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Nanyang started to offer Asian offerings this month. Breadtalk Group-owned Toast Box has closed its Philippine sites after a decade of operations. “We want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for your patronage for the past 10 years. It has been a privilege and a delight serving you,” the announcement stated in their branches in Manila.

Here is a summary of the most interesting QSR news stories of the week from around the world. Starbucks recently closed 8,000 stores for a day to conduct racial bias training to around 175,000 employees, following an incident in Philadelphia where two black men were arrested at a store while waiting for a friend because they did not order.

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They will do this through a joint venture with Shenzhen Pindao.

It is now the coffee brand’s biggest store in the country.

The country’s largest fast food operator is suspected to be engaged in labor-only contracting. The Philippines’ Department of Labor and Employment named 20 companies that they claim or suspect to engage in labor-only contracting, depriving employees of security of tenure. In a report by ABS-CBN News, Jollibee is listed as having topped the list, with 14,960 "affected" workers. The labor department previously ordered Jollibee and subsidiary Burger King, to regularize about 7,000 workers, prior to Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte signing an executive order to stop “endo” or hiring workers in 5-month-long cycles.  

Customers at cafés and restaurants may soon place their orders in a machine via voice. With the aim of enhancing the customer experience, Alibaba launched its “smart ordering” system – featuring software where order placements are addressed to a machine via voice recognition technology. The new innovation from Alibaba Machine Intelligence Technologies boasts that the machine’s AI is able make as many order changes or corrections to update the order in real time.

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Customers of the dining group’s eight restaurants can indulge in their special offers.

Its Paket Berdug Barkah consists of two choices that customers can choose from.

Hong Kong’s Coffee Concepts won the rights to open the coffee brand in the country. The Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) has officially permitted Coffee Concepts Myanmar Ltd to operate Starbucks outlets, with the first one opening in Yangon.

The agreed expansion will take place in the next three years. Aiming to expand its business and restaurant services in Malaysia, QSR Stores has signed a memorandum of understanding with Petronas Dagangan to gradually open 50 new KFC Drive-Thru outlets at Petronas stations nationwide. QSR Stores is a wholly-owned subsidiary QSR Brands (M) Holdings, who in turn is the franchisor of KFC in Malaysia. Currently, it has over 1,250 KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Cambodia – making it the region’s largest quick service restaurant operator. QSR Brands Managing Director Datuk Mohamed Azahari Mohamed Kamil said this strategic collaboration with PDB will provides an "excellent opportunity for QSR Brands to expand its business and restaurant services for the next three years." “As a market leader within the quick service restaurants segment in Malaysia, we want our service to be easily accessible to customers. While continuing to strengthen our core product and service offerings to deliver excellent customer experiences, we place a great emphasis on our expansion strategies to meet the elevated demands of our customers today and tomorrow,” he said.

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It is expected to reach across more than 125,000 premium points of distribution in partnership with Tingyi.