S.A. Whitehead

Pizza Marketplace and QSRweb editor Shelly Whitehead is a former newspaper and TV reporter with an affinity for telling stories about the people and innovative thinking behind great brands.

Recent Contributions

Why a Brooklyn QSR adopts the Automat concept

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Can a tiny bite-sized pasta package known as the humble dumpling make it in the brutal restaurant world of the Big Apple and beyond? One veteran New York City…

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Pandemic piques interest in 'brick-oven-style' pizza vending machines

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Can you really get a pizza that tastes like it was fired in a brick oven from a high-tech vending machine? Basil Street Cafe thinks so, as it prepares to roll…

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7 ways the CARES Act could hurt foodservice operators

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

The National Restaurant Association this week sent letters to leaders at the U.S. Treasury and Small Business Administration asking for clarification — and in…

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American QSR customers enter their 'blue mood'

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

What do purple food, an illegal South American bean and a funky blue fungus on corn have in common? According to Technomic, they're all proven, promising food…

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Coronavirus' effect on supply chains: Potentially worse than 2002 SARS outbreak

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

While this morning the coronavirus has reportedly killed more than 2,100 and sickened more than 75,700, QSRs and other businesses are waiting and wondering how…

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