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Raw and Ready: Growing a Healthy Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

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. In 2005, I stopped doing that and started working on building a private equity fund focused on emerging brands in the European fashion design industry.

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How Restaurants Are Evolving in 2021: New Business Models

7 Shifts

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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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-May 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

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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12 Trends That Will Impact the Restaurant Industry in 2021

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant marketing strategy, design, and internal systems will evolve for independents and chains alike in the coming year. Historically, restaurants have been slow to adopt innovative technology. Internal Systems and Restaurant Design Will Evolve. Innovators will find their own way. The pandemic changed that.

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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their opinions on what we can expect in 2021. And three, above all, we see the need for digital marketing automation continuing and growing into 2021 and beyond. In 2021, we will see a dip in customer satisfaction. Here are their responses.

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Restaurant Industry Outlook for 2021 – Looking Ahead to Better Days

The Restaurant Group

2021 Restaurant Industry Trends. After nine months of adapting to a new normal, here is our restaurant industry outlook for 2021 : 1. As part of our 2021 industry outlook, we foresee flexible seating and modified dining remaining part of the industry trends for the foreseeable future. Takeaways for the 2021 Industry Outlook.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Modular Chicken and 2020 Year-End Results

Modern Restaurant Management

Golden Chick’s modular restaurant design will feature a drive-thru as well as an area for online order pick-ups in a 1,920-square-foot space. Dave’s Hot Chicken is spicing up its 2021 franchise development strategy. 2021 will be big for us as we branch out of California and make our entrance into the Midwest and East Coast.”

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