Fast-food chain, behind $20M investment, plans restaurant of the future

With a $20 million investment, burger chain seeks to capitalize on some pandemic-based, quick-service restaurant trends.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:00 a.m. March 5, 2021
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Courtesy. The first fully reimaged Checkers restaurant, its restaurant of the future, will be in Lakeland.
Courtesy. The first fully reimaged Checkers restaurant, its restaurant of the future, will be in Lakeland.
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The pandemic took a big bite out of many restaurants, from chef-driven, fine dining establishments to McDonald’s. But Checkers & Rally’s, the Tampa-based, drive-thru burger chain recorded high same store sales gains in 2020, opened 36 new restaurants and amended its debt.

 

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