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Radical Reconsideration and the Behavior Change Opportunity for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants ranked as one the most dramatically impacted sectors of the economy during the pandemic, right up there with airlines, hotels, gyms and movie theaters. A year later, we see the promise of accelerating vaccination rates, and the lifting of crippling capacity restrictions imposed on restaurants.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-April 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Casual Dining velocity has grown by 158 percent over the same period, suggesting many of the Casual Dining business models were able to maintain sales to some degree through pandemic restrictions. In fact, 30 percent of recent casual dining visitors think there is an opportunity to improve the quality of the beverage offer.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Quick service and fast casual segments continue outperforming full-service restaurants by a very wide margin. Other leisure-related categories affected the most included travel, cruises, lodging and airlines. How Is Casual Dining Doing? Risking it for the biscuit? :

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-April 2020-COVID-19 Effects Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Other businesses have seen a surge of consumer interest, including chicken-wing joints (+84 percent), pizzerias (+71 percent) and fast-food restaurants (+55 percent). dine out more often to fulfill basic needs and gravitate toward drive-thru and take-away options associated with QSR and fast casual. In the U.K.

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Restaurant Industry Performance Pulse

Black Box Intelligence

QSR, fast casual and casual dining improved the most (improved sales growth by 1.9 Sales growth in fine dining and upscale casual also eroded during the week. . Fast casual and casual dining sales remained flat compared to the previous week. . Casual dining is also trending?about

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How I Got My Job: Running NYC’s Hottest Indian Restaurants and Winning a James Beard Award

EATER

In addition to these celebrated restaurants, the duo and their team also run fast-casual fried chicken concept Rowdy Rooster , the Biryani Bol delivery operation, and immersive virtual reality dining experience Aerobanquets RMX. In 2008, I quit hotels and took a job as a food and beverage manager at an international airline in India.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

Modern Restaurant Management

The kiosk trend will be embraced like it is in the airline industry. In the short term, it’s QSR that will experience labor improvement, then fast-casual. Restaurants will become increasingly casual. Consequently, restaurants can easily be staffed 24 hours a day with limited additional cost.