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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

This trend reflects the growing popularity of drive-thru and fast-casual dining, coupled with the demand for digital technologies such as QSR digital signage and QR codes. location debuted in Midtown Atlanta in 2014 and the brand has since opened 11 other locations around metro Atlanta. The first gusto!

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Sweetgreen Wants You to Do Sad Bowl Dinner Too

EATER

But workers are increasingly pushing back on having to go to offices, in no small part because that $15 price tag hits different in whatever our economy is up to now. Sweetgreen moving into the dinner space is yet another example of the eroding lines between fast casual and fine dining, indie and mainstream.

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Fewer Seats, More Shelves: How Restaurants are Preparing for the Takeout Order Boom

LevelUp

Since 2014, online ordering for pickup and delivery has grown 300% faster than dine-in traffic. Now, it is crucial that quick-serve and fast-casual restaurants offer the ability to order online. In addition to increased ticket prices, new diners who order online are more likely to re-order within 60 days than a walk-in customer.

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Are We Growing Too Fast?

Aaron Allen & Associates

While we often say it’s easier to ride a wild stallion (in this case a fast-growing restaurant chain) than drag a dead horse (one that’s not growing at all) — the big question that many restaurant chains need to answer is: how fast should we be growing? Potential Risks of Growing Too Fast. How We Can Help.

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MRM Plant-Based: Trends in Meatless and Copper Branch Expands in Time for Veganuary

Modern Restaurant Management

Pricing and participation vary by location. and Western Europe, recently passed the 65 location mark and in the midst of an impressive worldwide expansion campaign with developers and franchisees which is projected to reach 100 stores by the end of 2020, a plan unmatched in the plant-based, fast casual category.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Fast food options usually fall into two buckets: fast, healthy, and unaffordable, or fast, unhealthy, and affordable and nothing in between. ” Since launching in Toronto in 2014 and in the United States in 2017, Ritual has continued to provide convenience, value and choice to both consumers and restaurants.

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

Modern Restaurant Management

42 of the country’s favorite fast food and restaurant chains still don’t offer a plant-based entrée, according to a report released today by The Good Food Institute (GFI). Meanwhile, sales of meat-free foods have grown an impressive 40 percent from £582 million in 2014 to an estimated £816 million in 2019.