Consumer Marketing News, Views, and Reviews: January 2022

Welcome back to our monthly news roundup for franchise consumer marketers, first of the year. We’ve included several predictions for 2022, as well as our usual potpourri. We hope you had a good 2021, despite the pandemic, and wish everyone a healthy, happy, and prosperous year ahead. If you have news items, trends, reports, or studies you think will be useful to CMOs and our other franchise consumer marketing readers, please forward them our way! And now, the news…

Lead Nurturing Guide: 7 Steps Toward Setting Up Your Next Campaign

Starbucks Drops Vaccine Mandate After Supreme Court Decision

7-Eleven Launches Delivery Subscription Program

TGI Fridays To Launch New Small Format Concept, Fridays on the Fly

P.F. Chang’s Is Expanding Its Takeout Store Format

Checkers & Rally’s Rolling Out Automated Voice Ordering at 250 Stores in 2022 

New Privacy Bill Aims to Curtail Targeted Ads

Report: Holiday Sales Were Driven More by Inflation than Organic Growth

Poll Finds Optimistic Outlook Among Hiring Managers

U.S. Hiring Hit Annual Record in 2021, Despite December Slowdown

Are You a Caring Leader? Take the Caring Leadership Self-Assessment

6 Restaurant Tech Trends To Follow in 2022

3 Tech Trends That Will Shape How Restaurants Function in 2022