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Need to Reach New Customers? Step Outside the Box

Modern Restaurant Management

Who among us hasn’t ordered food through a convenient mobile application, with menu choices ranging from not just quick-serve or fast-casual restaurants, but convenience stores as well? Wendy’s , for example, recently announced it would scale back plans of opening 700 ghost kitchens to between 100-150 by the end of 2025.

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Restaurant Chain CEOs Are Quitting or Getting Fired…

Aaron Allen & Associates

Restaurant Advisory Services … BUT SOME CASUAL DINING RESTAURANT CEOs ARE USING THE RIGHT STRATEGIES TO BOOST SALES… The casual dining sector recovered in 2023, and many chains recorded healthy same-store sales growth (leading the pack were Texas Roadhouse, Maggiano’s, and Kura Sushi USA). And restaurant IPOs have clear cycles.

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Menu Innovation and Technology Proving Instrumental In Navigating The Road To Success For Papa John’s

The Restaurant Times

Tapan also founded Talli Turmeric® – a hugely popular polished casual dining brand serving authentic Indian food, located in Mumbai, India. . As a result, the technological and investment shifts that were forecasted to take place in the F&B industry around 2025, are already happening today. .

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

Modern Restaurant Management

The goal is to work with health care systems all over the country and help them commit to 50 percent plant based daily offerings by 2025. Virginia Mason Memorial Hospital in Washington didn’t offer any plant-based entrees before working with the HSUS; now, approximately 50 percent of the café and patient menu items are plant-based.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Sandwiches Up North and Taco John’s Gets Aggressive

Modern Restaurant Management

She first served as senior internal audit analyst at Yum! 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. She also worked in Yum!

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