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🚨 NOW STREAMING: The October 19, 2026 Episode of PULSE! Today’s Hotel, Restaurant & Bar Industry News Deep Dive 🍽️🏨🍸

In today’s headline shake-up, we break down the high-stakes moves reshaping commercial hospitality, QSR operations, and foodservice enterprise strategy:

🔥 QSR Beverage Wars: KFC makes a seismic swap from Pepsi to Coca-Cola to reignite U.S. traffic, while Taco Bell targets $5B in drink sales with new horchata test menus.

⚖️ Regulatory Overhauls: What Governor Gavin Newsom’s latest California legislative wave and the newly released FDA 2026 Food Code mean for your back-of-house SOPs and compliance logs.

🏢 Real Estate & Restructuring: How hotel owners are leveraging soft-brand conversions to dodge heavy PIP costs, plus analysis on CPG bankruptcy signals (Hain Celestial, True Food Kitchen) vs. rapid QSR expansions (Zaxby's NYC entry).

⚙️ Culinary Operations: Menu matrix audits, managing diesel-driven food inflation, and cutting prime costs below 60% to build repeatable, non-founder-dependent systems.

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