Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

However, according to a 2019 report from the Federal Reserve Bank, 37 percent of all Americans could not cover an unexpected $400 expense without going into debt. Founded in 2006, Just Salad is the fast-casual restaurant industry’s leading proponent of zero-waste practices.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2021

Randy’s Donuts began franchising domestically in the summer of 2019. Despite tremendous initial interest in 2019, the Covid crisis put a halt to all discussions in 2020. Saudi Arabia had a successful pop-up store at the 2019 Riyadh Season and is opening its first permanent store in Jeddah this summer.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

QDOBA Mexican Eats® introduced new restaurant formats, top photo, that feature buildouts including mobile-order drive-thrus, walk-up windows, mobile-order pick-up lockers, dedicated curbside pick-up areas, ghost kitchens, and concepts with updated outdoor seating. designed with high-rent urban areas in mind. Holsom by Yogurtland.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

Adding to the 20 Noodles & Company locations in the metro Chicago market, the ghost kitchen will help reach a new customer base through its digital channels and give the fast-casual brand a presence in-between local locations. "We're “Since we originally announced flip’d in 2019, a lot has changed.

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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

JULY 1, 2020

Yelp’s diners seated data shows significantly more people are dining-in at restaurants. During the peak of the pandemic, the number of diners seated across Yelp Reservations and Waitlist dropped essentially to zero. The average salary for a chef or head cook was $56,310 in 2019. consumers—falling 2.5 percent to 77.9.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 1, 2020

percent of baby boomers used 3PD in the past two months, this reflects a growth of 50 percent compared to the same months in 2019.Sense360's Fast Food (52 percent). These meal kits help the restaurants move unused food inventory, while blurring the lines between fast casual take-out and grocery ready-to-cook meals.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One of the key functionalities within many QSR and fast casual mobile apps these days is the ability to order ahead and select curbside pickup. This puts the customer in the driver’s seat and removes the reliance and uncertainties on timeliness of delivery offered by third parties.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

This investment comes at a pivotal time, as the Indian fast casual has more than 50 franchise and corporate locations in varying stages of development across the United States, including two franchised locations that recently opened in Atlanta and Orange County, California. Curry Up Now Secures Investment. Black Bear Diner Ads Execs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Fast-Casual Fast Growth Rising prices in recent years have evidently been good for someone: Fast-casual restaurants. ” That report finds that, through the first half of 2024, fast-casual restaurants saw visit growth of 3.2 The fast-casual burger chain increased prices by 2.5

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EATER

JULY 11, 2022

From what she’s seeing, the reservations in the city are more in demand now than they were even in 2019. As the Wall Street Journal recently reported , Resy saw its busiest month ever this April, Tock has experienced record-breaking traffic, and OpenTable reported fewer walk-ins at restaurants in 2022 than in 2019.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In 2019, Taco John’s unveiled an updated brand and restaurant design. The drive-thru feature is a first for the fast casual brand, which has previously focused on eat-in cafés and kiosks. “Fazoli’s is at the forefront of the fast-casual Italian category,” Milliken said.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

With this in mind, there were certainly areas, like off-premise, that we knew we needed to fast-track in order to keep providing guests with the First Watch food and experience they know and love. There are only so many seats a given area can support. GJ Hart, CEO of Torchy’s Tacos. Despite that sales are still down?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

From food preparation to the seating and interaction with staff, Taffer’s Tavern will be a worry-free dining experience.” His previous experience also includes acting as CFO and controller for numerous hospitality and fast casual brands such as Rubio’s, Carl’s Jr., and Del Taco. John Fuller.

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Indoor Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

You know you need restaurant promotions to bring in new customers, but when you’re a fast-casual restaurant owner, this is often at the bottom of a very long to-do list, especially if you’re just starting out. Check out these tips to avoid these advertising mistakes we’ve seen fast-casual restaurants make over the years.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 4, 2021

Fast-casual: 28.9%. Casual: 33.2%. Upscale casual: 30.4%. 52% of restaurant professionals named high operating and food costs as one of their top challenges, according to Toast's 2019 Restaurant Success Report. What Percentage Should Labor Cost Be In A Restaurant? Pizza: 31.3%. Food Cost Percentage.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

” Creating Multi-Brand Platform of Premium Casual Restaurant Concepts. ” Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii was purchased in mid-2019 by the Royal Aloha Coffee Company, which then set in motion a strategic plan for the brand’s aggressive growth plans. BurgerFi International Inc. Sankranti Likes Atlanta.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2020

ICV will combine the remaining DRH and JK&T Wings sports bars, which it acquired in October 2019, making the combined company the largest franchisee of BWW. ” In October 2019 ICV made a significant investment in JK&T Wings, a leading franchisee of Buffalo Wild Wings, in partnership with management.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2020

In addition to virtual kitchens meeting lower labor costs, they also offer a fast-track to opening, with a location able to begin serving in just one month. In addition to team members wearing masks and gloves and implementing social distancing, Fazoli’s has enhanced sanitation procedures and limited dining room seating.

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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. the number of customers who leave without being seated or greeted). ” While Ono’s food truck is powered by complex technology, ordering an Ono Blend is simple.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2021

First-time Chicken Salad Chick (CSC) franchise owner Claibourne (Clay) Rogers was introduced to the fast-casual concept in 2015 when she served as an account director at the brand’s public relations firm, Fish Consulting. In the process, Clay and her husband, Nick, fell in love with the concept and its story.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2023

." At least 4 in 10 operators in each of the three limited-service segments — quickservice, fast casual, and coffee and snack — believe the addition of drive-thru lanes will become more common in 2023. For others, outdoor dining and alcohol-to-go are becoming table stakes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

Altering seating arrangements to improve spacing between guests. Khatri said the impetus for self sign-up was simple, “Our goal is to provide restaurants with fast implementation, rather than weeks of back-and-forth, haggling over price or figuring out which option to choose. ” SMG Integrates Reviews.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2019

With global clients already adopting Winnow Vision, from IKEA stores through to the Armani Hotel in Dubai, the demand by companies to drive down food waste in 2019 is increasing. The secure, fast and easy SaaS application gathers, consolidates, standardizes and verifies financial data from all points in a franchised system.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Chicken Salad Chick has 137 locations throughout 16 states predominantly in the Southeast and is a leading fast-casual restaurant company. The fast-casual restaurants also feature homemade pimento cheese and egg salad, as well as fresh sides, soups and desserts. Terms of the deal are confidential.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The top three finishers from each industry have formed a team to compete for the honor of 2019 Aramark Culinary Excellence National Champions. Nearly 52 percent of restaurant professionals rank high food and operating costs as a top challenge in running a restaurant, according to the Toast Restaurant Success in 2019 Industry Report.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to OpenTable, the time that a restaurant expects a table to be occupied can vary from 45 minutes to four hours making it difficult for floor managers to optimize their seating. The transaction is expected to be completed in Q4 2019 or Q1 2020. Waitr announced its partnership with the platform in August 2019.

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Black Box Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2021

Chipotle Mexican Grill introduced Chipotlanes in 2019 and accelerated rollouts of the drive-thru system in 2020. Some may even build express-style locations with no indoor seating at all. Most of the brands announcing modern designs are quick service brands, but fast casual and even full-service restaurants may implement some changes.

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SpotOn

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

  Catering company lunches and take-out and delivery orders through Caviar (acquired by DoorDash in 2019) quickly became 20% of our restaurant sales and added an additional 12% in total revenue. We knew what guests wanted, and our 38-seat restaurant needed to turn as many times as possible.

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Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The restaurant is located near the Westdale neighborhood and is open for early and late seating. Online reservations are recommended to be able to access seating. The vibe is terrific, with lots of open-air seating and geometric-shaped decor. Chi Spacca is open daily for dinner and offers indoor and outdoor seating.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He opened the buzzy 15-seat Brooklyn restaurant, one of Eater’s Best New Restaurants of 2022 , after winning the city over with a dinner series called Iya Eba in the late summer of 2020. “I restaurant: Teranga, a counter-service spot which debuted in NYC in 2019. I spent a week in Lagos with my uncle and one night he took me around.

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Indoor Media

AUGUST 8, 2017

Whether you own a fast casual, quick serve, family dining or fine dining restaurant here is a guide that includes 10 things to consider as you work on your restaurant marketing and advertising plan. Restaurant marketing requires careful use of your budget to get the most butts in seats at the least amount per person.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2021

In addition to the emergence of indoor dining, it explores rising competition between fast food and fast casual restaurant brands with COVID restrictions loosening. “The data strongly signals long wait times are a vulnerability for fast food restaurants as they compete for customers. . Fast food reigns supreme.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2020

The report found that most local economies nationwide slumped in 2019, down 1.3 percent, largely contributed to the 2019 drop and marked the largest quarter-over-quarter decline since 2018. . Uncertainty around trade policy also hindered local economic growth in 2019,” said Carl Bialik, Yelp’s data science editor.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Additionally, the results indicate that the negative effect of COVID-19 was smaller for fast-food restaurants compared to full-service establishments. The index details the average household expenditure for food away from home in 2019 compared for the early part of the pandemic for every county in the U.S. Shopping malls.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2021

million diners seated via Yelp* in May 2021 – the highest ever, surpassing pre-pandemic highs. In fact, the number of diners seated via Yelp was up 48 percent in May 2021 compared to May 2019. They saw a similar increase in diners seated in April 2021. Yelp found more than 3.7 Returning to On Premise.

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KaTom

JUNE 15, 2020

Seating is in their outdoor beer garden, where you can purchase booth brews and chews to enjoy. The name changed in early 2019 when Howell’s partner in the venture, Jennifer Gillie, took sole ownership as Howell reopened the famed Nana’s. DeeLuxe is a fast-casual deeparture from that haute history.

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