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EverPass Media and Miller's Ale House announced an expanded multi-year partnership. Miller's Ale House will add NFL Sunday Ticket and ESPN+ for Business at all restaurants, and leveraging existing services such as EverPass Core, Engage, and Peacock Sports Pass, will transform in-store screens into a 24/7 sports content and customer engagement platform.

On July 13, 2026, EverPass Media announced the launch of a Connected TV App and several new platform features, designed to address real-world challenges faced by commercial venues in playing live sports content, including multi-screen management, device compatibility, and playback synchronization. New features include expanded smart TV device support, optimized multi-screen playback synchronization, and integration capabilities with existing AV control systems.

A new book titled "How I Steal From You" has recently drawn widespread attention in the restaurant industry. Co-authored by Chloe Rachel Howard and Jauna L. Werner, it uses true-crime narrative techniques to reveal hidden methods of internal theft, fraud, and exploitation in restaurants, and has reached the top of Amazon's new releases in the restaurant and food industry category. Spanning 182 pages, the book targets bar and restaurant owners, general managers, investors, and food service professionals, providing both story-driven and practical prevention advice.

Interface Systems released the 2026 Restaurant Safety Benchmark Report on July 15, 2026. The study covers 1.1 million surveillance events across 9,392 restaurant locations in the United States, representing 78 restaurant brands. The report shows that loiterers and panhandlers (49.8%) and disruptive behavior (21.5%) together account for over 70% of high-priority events; 3% of locations generated 81% of high-priority events; and 98.4% of events were resolved through remote interactive monitoring without police intervention.

Deliverect and Bounteous announced a global strategic partnership on August 24, 2026, integrating Bounteous's NomNom™ digital experience platform with Deliverect's AI-driven, API-first ordering and fulfillment infrastructure, aiming to provide personalized, scalable first-party digital ordering solutions for restaurant and convenience store brands.

Since its founding in 2007, Skip Shapiro Enterprises has served over 200 food and beverage processing facilities across the United States, cumulatively destroying and recycling more than 1 billion beverage containers, processing over 53,000 tons of food waste, and diverting over 10.1 million pounds of organic waste. The company recently launched the BeverageDestruction.com platform and participates in the nation's largest food waste-to-energy project.

The latest report from the National Restaurant Association (NRA) shows that more than a quarter of restaurant operators are already using AI-related tools, with marketing being the most common application. Although AI ordering has not yet become widespread, consumer acceptance of AI ordering is rising, especially among younger groups. Operators continue to increase technology investment to cope with cost pressures, and giants like Yum Brands and McDonald's are also advancing their AI strategies.

Purple Drop, a craft-brewed Peruvian purple corn beverage brand, has been named a winner in the Beverage category of Startup CPG's 2026 Shelfie Awards. The recognition highlights the brand's early growth and the rising American interest in chicha morada, a traditional Peruvian drink.

Harri announced the completion of its workforce management platform deployment across all 2,112 Jack in the Box locations nationwide. The project spanned five months, covering more than 70 franchise organizations, and unified scheduling, compliance, and real-time labor optimization management.

With SSCP's support, Corner Bakery completed bankruptcy restructuring, stabilizing its store count at about 90, with average per-store revenue rising from $1.6 million in 2023 to $2.2 million. The brand is restructuring low-density markets through franchising and plans to resume net growth by 2027.