Restaurant Business

JUNE 24, 2025

Probably not The Bottom Line: The fast-casual Mexican chain remains a shockingly good value and its first-quarter sales slowdown was not out of the ordinary. 24, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The flexibility of the menu remains a key strength for Chipotle. Among fast-casual chains, the slowdown was more pronounced.

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Lavu

JUNE 20, 2025

The restaurant industry is evolving fast—and at the heart of this transformation is new restaurant technology. In 2025, staying ahead means more than great food—it means leveraging the right tech to boost efficiency, reduce costs, and elevate the guest experience. It’s easy, fast, and efficient.

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Black Box Intelligence

JULY 16, 2025

Monthly Restaurant Trends Review Out of the Box: June 2025 Same-store sales rose 2.0% Only three of the past 22 months have posted stronger sales growth results than June 2025. The standout result in the June 2025 Restaurant Industry Trends? in June, making it the industry’s strongest month since January. Comp Sales -0.9%

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Lavu

JULY 18, 2025

Opening a restaurant in 2025 is exciting—but without a clear roadmap, it’s also risky. Whether you’re launching a fast-casual spot or a fine dining concept, a solid restaurant business plan is your foundation for success. What are the essential steps to start a restaurant in 2025?

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 24, 2025

24, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Puttshack is one of the concepts in the Emerging portfolio, which focuses on technology-fueled experiential restaurants. News Emerging Brands technology Lisa Jennings is a veteran restaurant industry reporter and editor who covers the fast-casual sector, independent restaurants and emerging chain concepts.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features dining trends, hiring trends, tech trends, brunch trends, alcohol trends, and egg prices. American Diner Trends Despite a higher cost of living, the average consumer’s dining habits are unchanged. markets.

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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. Fast food dominates takeout, with 60 percent of Americans choosing it as their preferred option for ordering meals at home.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 11, 2025

11, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Staff illustration. In addition, Beans & Brews has hired Carrie Cohen as senior manager of digital marketing. Outback Steakhouse parent Bloomin’ Brands has hired Rafael Sanchez as CIO. By Restaurant Business Staff on Jul. And Rachel Day is the new senior manager of social media for the brand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

To avoid hiring shortcomings, Expert Market recommends business owners focus on implementing effective recruitment strategies. This might include offering competitive compensation packages, enhancing workplace culture, and leveraging technology that allows for more efficient hiring processes. percent year-over-year, compared to 0.4

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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

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

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

” The company also hired Kelly Hopper as its new chief financial officer. 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.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 12, 2019

“Salata is on an upward trajectory to become “the” premiere national fast-casual salad restaurant,” said Wheeler. Nathan’s Famous, Inc, hired two industry veterans, Erik Mallon and Jim Hicks, to bolster its franchise sales and development teams. A rebrand (June). A new tech suite (September).

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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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KaTom

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

From tens of thousands of immediate hires to permanent store closures, the pandemic’s far-reaching impact on pizza chains has been topped with record-shattering successes and halting disappointments. To expedite the hiring and onboarding process, Pizza Hut sped up its training procedures.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

Dunkin’ is announcing that the company has met that milestone early, and is setting a new goal of opening its 1,000th DD Green Achievement restaurant by the end of 2025. “Working with SpotOn allows us to immediately connect tens of thousands of businesses with a large network of lenders and get capital into needed hands, fast.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 11, 2021

We’ve really set ourselves apart as the hottest fast-casual brand out there right now, and there’s no question about it based on the numbers.” “The business is doing incredible things through its careful selection of vetted franchise owners and fast, but strategic, growth. and Canada. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2021

In today’s competitive market of fast casual chicken concepts, our brand has continued to differentiate itself with our made-from-scratch food and our hospitable atmosphere that guests are excited to return to,” said Scott Deviney, CEO of Chicken Salad Chick. Sharma, Group CEO of PT Mitra Adiperkasa Tbk.

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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. Businesses can use this data to guide their plans for hiring, reopening, customer communications and safety measure implementations. Based on data collected from 6,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

” Fast-Craft Restaurant Concept Set to Have 50 Locations Open by the End of 2022. Franchisees who commit to individual and/or multi-unit development agreements for restaurants slated to open from 2022 to 2025 will be eligible to take advantage of the Jimmy John’s incentive deals. Donato's to Expand in the Carolinas.

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Black Box Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

State of the Industry Recap 5 Key Takeaways From Restaurant Industry 2025 Q1 State of the Industry The Restaurant Industry 2025 Q1 Snapshot Webinar by Black Box Intelligence shared important insights. We covered sales, consumer trends, workforce challenges, and what to expect in 2025. Fast Casual also saw small growth.

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