Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2024

Experiential dining, plant-based menus and sustainability were hot topics in the Les Dames d’Escoffier International (LDEI) 2023 Trends Report. Among the findings: Casual experiential dining appeals on many fronts to consumers of varying ages in different parts of the country looking for affordable culinary experiences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 9, 2024

We’ve seen this trend take off at many quick-serve or fast-casual chains, where displays and screens provide entertainment value for patrons as they wait for their meals or decide if they are staying for dessert. Or, in some circumstances, allowing patrons to pre-order their food via these applications without engaging with waitstaff.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

Fast-casual visits overall were down 3.8 The focus on offering a wider variety of prepared and ready-to-eat food items is clearly paying off, as c-stores registered record sales in 2023. An analysis of insurance claims processed in 2024 compared to 2023 shows a 4.4 In December, QSR restaurants overall saw visits decline 2.9

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Key figures on the restaurant workforce include: Roughly 50 percent of restaurant operators in the fullservice, quickservice, and fast-casual segments expect recruiting and retaining employees to be their top challenge in 2022. by 2030.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

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. Vanilla isn’t for everyone In 2023, marketing took a cue from the ice cream parlor, embracing segmentation with the same precision as a sundae artisan.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

What issues have affected the industry over the last five years in the topics of marketing, design, operations, law, finance, technology and equipment? Tableside ordering via tablets, tableside payment, POS systems designed with mobility and flexibility in mind have dominated the market growing out of the fast casual.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

She’s casual, she’s friendly, and it’s with that tone that she has made Indian cooking — and the development of an appreciation for Indian food — accessible for so many people who previously thought it began and ended with curry powder. She is an authority without being authoritative, speaking only from her own vast experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 8, 2024

Q4 Restaurant Trends Toast released its Q4 2023 Restaurant Trends report that examined catering activity around the holidays, large events, cold-weather food and alcohol preferences, and weekly tipping trends. Among the highlights: On or Off Prem Same-store catering transactions increased +71 percent in Q4 2023 compared to Q4 2022.

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EATER

APRIL 10, 2024

Like Johnson’s fast-casual rice bowl restaurant, Field Trip, the food at Bankside was developed with delivery in mind. It was a wild, expensive, and ultimately impractical idea, and in early 2023 Wonder ditched the vans in favor of brick-and-mortar locations, the first opened in February 2023 on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 29, 2020

While many fast casual and QSR restaurants are announcing partnerships with platforms like Uber Eats and Grubhub, not all owners and operators are on board with the third-party delivery trend. According to research done by eMarketer , 23 percent of all smartphone users will use a food delivery app by 2023.

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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. The group plans to grow both Ike’s and Bangin’ Buns through franchising starting in 2023. The team currently operates over 80 Ike’s Love & Sandwiches locations across the United States.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 1, 2022

Advertised as a place for “uninterrupted private meetings between decision-makers and solution providers,” BITAC allows for several in-depth conversations between attendees and suppliers of equipment , furnishings, and technology needed to scale and sustain a restaurant business. Topics: Restaurant Equipment and Technology. When: June.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2024

. “Customers are being forced to make decisions between groceries and restaurants, with full-service restaurant inflation about two times that of groceries in the past year and fast food and fast casual restaurants prices up three times the rate of groceries. Starbucks visit growth is being fueled by the return to office.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. Expect for casual dining, upscale casual and fine dining to have abysmal sales and traffic growth numbers. First, at 2.1

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Since I was already carting all my stuff over to another side of the room, I was like, well, what’s another piece of equipment? She sold the book in the fall of 2023. It led to a somewhat clunky, more complicated approach to writing recipes. Doiron explains. “It It felt like fake cooking.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

His previous experience also includes acting as CFO and controller for numerous hospitality and fast casual brands such as Rubio’s, Carl’s Jr., Fast casual restaurants continue to outpace industry growth and we see a great deal of opportunity for business owners in this urban market.” and Del Taco. John Fuller.

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EATER

MARCH 8, 2024

s Eater Award winner for 2023 Vibe of the Year. Vera’s recently unveiled private dining room, dubbed Ouda Comida, is equipped with its own sound system and sleek bohemian look. I was going to dinner with my friends, and wanted to look elegant and casual at the same time. It should come as no surprise then that Vera was D.C.’s

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EATER

MAY 9, 2023

Though restaurants should be well-equipped in most regards, Shack Egan recommends asking up front what additional rentals you might need. Restaurant openings don’t leave much time for wedding planning, so it wasn’t until January 2023, over a long weekend in Mexico City, separated from work by thousands of miles, that we could finally focus.

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SpotOn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

There's room for fast food chains, fine dining restaurants, and casual dining restaurants, steakhouses, falafel spots, taco trucks. Contemporary casual restaurants Contemporary casual restaurants are a newer restaurant concept. You probably don't need a reservation to visit nearby casual dining establishments.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

From POS to robotics to commercial kitchen equipment , the landscape is changing and the B2B approaches to get to the end customer are changing as well. There were a number of acquisitions evenly distributed across segments, from snacks to fast casual to full-service and QSR.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

COGS Are Key as Hiring Pressures Decline In 2024, 16 percent of operators say analyzing and managing the cost of goods and services and supplier and vendor management are top pain pointscompared to 12 percent in 2023. In fact, between 2019 and 2023, FAFH spending grew by 13.52 percent, while FAH increased by only 3.37

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Wages have risen roughly 13 percent since early 2023, leveling out at $13.62 In fact, more than 1,400 people became ill from contaminated food in 2024, doubling hospitalization rates compared to 2023, according to the U.S. Core indicators, like employees working and hours worked, have been bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels.

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Mad Mobile

MARCH 8, 2024

They’re durable and flexible enough to go from fast casual to fine dining. Card readers – Many of the iPad cases designed for use in the restaurant industry come equipped with swipe, tap, and chip reader functions built in. In 2023, investigators discovered that hackers accessed customer information from over 71,000 users.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2019

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. “With the D.C.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 2, 2024

Restaurant leaders representing nearly 3,700 QSR, fast casual, casual dining, and fine dining locations shared 2024’s top challenges and opportunities alongside plans for investment in back-of-house technology, increased sales, and team training, benefits, and support.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2020

The best performing segments during Q4 (and those that achieved positive same-store sales growth) were family dining, fine dining and upscale casual. Upscale casual also achieved positive sales growth during Q4 but experienced a small dip in sales for the entire year compared with 2018. For more information, click here.

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SpotOn

DECEMBER 30, 2024

At the beginning of 2024, the NRA reported that 73% of operators expected profit to be less or the same over the year, with 38% saying they didn't make any profit in 2023. Quick-service restaurants—like cafes, fast food, and fast casual—are estimated to have decent profit margins with lower food and labor costs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2021

A new report from NELSON Worldwide that takes a look at the immediate future of dining and fast-casual restaurants. Respondents continue to view the fast casual and quick service sectors as the greatest areas for market expansion. The Great Restaurant Restart. Plant-based Fish Market Value to Swell 13X Over Next Ten Years.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

Nearly half (47 percent) of diners say they engage with loyalty programs at least once a week, up significantly from just 34 percent in 2023. This year, diners reported spending $54 on average when eating out at a restaurant – up from $48 in 2023. Fast casuals follow with 36 percent prioritizing direct digital channels.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

Within QSRs, fast-casual restaurants led the way, growing transactions by 2 percent in March. State of the Plate Olive Garden is the most popular casual dining restaurant with Americans in 2025, with 19 percent having dined at the Italian-themed restaurant in the past 90 days, according to a new report from YouGov.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Restaurant brands (in four categories including pizza, fast-casual, fast food, out-of-home coffee) representative of each of the quadrant values include: The Loyalty Map Multiple. Business travel is not expected to return to 2019 levels until at least 2023 or 2024. Loyalty Positions in the Restaurant Sector.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2025

Casual dining is on the rise, with spots like Chellas Arepa Kitchen (#5) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Cardelli's Italian Market Deli (#45) in Riverside, California offering budget-friendly options. Cocktails remain a driving force in fine dining and polished casual venues, reinforcing their broad appeal across different segments.

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Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 22, 2025

2023 Market Correction vs 2025 Market Drop Although the tariffs are not expected to directly impact restaurant costs as much as other sectors, the runoff effects of the downturn have affected the revenue of hospitality businesses across the industry. Between July 31st and October 27th, 2023, the stock index fell from 4,588 to 4,117, a -10.3%

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