Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2020

The 31-year-old, fast casual, farm-to-table chain was doing well, prior to COVID-19. Some of Von Hengst’s restaurants have outdoor patios which he predicts will be very popular. “Social distancing will still be maintained outdoors,” he said. And, customers temperatures may be checked upon entry.

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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. 37 percent of restaurants report outdoor dining as their biggest revenue driver during COVID-19. Top Fast-Food Brand Intimacy. An Unpopular Year.

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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. In June, Frutta Bowls’ signed a franchise agreement with SteelCraft, a trendy outdoor eatery concept that uses shipping containers as a restaurant space. White Buffalo Coffee Bar in Weatherford, Oklahoma.

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Franchise Franchising Fast Casual Point of Sale 508

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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2020 Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Food Safety 493

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Guest Experience : As we continue to see staff shortages and high turnover rates in the post-pandemic era, the food and beverage industry will have to focus efforts and resources on creative staff training as well as the fast and effective onboarding of new employees to guarantee a satisfactory guest experience.

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2023 Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Customer Experience 493

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. Egg Combos with choice of breakfast meats. Dickey's in Japan.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

” Creating Multi-Brand Platform of Premium Casual Restaurant Concepts. “The product is superior – bar none – to any other on the market and we are so excited to bring a taste of Hawaii to Tennessee,” Rothwell said. BurgerFi International Inc. 1 coffee hub in Tennessee,” Cody Rothwell.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 1, 2020

Sense360 examined total restaurant and bar foot traffic trends by channel, daypart, weekday, ethnicity, urbanicity, and state vs. national. Fast Food (52 percent). These meal kits help the restaurants move unused food inventory, while blurring the lines between fast casual take-out and grocery ready-to-cook meals.

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2020 Food Safety Online Ordering Guest Recovery 326

EATER

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Back in the summer, reservations platform Resy and its parent credit card company, American Express, helped fund an effort to give modular outdoor dining structures to hard-hit restaurants, focusing first on New York’s Chinatown. Now they are supplying restaurants with outdoor dining structures once again, but with a different flavor.

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Outdoor Fast Casual Dine-in Food Supply 244

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature robots in fast food, virtual education and chef-inspired, plant-based ice cream. In typical Taffer fashion, he takes a no-holds barred approach to instruct these business owners to think beyond getting ready to reopen, and instead prepare for the challenges that lie ahead.

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Mobile Ordering Certification Loyalty Program Kitchen Safety 412

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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Franchise Franchising Food Fast Casual 471

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2021

With new chairs, tables and barstools, the revamped restaurant boasts an upgraded bar look and feel. Despite the lagging global pandemic, the organic fast-casual brand is surging forward with record-breaking sales, franchise development growth, and new guest acquisition and satisfaction.

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Franchise Franchising Sustainability Fast Casual 433

7 Shifts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The Snug is a bar-forward restaurant in San Francisco serving modern California comfort food, cocktails & craft beer offered in chic, comfortable quarters. Outdoor dining One way they evolved their operations was by taking advantage of San Francisco’s new shared spaces program to extend their dining outdoors in order to keep revenue up.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Their enthusiasm for our brand coupled with their deep experience developing successful polished casual and fast-casual restaurant brands in Alberta make them the perfect partners to bring CPK into Canada for the first time. ce is not just a juice bar, it’s truly an experience and a lifestyle,” said Rabkin.

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Franchise Franchising Fast Casual 2019 384

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

QDOBA Mexican Eats® introduced new restaurant formats, top photo, that feature buildouts including mobile-order drive-thrus, walk-up windows, mobile-order pick-up lockers, dedicated curbside pick-up areas, ghost kitchens, and concepts with updated outdoor seating. designed with high-rent urban areas in mind. Holsom by Yogurtland.

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Franchise Franchising Loyalty Program Kitchen Safety 385

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

Taffer’s Tavern has its eyes set on bringing its bar fare andbeverage program to D.C. In the wake of the recent social unrest across the country, Boston’s Pizza Restaurant & Sports Bar (Boston’s) is stepping up to help raise funds and show its support for fellow restaurant industry employees. metro area.

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Franchise Franchising Food Safety Kitchen Safety 422

EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In the last decade, tourist-oriented restaurants, cheesy cafes, and fast food have moved into the town’s Chinese Portuguese shophouses. But mixed in with these are decades-old noodle stalls, casual curry shacks, legendary restaurants, and bustling markets — most of which can be reached on foot, a rarity in Thailand.

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Seasonal Menu Hotels Back of House Front of House 324

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Smart Bar USA Founder Barry Fieldman. Concepts that captured strong market share like fast casual chains will continue to outpace growth in full service locations. Concepts that captured strong market share like fast casual chains will continue to outpace growth in full service locations.

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2022 Food Supply Back of House Kitchen Safety 450

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

JULY 1, 2020

In addition, the cheaper price tag that most fast food outlets offer may be appealing to consumers tightening their budgets amid the pandemic. Across the US, we’ve seen reopenings followed by spikes in COVID cases following visits to bars and restaurants that are not maintaining social distancing and requiring masks.

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2020 Travel Food Safety Consumer Goods 450

7 Shifts

JUNE 4, 2021

Fast-casual: 28.9%. Casual: 33.2%. Upscale casual: 30.4%. This can be as a whole or segmented by indoor/outdoor, bar/dining room, or whatever fits your restaurant. What Percentage Should Labor Cost Be In A Restaurant? Pizza: 31.3%. Recommended Download: Free Restaurant Labor Cost Calculator Template.

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Point of Sale Inventory Employee Relations Customer Service 416

Restaurant Clicks

MAY 6, 2025

The casual dining atmosphere, along with options for takeout and delivery, makes it a convenient choice for both locals and visitors. 27 Heavy Smoke BBQ Source: Instagram Heavy Smoke BBQ in O’Fallon, Missouri, has earned a strong following by blending competition-level barbecue with a casual, welcoming setting.

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Seasonal Menu Back of House Fast Casual Sourcing 78

EATER

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In earlier times, I’d have peppered each map point with essential info like hours of operation and must-order dishes; now, I was looking up intel like outdoor seating, takeout quality, and, most crucially, whether or not a place had managed to stay open at all. What is a bar without a bartender? It’s just, well, being home.

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Travel Food Back of House Front of House 354

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2020

. (“DRH”), one of the largest franchisees for Buffalo Wild Wings® ("BWW") with 64 sports bars across five states. ICV will combine the remaining DRH and JK&T Wings sports bars, which it acquired in October 2019, making the combined company the largest franchisee of BWW. Visit BuffaloWildWings.com.

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Franchise Franchising Customer Experience Customer Service 365

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

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. “GFG sees this untapped segment as the biggest opportunity in the restaurant business.

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Franchise Franchising Fast Casual Point of Sale 307

Restaurant Clicks

JUNE 27, 2021

A casual seafood restaurant serving up spectacular food, Quarterdeck has so many fingerlicking good options. Open and airy, featuring floor to ceiling windows, their outside patio not only has an outdoor bar that is popular, it can host guests around their comfortable fire pit tables. The star of their show? Their crabs!

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Fast Casual Reservations Casual Outdoor 148

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

“Fast food options usually fall into two buckets: fast, healthy, and unaffordable, or fast, unhealthy, and affordable and nothing in between. Degel opened his first Atlanta-area location in 2016 in suburban Duluth with total indoor/outdoor seating for 150, including an 80-seat outdoor patio. AdTheorent, Inc.,

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Food Truck Customer Service Customer Experience Front of House 317

Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Agustin Kitchen TallBoys Culinary Dropout Union Public House Prep & Pastry Signature Grill with Patio Dining Black Bear Diner Tucson Saguaro Corners Restaurant & Bar Five Points Market & Restaurant Prep & Pastry Nook Snooze, an A.M. Best Brunch in Tucson. Philip’s Plaza.

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Online Ordering Café Fast Casual Outdoor 148

Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 17, 2021

If you’re looking for delicious sushi in Dumbo, I have compiled a list of my favorite spots that range in dining experiences from casual takeout spots to fine-dining Japanese bistros. Saketumi Asian Bistro Iron Chef House Kyoto Ozu Japanese Cuisine & Lounge Hibino KI Sushi Taiki Daigo Hand Roll Bar. Best Sushi in Dumbo.

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Front of House Fine Dining Back of House Fast Casual 145

Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 9, 2021

They offer outdoor seating on a first-come-first-serve basis, and it makes for an even better dining experience. Big Fish has a simple decor scheme that includes a raw bar for your enjoyment. The open grill, outdoor patio, and oval bar were all a nice touch. The service is top-notch as well.

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Back of House Front of House Fast Casual Online Ordering 148

Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Proper Social is one of the most upscale and beautiful bars you will find in D.C., Hard Times Cafe is a casual dining environment which has decor that is meant to be reminiscent of a chili parlor during The Great Depression. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Proper 21 (@proper21dc). with a spacious and modern interior.

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Sports Fast Casual Online Ordering Social Media 140

Sling

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

2) Casual Dining. Casual dining types of restaurants usually share the following characteristics: Customers are served at their table. As a general rule, casual dining restaurants fall between fine dining and fast casual on the “fancy” spectrum. 3) Fast Casual. 3) Fast Casual.

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Fast Casual Fine Dining Food Truck Casual 104

Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Located in East Nashville’s East End neighborhood, Five Points Pizza is a New York-style pizzeria and bar offering a wide selection of foreign and domestic craft beer on draft and in bottles to enjoy with a large slice or a whole pie. This fast-casual artisanal pizza eatery combines community outreach with Nashville’s musical spirit.

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Brewery Online Ordering Back of House Fine Dining 148

Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Originally a 1940’s bar called The Longshoreman, Chef, and owner Michelle Ewan and co-owner Lisa Detwiler kept the name and updated the space to assume a welcoming Brooklyn eatery and wine bar. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hoek Pizza & Bar (@hoek.pizza_bar). Hoek Pizza. F&F Pizzeria.

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Front of House Online Ordering Mobile Ordering Website Management 145

Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Whether you’re at a bar, restaurant, music venue, street corner, or even the airport, you’ll see a live musical performance. Outdoor attractions abound, from the hike and bike trail on Lady Bird Lake to the city-wide Green Belt to Austin’s beloved Barton Springs Pool. Multiple locations Visit Website.

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Fine Dining Online Ordering Reservations Front of House 146

Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Walkers Grill The Fieldhouse TEN The Burger Dive Uberbrew Bin 119 Ciao Mambo Juliano’s Restaurant Bernie’s Diner Jake’s Bar & Grill Bistecca at the Granary Bistro Enzo Montana’s Rib & Chop House Jake’s Downtown Cafe Zydeco Montana Brewing Company Tao New Asian. Jake’s Bar & Grill.

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Online Ordering Fine Dining Fast Casual Back of House 179

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2020

In addition to virtual kitchens meeting lower labor costs, they also offer a fast-track to opening, with a location able to begin serving in just one month. Virtual kitchens handle food delivery and have additional staff at the facility, so the barbecue brand will only need to employ a limited number of team members. Pieology in China.

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Franchise Franchising Kitchen Safety Food Safety 474