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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

Tableside ordering via tablets, tableside payment, POS systems designed with mobility and flexibility in mind have dominated the market growing out of the fast casual. This movement toward more sustainably sourced food in both our fast-casual and fine dining restaurants will continue to expand in the future.

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August Restaurant Performance: Could It Be the Turning Point? 

Black Box Intelligence

In addition, Fast Casual, and Upscale Casual were also successful. On the other hand, the segments with the smallest check growth were those in limited service (quick service and fast casual). So much so that last week the Fed cut the interest rate by half of a percentage point (the highest cut since 2008).

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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

I see flat-fee QSR, hybrid or fast casual restaurants with fixed-price approachable menus of typically unattainable offerings, such as Burger Lobster (lobster) and Sugarfish (sushi, omakase) becoming more popular. For now, it's just a matter of figuring out how we're going to survive.

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