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The Tech Revolution Reshaping the Restaurant Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

Fast Casual Dining Navigating a delicate balance between convenience and culinary craft, the fast-casual dining sector shines as the industry's hybrid powerhouse, marrying quick service with gourmet cuisine. New entrants face the challenge of creating a flexible framework that combines prompt service with upscale offerings.

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AMERICAN RESTAURANTS – AN INTERESTING EVOLUTION

Culinary Cues

Starting as a raw, not always well thought out movement in the 60’s this became the organic food movement, sustainable practices, recycling and composting, the farm to table movement, and learning about the connections between what we eat and how we feel.

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5 Tips to Take Your Restaurant to the Next Level

Restaurant Engine

If you are a fast casual restaurant, provide recycling bins. Look into composting as well. Many cities have companies that offer you compost bins for food scraps that they pick up each week. The biggest key here is to let your customers know if you are using locally sourced food, if you’re recycling, and/or composting.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. Expect for casual dining, upscale casual and fine dining to have abysmal sales and traffic growth numbers. First, at 2.1

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Restaurateurs, Are You Engaging Gen Z?

Focus POS

While fast-casual is their preferred dining option, 67% of Gen Z also care about the nutritional content of their food. Recycling and composting, selling non-GMO foods, and phasing out non-recyclable plastics are among the other practices Gen Z seek out in a restaurant.

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Brand Diversity and Vertical Integration Strategies

Foodable

The Fast Casual Nation podcast offers exclusive interviews with experts ranging from top chefs and brand makers to executives and restaurateurs who work in one of the fastest-growing segments of the restaurant industry. Barron and Stone explore how some fast casual brands are successfully using an omni-channel marketing approach.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

Tableside ordering via tablets, tableside payment, POS systems designed with mobility and flexibility in mind have dominated the market growing out of the fast casual. This movement toward more sustainably sourced food in both our fast-casual and fine dining restaurants will continue to expand in the future.