Foodable

APRIL 6, 2021

The Fast Casual Nation podcast offers exclusive interviews with experts ranging from top chefs and brand makers to executives and restaurateurs who work in one of the fastest-growing segments of the restaurant industry. Aloha Poke began franchising in 2019. The chain started in 2016, and has expanded to twenty locations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

Limited-service restaurants (those in quick service and fast casual) had a sharp acceleration in their guest check growth, as consumers likely shifted to larger off-premise orders to feed multiple people at home. Fine dining and upscale casual were the worst performing segments during March based on same-store sales growth.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

Pace of recovery for fast casual brands has slowed down considerably, although results continue to be much better than for full-service restaurants. In 2019 we were introduced to the chicken sandwich war, and in 2020 it raged on as chain and independent restaurants added the sandwich to their menus for diners to enjoy.

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Apicbase

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

These restaurants are scaling fast, and quite often venture far beyond their country of origin. Fast Casual Restaurant. Casual Restaurant. Fast Casual Restaurant. Fast Casual Restaurant. Fast Casual Restaurant. The level of quality, service and innovation is high. Oli Oli Poke.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

West African cuisines more broadly are also having a moment in different forms, from fast casual to the fine dining experiences chefs like Balogun advance, throughout American cities. restaurant: Teranga, a counter-service spot which debuted in NYC in 2019. I don’t limit myself to Senegal [in my cooking], and it’s intentional.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Food trucks, pop-up supper clubs, fast-casual restaurants, and brewpubs are all a part of the unique culinary fabric of this country. Learn About Fast-Casual Dining. Fast-casual dining is dominating the restaurant industry, and its growth is expected to continue at a rapid pace in a post-pandemic economy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The fast-casual brand continues to grow amid the pandemic and is on track to open more than 30 restaurants this year. In 2019, Salata completed a rebrand, redesigned its stores and launched its tech suite and Tastemaker loyalty program. With drive-thru equipped buildouts as low as 1,200 sq. Holsom by Yogurtland.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2020

. “As Thanksgiving was celebrated so late in the month, it fell into December for 2019 according to the calendar we use for reporting.” This was the best 2-year growth rate in all of 2019 and the fifth consecutive quarter in which the industry has been able to post positive growth under this longer-term view.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 27, 2020

Having all your best practices documented in one place will reduce errors, speed up training, and give everyone a source of truth—allowing you to put your trust in your employees’ hands and let them do the job they were hired to do. Your restaurant employee handbook should be the place where all systems are laid out.

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Apicbase

MARCH 31, 2023

Immergrün 70 Outlets Vegetarian Fast Casual Germany Immergrün is evergreen food for fresh people. Nordsee GmbH 370+ Outlets Seafood Fast Casual Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, France Not many modern restaurant chains can claim to have been in the business for more than 120 years.

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The Restaurant Times

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

According to a report by RedSeer Management Consulting, cloud kitchens are set to be a $2 billion industry in India by 2024, up from $400 million in 2019. Source: TechCrunch. Secondly, they operate in a fraction of traditional restaurant space, utilising resources more efficiently through optimized kitchen workflows.

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Qu

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

There’s too much data from different sources and in different formats to make it a streamlined system. This is Not a Sales & Marketing Pitch, it’s a Responsibility When I joined Qu in 2019 I was new to restaurant tech and POS. That paper was published in fall 0f 2019.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The online survey of 1,000 Americans was fielded by in September 2019 by Edelman Intelligence for Lightlife to measure perspectives on the plant-based category. 73 percent believe they can get protein from other food sources. 58 percent of parents want to set a “good example” for their kids. “With the D.C.

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Year over year, restaurant delivery sales increased by 46% in 2019. Source: Inventiva. The emergence of the fast-casual category is a good example of this technique; they combine speed and convenience with the experience of dine-in and controlled delivery to offer quick service with a casual atmosphere.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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). Just a few months after Burger King’s successful Impossible Whopper launch in August 2019, the restaurant chain added the Impossible Whopper Jr.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Pizzeria Omaggio Benny Pennello’s Capishe: Real Italian Kitchen Pure Pizza Inizio Intermezzo The Pizza Peel Hawthorne’s NY Pizza & Bar Luisa’s Brick Oven Blaze fast fired Sal’s Pizza Factory Stagioni Luigi’s Pizza True Crafted Pizza Portofino’s Italian Restaurant DeSano Pizza House of Pizza Bisonte Pizza Co.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We also see this gaining traction with consumers similar to how calorie labeling became a major source of information for our personal health. According to research from Technomic , 40 percent of Americans took advantage of takeout and curbside delivery (at both fast casual and dine-in) during the pandemic. Lavu CEO Saleem S.

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EATER

MAY 2, 2023

in 2019), including streaming and retail, amounting to over $200/month. It’s a great source of revenue for us but also ensures a consistent community — a core community of people,” Reeves says. These so-called VIP customers come up often in discussions about restaurant subscriptions, whether it’s fast casual or fine dining.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

JANUARY 22, 2021

That’s three times the amount raised during the whole of 2019. Sourcing and Diligence : After the SPAC IPO the clock starts (usually two years) to carry out an acquisition. “De-SPACing” Fast Acquisition Corp. Announced the acquisition of fast-casual BurgerFi for $143 million in enterprise value in June 2020.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MARCH 19, 2020

It’s amazing how fast this crisis is moving and how transformative and long-lasting the consequences will be globally. December 31, 2019. alone, servicing roughly one million foodservice establishments (source: National Restaurant Association ). More than 170m Americans visit some type of eatery every day (source: TTRA).

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

However, of the job openings filled in 2019, nearly half of them were filled by either new entrants to the workforce or people promoted from other positions in the same restaurant. 65 percent of millennials say they are more likely to go to restaurants that offer locally sourced alcoholic beverages. Q4 2019 Foot Traffic.

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RGU

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In late 2019, we conducted a survey of nearly 500 Gen Zers and found that restaurants may need to rethink their approach to customer engagement because their tried-and-true millennial marketing tactics won’t work on Gen Z—and may even deter them. In 2018, Gen Z placed 552 million food service delivery orders.

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RGU

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In late 2019, we conducted a survey of nearly 500 Gen Zers and found that restaurants may need to rethink their approach to customer engagement because their tried-and-true millennial marketing tactics won’t work on Gen Z—and may even deter them. In 2018, Gen Z placed 552 million food service delivery orders.

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RGU

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In late 2019, we conducted a survey of nearly 500 Gen Zers and found that restaurants may need to rethink their approach to customer engagement because their tried-and-true millennial marketing tactics won’t work on Gen Z—and may even deter them. In 2018, Gen Z placed 552 million food service delivery orders.

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EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Instead, they began looking to street stalls, pubs, and casual bistros for culinary inspiration. But the veggie scene is evolving fast, as evidenced by a growing number of vegetarian and vegetarian-friendly eateries. The mood: Wooden tables and unfussy design keep things weeknight-casual. Rasoterra , Carrer del Palau 5, 08002.

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EATER

JUNE 28, 2021

Connors, who recently managed two popular fast-casual restaurants in Portland, recognizes that as consumer behavior shifts toward convenience — and as restaurant business models shift to keep up — it will be difficult (if not impossible) for restaurants to survive without establishing a presence on delivery platforms.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2021

March restaurant sale surged 36 percent year-over-year and nearly reached 2019 levels. “We are seeing sign-on bonuses at fast food and fast casual locations, something never seen before in the industry. He got creative on how to source employees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Guests will expect to know every aspect of sourcing and meal preparation, which will disrupt traditional back-of-house systems with technology that connects the farm to the food. In the short term, it’s QSR that will experience labor improvement, then fast-casual. Restaurants will become increasingly casual.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

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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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Looking at data sources that include foot traffic data and credit card translation data, the paper analyzes restaurant demand in every county in the U.S. Additionally, the results indicate that the negative effect of COVID-19 was smaller for fast-food restaurants compared to full-service establishments. Shopping malls.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2021

Consumer spending at restaurants was up +32 percent in the April-May-June 2021 quarter compared to the same quarter last year, and for a pre-pandemic view, flat compared to the same quarter in 2019. Despite the gains, FSR dine-in visits are down -37 percent from the second quarter of 2019. foodservice industry. “The U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Ike’s Love & Sandwiches is ranked #12 on Fast Casual’s Movers and Shakers 2021 list. Ike’s appointed industry veteran Adam Rinella as Vice President of Development to help the booming fast casual brand reach even more markets. Rinella is skilled in bringing restaurant ideas into reality.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

“Fast food options usually fall into two buckets: fast, healthy, and unaffordable, or fast, unhealthy, and affordable and nothing in between. TISSL’s client portfolio ranges from independent coffee shops through to pub groups, fast food operations and Michelin starred restaurants. AdTheorent, Inc.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Fast-food chains, grappling with economic pressures, embraced self-service kiosks, while the rise of secure mobile payment platforms responded to the imperative of enhancing transaction security. Consumers started to pay attention to the 40 percent increase in the average QSR check ( compared to 2019 ).

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MAY 26, 2021

Starbucks’ traceability tool (which employs blockchain technology for the tracking process) launched this year to allow customers to learn about the origins of their coffee and to comply with responsible sourcing. alone during 2019 (across industries). Global Trends Affecting the Foodservice Supply Chain. Driver Shortages.

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Single Platform

AUGUST 3, 2018

If everybody at a fast-casual restaurant pays with a card, the line will move much faster. The same is true if customers pay with their smartphone using an app like LevelUp , which also helps them accumulate rewards points (plus, mobile payments are forecasted to grow to $142 billion by 2019 ).

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Single Platform

DECEMBER 21, 2018

I’ve done some research on what the top food mags, sites, and experts are saying about the restaurant & food trends for 2019. Read on for my picks for the Top 5 Food Trends for 2019. Middle Eastern food has even made its way into fast casual, with chains like Roti growing rapidly. Wild, Wild Hummus. Interested?

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