Had enough pumpkin-flavored everything this fall? Dunkin’ is taking it up a notch with a Spicy Ghost Pepper Donut, added to its menu beginning Wednesday for a limited time at participating Dunkin’ restaurants nationwide until December. “Halloween looks a little different this year, and so do our donuts," said Jill Nelson, vice president of marketing strategy at Dunkin’, in a statement.

Amazon reportedly will offer a wildcard NFL playoff game. “Amazon already streams 11 Thursday Night Football games annually and has been looking to carry more football on its Amazon Prime Video platform,” according to The Wall Street Journal. “Amazon renewed its Thursday Night Football deal earlier this year for three seasons in a pact worth at least $75 million annually, according to an industry executive with knowledge of NFL media rights.”

Carnival Cruise Line announced additional voyage cancellations into late spring of next year. The behemoth cruise line also announced that it will sell Carnival Fascination, launched in 1994, and Carnival Imagination, launched in 1995. In July, the company sold Carnival Fantasy and Carnival Inspiration.

Starbucks is linking its executive compensation to the diversity and equity of teams and will require all vice president-level employees and above to complete anti-bias training. “The company is also establishing an Inclusion and Diversity Executive Council to give voice to and provide internal governance on issues pertaining to people of color within the organization, and committed to achieving 30% BIPOC representation at the corporate level by 2025,” per Nation’s Restaurant News.

Behemoth movie theater chain AMC might run out of cash by year’s end if it doesn’t raise additional funds and attendance continues to lag. The chain has reopened about 83% of its U.S. theaters, but attendance is down about 85% on a same-theater basis from last year. “Many Hollywood executives and analysts believed the U.S. movie-theater industry was poised for a correction even before the pandemic struck,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

While many national restaurants are encouraging voting by both customers and employees, Chicago’s Fifty/50 Restaurant Group is taking it a step further. The company’s West Town Bakery & Diner announced this week it will sell “Go Vote Smash Cakes” featuring less-than-flattering images of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, with a “generous portion” of proceeds from each cake going to benefit an ACLU of Illinois voter initiative.

High-tech manufacturing has found its way into sneaker production. “Adidas has revealed that for the last four years its computer and sports scientists have been secretly working on a brand-new way to create a shoe’s upper,” per Wired. “Called ‘Futurecraft.Strung,’ the technology sees a robot quickly place more than a thousand individual threads at mind-bending angles across the material part of the shoe.”

The apparel brand formerly owned by Walmart is being taken in a new direction by its new owners, Go Global Retail. Technology implementations have been top of mind. The new owners want to leverage the digital makeover to further reach the retailer's target demographic of millennial women between ages 18 to 35.

Kroger is getting in on the food-industry trend by partnering with startup ClusterTruck. The midwestern grocery chain will supply ghost kitchens—industrial workspaces where food is prepared for delivery or takeout, often for multiple vendors—which ClusterTruck will use to cook its food orders.The partnership is an expansion of a pilot program that took off last year. The concept became buzzy in 2018 when Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick declared it the next big thing.

One California Taco Bell attracts tourists from all over the world.“Nestled 75 feet from the ocean on Pacifica State Beach, it looks more like a SoCal bungalow than a fast-food place with $1.29 tacos,” according to SF Gate. “The beach’s gentle waves lightly crash against the sand behind the Taco Bell, burritos make their way out of a surfer to-go window on their wrap-around porch, and there’s a surfboard rack out front, because, of course, there is.”