B+E Talks with Kris McDonald of Checkers & Rally’s Drive-In About the Pandemic’s Perfect Storm

The result was new and potentially better ways of running restaurants.

By Courtney Fingar | June 28, 2023 at 03:28 PM

For the restaurant industry, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic was an existential threat that provided an opportunity for evolution. Kris McDonald, vice president of development for Checkers & Rally’s Drive-In, works with restaurant franchisees and was in the eye of what she calls “the perfect storm” that caused chains to close kitchens, stop indoor dining and rely on drive-throughs and delivery. The result was new and potentially better ways of running restaurants.

“It’s given us a good opportunity to look at our basics and see how we improve,” McDonald says in the latest episode of a video interview series Women in Net Lease with B+E’s Camille Renshaw and Katherine Wadleigh-White.

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