 2-2 tie ahead of the board considering the largest railroad merger ever proposed.
Ford is recalling more than 355,000 of its pickup trucks across the U.S. because of an instrument panel display failure that’s resulted in critical information, like warning lights and vehicle speed, not showing up on the dashboard.
The Rev. Al Sharpton is set to lead a protest march on Wall Street to urge corporate America to resist the Trump administration’s campaign to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The New York civil rights leader will join clergy, labor and community leaders Thursday in a demonstration through Manhattan’s Financial District that’s timed with the anniversary of the Civil Rights-era March on Washington in 1963. Sharpton called DEI the “civil rights fight of our generation." He and other Black leaders have called for boycotting American retailers that scaled backed policies and programs aimed at bolstering diversity and reducing discrimination in their ranks.
President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a $1.2 billion contract to build and operate what's expected to become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex to a tiny Virginia firm with no experience running correction facilities.
