Goliath Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

He owns several fast-food franchises, including Krispy Kreme and Papa Johns, where he also serves on the board of directors. Additionally, he launched Big Chicken, a fast-casual concept that combines his love for comfort food with high-quality ingredients.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining. Infusing AI into the content and analytics mix has also sparked conversations with restaurant leaders on how to scale operations and determine how fast content can be produced and updated. Data, Data, Data.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

based architecture and design firm / /3877, newly-available real estate offers prime locations and cheaper rent for fast casual restaurants such as taco shops and upscale burger joints. Even with the closure of some chain restaurants, fast food and convenience will always be a prevalent part of the industry landscape.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Guests are dining out more often than last year and and rewarding great service, with the highest tips at bars and fine dining restaurants, according to hospitality industry data from Lightspeed Commerce Inc. percent) than they do in casual restaurants (16.5 percent at fast casual restaurants. percent, from 16.93

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 9, 2025

And for more casual outdoor setups – think outdoor bars, beer gardens, or counter-service patios – QR code ordering is a no-brainer. They still want fast, friendly, accurate service and they expect tech to support that, not get in the way. Fewer mistakes, faster ticket times, and higher check averages.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

Fast Food and QSR Value The United States Fast Food & Quick Service Restaurant Market size was valued at US$ 248.8 billion by 2033, according to The "United States Fast Food and Quick Services Restaurants Market Size and Share Analysis – Growth Trends and Forecast Report 2025-2033" from ResearchAndMarkets.com.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When we asked about fast food: 29 percent said they eat fast food frequently. 46 percent said they occasionally dine at a fast-food restaurant. Only five percent said they never eat fast food. 29 percent said they rarely ate at casual restaurants. 29 percent said they rarely ate at casual restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 22, 2025

Fine dining venues benefit from understated elegance through embroidered logos on professional attire, while fast-casual concepts can leverage more dynamic graphics and color palettes to reflect their energetic atmosphere. Strategic use of color should inform uniform design decisions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 18, 2025

When someone goes to a nightclub or live music night at a bar, the expectation is that it will be loud and they may have to shout to be heard. Let’s look at the reasons that full service/fast casual restaurants may have music issues. Music and dining are all about expectations. Either way, it’s a win.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

And fast-food customers Chef Jonathon Sawyer discusses his Chicago restaurant, Kindling, and his latest TV appearance Are we reaching peak chicken tender saturation on menus? 23, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The MilkShake Factory created a house-made Dubai-Style Chocolate Bar that it sells for $5.95. By Patricia Cobe on Jun.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Here are a few examples of restaurants with names that ooze concept: Parm: Casual Italian, known for their Chicken Parm Sandwiches. Umami Burger : Casual burger spot with an empaths on flavor. Conversely, a casual neighborhood sandwich shop may name their sandwiches after local heroes or landmarks. Fast Food Chains.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 7, 2025

Behind the Menu: Smart cross-utilization of products allowed the fast casual to expand its permanent menu without complicating sourcing and operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2021

100 percent of states have Restaurants open indoors and 98 percent of states have Bars open indoors, with some capacity measures in place. velocity in Neighborhood Bars has grown by 447 percent vs the equivalent week in 2020. . velocity in Neighborhood Bars has grown by 447 percent vs the equivalent week in 2020.

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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. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out, but one thing is for sure.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 12, 2025

Planting the flag as "fast-casual plus," the Dine Brands-owned chain has a new unit scheduled to open next week that will reveal the brand's ongoing evolution with a step closer to full service. Look for more action in the bar.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“The challenge – and opportunity – for those in the Casual/Midscale category is to be more nimble so that they can also pivot quickly in response to changing circumstances. Having real-time data about how consumers are engaging with their ads can help them do that.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Now thoroughly destigmatized, more bars and restaurants will include a dedicated non-alcoholic section on their beverage menus. This is a favorable trend customer-centric bars and restaurants will embrace. Non- and low-alcohol options are a great way to increase ticket averages and responsibly upsell.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

Limited-service restaurants (those in quick service and fast casual) had a sharp acceleration in their guest check growth, as consumers likely shifted to larger off-premise orders to feed multiple people at home. Fine dining and upscale casual were the worst performing segments during March based on same-store sales growth.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vetting dining room, bar, and kitchen staff over the next decade will require probing more during job interviews, seeking candidates with more responsible lifestyles, advanced educational aspirations, and other evidence of a disciplined, drug-free work ethic will become even more of an HR imperative. Of course, people will always dine out.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2020

Since most major QSR and fast casual concepts have already made significant investments in boosting their digital and off-premises offerings, many brands have the infrastructure in place to succeed but are looking for ways to keep up with the increase in demand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

Bars and nightlife businesses were among the hardest hit, with consumer interest down 81 percent. Other businesses have seen a surge of consumer interest, including chicken-wing joints (+84 percent), pizzerias (+71 percent) and fast-food restaurants (+55 percent). Christina Norton noted: “Frequent users in the U.S. In the U.K.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

US Foods Springs into Helping Bars and Grills. In other news, US Foods launched its Spring Scoop, “Raising the Bar: The Classics – Celebrated and Elevated.” ” Spring Scoop highlights include: Elevated, Upsell-Worthy Bar-and-Grill Favorites. ” GIG Rebrands Certification Group. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

Quick service and fast casual segments continue outperforming full-service restaurants by a very wide margin. By June, the median company in quick service and in fast casual had increased their number of hourly employees per location compared to their pre-pandemic staffing levels. How Is Casual Dining Doing?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While this has created many new jobs, restaurants and bars are struggling to find the talent to fill these positions. As seen first with many fast casual chains, we expect more differentiated benefits packages to continue to emerge as a way for restaurants to fill much needed open positions. Growth of New Business Models.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2020

People across the nation are voicing eagerness to resume their social activities, and comfortably and confidently return to their favorite bars and restaurants. The dining experience of yesterday, however, with packed houses and quickly rotating tables is looking like less and less of a possibility moving forward.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

Founded in 2006, Just Salad is the fast-casual restaurant industry’s leading proponent of zero-waste practices. White Buffalo Coffee Bar in Weatherford, Oklahoma. “I would like to congratulate our franchisees, operators and team members on a tremendous quarter,” said Coolgreens CEO Robert Lee.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2022

"Like so many industries, full-service and fast-casual restaurants are feeling the impact that inflation is having on their business and guest count. Coming out of the pandemic and into an inflationary period, the bar has been raised in terms of diner expectations. Everything matters. Everything matters."

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Restaurant segments represented include fine dining, casual dine, fast casual, quick service restaurants and bars. The survey group included 418 restaurant operators and 1,500 restaurant patrons who had visited a restaurant two or more times per month prior to COVID-19.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

"The Great Resignation" that ramped up over the summer saw more than 706,000 food service workers leave their jobs in restaurants, dining facilities, bars, and hotels during May alone. Portillo's, the fast casual chain known for its hot dogs, increased hourly rates in a handful of markets and extended $250 hiring bonuses.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Fine dining establishments may require staff to have in-depth knowledge of each dish, including wine pairings and ingredient sourcing, while a fast-casual restaurant may focus on quick service and consistent food prep. Let’s say you run a fast-casual restaurant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2021

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features restaurant industry year-end totals, how restaurant labor is evolving, fast-food brand intimacy and top cities for locavores. Top Fast-Food Brand Intimacy. An Unpopular Year. Doing without is no longer an option.” ” To access the report, click here.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 3, 2024

Type of Restaurant Adults 18+ Fan of Mocktails Enjoy Mocktails Chain Restaurant 32 percent 54 percent 39 percent Local Restaurant 61 percent 46 percent 59 percent They are also much more likely to say they Frequently or Occasionally dine at every type of establishment from Fast Food to Bars.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2023

According to the Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Art , fast-casual eateries and fine-dining restaurants average between 10 and 40 employees. Treat them and other non-imbibers with a bar that makes mouth-watering mocktails to show them they are valued as much as the colleague on his third Fernet. Make them feel special.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2021

Spanish Diner in New York supersizes their specials on a wall-sized slide frieze above the bar, inviting your eye around the well-appointed space and up to the gloss black ceiling (also the underbelly of the neighborhood’s famous High Line). To work fast, work in parallel to define what we’ll do and how we’ll do it.

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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. Most popular items searched: while restaurants and bars were closed, we can see that diners are searching for a way to bring home the full dining experience. pinot grigio.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Fast food, fast casual and sit-down restaurant apps have seen the biggest jump since last April. Orders from fast food apps increased 38 percent, fast casual apps increased 71 percent, and sit down restaurants increased 88 percent. 86 percent have ordered directlyfrom a restaurant app in the last six months.

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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. Ike’s appointed industry veteran Adam Rinella as Vice President of Development to help the booming fast casual brand reach even more markets. JINYA Ramen Bar is set to bring its bowls to the Hoosier State.

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