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Week in Review: Fast casual’s good year, Dave's gets sold, El Pollo Loco’s potential buyer and more

Restaurant Business

But it wasn’t quite so bad for fast-casual concepts , which outpaced other categories with 9% growth in 2024, according to Technomic. Fast-casual chicken chains, including Dave’s Hot Chicken, saw double-digit sales growth, while fast-casual pizza continued to falter. By Heather Lalley on Jun.

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Effectively Targeting and Marketing to Gen Z

Modern Restaurant Management

Marketing trends, mobile data insights show that Gen Z has a considerable appetite for restaurants, clean eating, fast-casual, and exciting twists on healthy dining options. Born between 1995-2012, they range from seven to 24 years of age. And wow, does this young generation have some incredible spending power!

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NYC Recovery and BBQ (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this episode of The Main Course , host Barbara Castiglia speaks with Micha Magid, co-CEO of Mighty Quinn’s BBQ, a NY-based Authentic barbeque experience in a fast-casual setting. Along with his brother-in-law, Chris Gourmos, and pitmaster Hugh Magnums, Magid launched Mighty Quinn’s in December of 2012.

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MRM Franchise Feed: CPK in Canada and Real Famous BBQ

Modern Restaurant Management

Their enthusiasm for our brand coupled with their deep experience developing successful polished casual and fast-casual restaurant brands in Alberta make them the perfect partners to bring CPK into Canada for the first time. Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza is heating up the Midwest with a 16-unit development deal.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Bad Ass Gets Bigger and New Prototype for Bagel Boss

Modern Restaurant Management

” Creating Multi-Brand Platform of Premium Casual Restaurant Concepts. News of the agreement comes one month after The Saxton Group announced plans to diversify its brand portfolio with Jaggers, a fast-casual concept created by the Texas Roadhouse Corporation. BurgerFi International Inc. Sankranti Likes Atlanta.

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An Eater’s Guide to Phuket, Thailand’s Island Hotspot

EATER

In the last decade, tourist-oriented restaurants, cheesy cafes, and fast food have moved into the town’s Chinese Portuguese shophouses. But mixed in with these are decades-old noodle stalls, casual curry shacks, legendary restaurants, and bustling markets — most of which can be reached on foot, a rarity in Thailand.

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Hooters Could Be the Next Big Chain to File for Bankruptcy

EATER

In 2017, it launched a fast-casual offshoot called Hoots that served similar food with a more family-friendly (i.e., It also seemed like a response to declining sales: The number of Hooters locations dropped by more than 7 percent between 2012 and 2016. Hooters has attempted to go beyond its controversial image in the past.