Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Independent restaurants are at a pivotal moment, as the industry confronts multiple challenges including inflation, cost volatility, and extreme weather and adapts to an increasingly complex operating environment, according to the findings of the The James Beard Foundation® (JBF) 2025 Independent Restaurant Industry Report.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

. – Jackie Abril-Carlile, Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts Culinary Instructo r and Executive chef and general manager at North Mountain Brewing Everything Has Changed At the onset of COVID, most fast casual restaurants went from primarily dine-in business to mostly takeout and delivery models.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

2024 By the Numbers and Looking to 2025 Restaurant leaders representing more than 6,200 locations shared 2024’s top challenges and opportunities and their 2025 priorities in Restaurant365's annual industry survey. 2025 will be the year restaurants redefine how they engage with technology. and $18.67

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2025

We were entering the saturated fast-casual burger space and knew we needed to make an impact. There are a lot of challenges facing both new and established brands in 2025. For us, the most rewarding projects challenge us to break through the noise, balance strategy with creativity, and create brands that people connect with.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This trend is not just in fine dining, but though positioning levels – bars/pubs, clubs, smart casual, fast casual, cafés, QSR and right down to impulse. URBNSURF’s opening in Sydney this year merges surfing with dining at RAFI and casual options at Sandy’s, making it a hotspot for both surfers and food enthusiasts.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2023

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 Business

JANUARY 22, 2025

The fast-casual chain's kitchens haven't changed much in 30 years. But 2025 will be the year of equipment improvements to speed throughput and improve the team member experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2021

The National Restaurant Association’s State of the Industry Report found 46 percent of family-dining and fine-dining restaurants added delivery options between March and December 2020, along with 44 percent of casual-dining and fast-casual restaurants. So what’s next? Will these habits stick?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2021

Casual Dining velocity has grown by 158 percent over the same period, suggesting many of the Casual Dining business models were able to maintain sales to some degree through pandemic restrictions. In fact, 30 percent of recent casual dining visitors think there is an opportunity to improve the quality of the beverage offer.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

Pace of recovery for fast casual brands has slowed down considerably, although results continue to be much better than for full-service restaurants. The fast food industry ranked sixth out of the 15 industries studied in MBLM’s Brand Intimacy 2020 Study , which is the largest study of brands based on emotions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A more optimistic economic future as uncertainty decreases Despite current woes, the food and beverage industry is optimistic about its future as predictions for 2025 suggest that concern about economic uncertainty will drop from 20 percent to 16 percent. percent year-over-year, compared to 0.4 percent for QSR restaurants.

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EATER

JUNE 6, 2024

The audience is clued in on the joke; the plot centers around Spurlock raising chickens for his new farm-to-table fast-food restaurant, Holy Chicken. It was eye-opening, and I never thought about fast food the same way again. “Yes, I’m a filmmaker,” Spurlock answers, “and a chicken farmer.”

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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 flip'd by IHOP. Grab-and-go salads and wraps, freshly baked goods and more.

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Squirrel Systems

MARCH 3, 2025

In the fast-paced and ever-evolving restaurant industry, technology is more important than ever. Whether you’re running a fast-casual concept or a fine-dining establishment, embracing the right technology can help optimize operations, enhance customer experience, and increase profitability.

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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. Based on data collected from 6,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S., Respondents continue to view the fast casual and quick service sectors as the greatest areas for market expansion.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The fast-casual brand continues to grow amid the pandemic and is on track to open more than 30 restaurants this year. Seizing an opportunity to revitalize the restaurant industry, Fazoli’s is encouraging challenged quick-service or fast-casual restaurant operators to convert their existing shells into a Fazoli’s.

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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.

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Black Box Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

Comp Traffic Best Region: New England Best Segment: Family Dining Best Cuisine: Breakfast Worst Region: NY-NJ Worst Segment: Fast Casual Worst Cuisine: Sandwich The December 2024 Restaurant Industry Trends + A Year in Review 2024 saw many ups and downs. The standout performers in October were the fast casual and quick service segments.

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EATER

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Fast-forward 40 years to when Walton’s daughter Alice opened the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in 2011, making the town a destination for art lovers. 21c is the official hotel of the film festival, and it books up fast, so plan your visit accordingly.

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EATER

MAY 2, 2023

trillion subscription market , as financial services company UBS predicts the market will be by 2025. These so-called VIP customers come up often in discussions about restaurant subscriptions, whether it’s fast casual or fine dining. And it’s no wonder that restaurants want in on the $1.5

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EATER

JULY 1, 2024

Today those foodways are clearest at takeaways, casual roadside joints that serve homestyle food mostly to a crowd of locals. But other traditions surrounding coconut have faded over the years, as younger generations have moved away from traditional cooking methods in favor of fast food options. Prawns at Moutya.

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Cheetah

APRIL 12, 2021

Even before the pandemic, this was a fast-growing market. Third-party delivery apps have all experienced a massive increase in partner restaurants, with online deliveries reaching $45 billion – a benchmark they were expected to get no sooner than 2025. It now seems that everyone wants what they want when they want it.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2019

We have set a target to save our customers $1bn by 2025, and this investment will accelerate our technology development and business development approach to help achieve this ambition.” 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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Black Box Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Fast Casual Dining They have seen a slight traffic boost This is possibly due to customers’ “trade up” from QSR, especially when price differences narrow. Casual Dining Both traffic and sales underperforming compared to QSR and fast casual. 2025 Annual Forecast -3.4% to -2.4% -0.5%

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Foodable

JULY 10, 2020

This is the biggest shift in food since fast casual. In 2021, we will see a smaller group of consumers using third party delivery, and it will continue its decline into 2023.” - Paul Barron “$125 billion is my estimate for 2025 [for fast casual revenue projections].

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Black Box Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Monthly Second Helping: Highlighting Hot Topics in the Industry February 2025 Monthly Second Helping: The Truth About Price in Restaurant Reviews How And Where Guests Talk About Price Restaurateurs may wish it werent so, but price remains a primary concern for consumers in 2025. In Fast Casual it is 8.6% year over year.

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Future Food

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Burnside Village will be leveraging an enhanced and remixed F&B offer as part of their Stage Six expansion (due for completion in early 2025) and will have a balanced approach of the best local F&B operators, with on trend brands and concepts that will support overall footfall growth.

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Future Food

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

By way of a recent example, Mini Gun Burnside Village will be leveraging an enhanced and remixed F&B offer as part of their Stage Six expansion (due for completion in early 2025) and will have a balanced approach of the best local F&B operators, with on trend brands and concepts that will support overall footfall growth.

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Black Box Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Out of the Box: Monthly Restaurant Industry Update Restaurant Industry in Review: Trends from January 2025 JANUARY: BY THE NUMBERS 2.5% This is in the face of headwinds – literal in many cases – driven by the winter storm sweeping across the country, which meant January 2025 marked the coldest start to the year since 2011.

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Foodable

JANUARY 7, 2021

Three Key Points: Fast casual will explode exponentially and overtake QSR by 2025. Tweetable Quotes: “I hope fast casual will overtake QSR in our daily diets… we’re the most unhealthy country in terms of exercise and diet, and we’re the most unhealthy country in terms of heart disease and cancer.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MAY 3, 2024

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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Aaron Allen & Associates

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

consumers say they would order plant-based meat items in quick-service or fast-casual restaurants. The issue for investors is to identify in which plant-based categories to invest, when to do so, and who are the players most likely to have steady and fast growth (avoiding the risk of swings like we’ve seen for Beyond Meats).

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KaTom

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

To restructure its long-term debt, California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July, though the fast-casual chain promised to remain open. Latin America became their new market, and the chain aims to add 50 international locations by the end of 2025 in countries such as Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

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Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a casual yet satisfying dining experience or something that truly dazzles the senses, there’s a restaurant in Napa for you, and I’m here to help you find it. Looking for something a little more casual? Plus, there’s no pretentious dress code in this fast-paced, friendly restaurant. Make a Reservation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

42 of the country’s favorite fast food and restaurant chains still don’t offer a plant-based entrée, according to a report released today by The Good Food Institute (GFI). 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.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

The research found that businesses worldwide – particularly restaurants – intend to experiment more in 2025, especially with customer retention programs like loyalty, as they face the triple challenge of sustained high inflation, shrinking consumer wallets and the need to raise prices across the board. percent in December and 11.3

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Margin Edge

MARCH 6, 2025

February 2025's DMV restaurant sales numbers are here! Scroll down to check out Fast Casual and Full Service sales performance last month.

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