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[Data] Fast Casual Restaurant Trends: Sales and Labor

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Coming out of 2020, few restaurant types were better prepared for the new normal than quick service and fast casual. They had streamlined menus, more digital presence than their full-service counterparts, and dining rooms weren't an integral part of the fast casual experience. Fast Casual Labor Numbers.

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Raw and Ready: Growing a Healthy Fast Casual

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The owner of Delicious Raw, a healthy fast casual concept launched in 2013, is looking to grow the brand and create a one-stop-shop for healthy consumables for a broad audience. When I moved to Florida several years back, I first opened a restaurant in Naples that served breakfast and lunch. Where do you see the brand growing?

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Fast-Casual Academia, Climatarian Menu and Ice Auction

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A hybrid grab-and-go market and cafe serves both breakfast and lunch, is tailored to the needs of sizable office buildings and features the best local restaurants in rotation. Our investment community has energized around the launch and we’re looking forward to opening the first of several locations in 2021.”

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How Restaurants Are Evolving in 2021: New Business Models

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From converting to fast casual to offering meal kits to ghost kitchen-driven expansion, restaurants are meeting customers where they are (mostly at-home!), Fast casual is king With dining rooms effectively shut down early last year (many of them still limited), restaurants had to rethink how they would be serving hungry diners.

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How Restaurants Can Remain Competitive in 2021

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We’re not talking about just surviving the pandemic—but thriving through 2021 and beyond, and setting new standards. For fast-casual and quick-service restaurants—no more lines. Once alcohol was legal to serve via takeout, Cali Comfort BBQ took to their audience and polled them as to what kind of offerings they’d like to see.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-June 2021 Edition

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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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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2021 Edition

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Intriguingly, it appears fast casual restaurants have started taking back the customers they lost to quick serve restaurants since the pandemic, with consumers visiting fast casual restaurants more often, up to 24 percent from 21 percent in May. Loyalty programs are most popular for fast food. Fast Casual.

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