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The Best Practice Awards 2025: Celebrating the Best Restaurant Brands in the Industry

Black Box Intelligence

Panda Express (Fast Casual) Who is Panda Express? Lower Turnover : On average, Panda Express consistently maintains much lower turnover rates for non-management, management, and General Manager employees compared to their local Fast Casual competitors. LongHorn Steakhouse (Casual Dining) Who is LongHorn Steakhouse?

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Check, Please… or Just Check Out? How Grocery and Convenience Stores Are Eating Into Restaurant Market Share

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry's competitive landscape for mealtime dollars is changing fast, and it's no longer brand against brand. Increasingly, grocery and convenience stores are stealing share by offering quick, affordable, and increasingly high-quality meal options. The 2,000 U.S.

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Can Fast Food Be Healthy?

Modern Restaurant Management

For Cody Pepper, CEO of Fast Fresh Brands, iit led him on a mission to make healthy eating accessible to everyone. This experience ignited a fire in him, leading him to leave a successful career in nonprofit and consulting to helm Fast Fresh, parent company of Bee Healthy Cafe and Nature's Table.

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Boosting Guest Satisfaction Through Faster Staff Responses

Modern Restaurant Management

In today’s fast-paced dining world, guest satisfaction goes beyond just great food—it’s about delivering a seamless experience. Communication as a Foundation for Service Efficiency Fast and effective service is rarely accidental.

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Traditional taco concepts crumble, while unconventional Mexican fast casuals find the secret sauce

Restaurant Business

Burrito-and-bowl chains Chipotle and Qdoba have long led the fast-casual category. Here are the rising taco-focused brands that saw growth last year.

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Shake Shack signs deal to open first units in Central America

Restaurant Business

Grupo Attie-Multifood Enterprises has agreed to open 12 of the fast-casual chain's units in Panama, with the first scheduled to open next year.

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Consumers may be pulling back, but not from Cava, according to Placer.ai

Restaurant Business

The fast-casual chain is one of the last to report first-quarter results on Thursday. This traffic-tracking research firm says visits were up 20%.