Main Street Minute: Valley restaurant chain Scramble cooking up expansion

KTAR’s Main Street Minute focuses on local businesses that are hiring, opening and hosting events across the community. These stories air each weekday on KTAR at 7:27 a.m.

• A local restaurant company is expanding. Scramble has announced plans to open a site near 24th Street and Camelback Road in Phoenix in December, and one in Chandler next spring. The locations will feature dog-friendly patios. The breakfast-and-lunch eatery already has spots in Phoenix and Scottsdale.

• More than a dozen companies including Chase, State Farm and Hyatt Regency are taking part in a job fair Thursday in Phoenix. The event runs from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Friendship Community Church near 48th Street and Elliot Road.

• The state Department of Public Safety has received $600,000 to improve its computerized dispatch. The grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety will be used to replace the aging computer-aided dispatch system.