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Patio Power: Strategies for Optimizing Outdoor Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

Discover how handheld POS devices and QR code ordering are transforming outdoor spaces into efficient revenue engines. What details should operators pay attention to when setting up a patio for dining? How can operators optimize their outdoor dining for efficiency? Put simply, if it matters inside, it matters outside too.

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‘Repurposed Spaces Offer Three Key Advantages for a Fast-Casual Brand: Cost, Time, and Customers.’

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With big-box retailers closing up shop, more than 140 million square feet of desirable retail space has become available, presenting the opportunity for restaurants such as fast-casual concepts to expand their businesses. In more recent years, there's been a wider adoption of fast-casual concepts. Has it evolved?

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The Next Big Bite: Bold Dining Trends and Concepts to Watch in 2025

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Remember when food trucks redefined street food in the early 2010s or when small plates turned casual dining into an adventure of endless flavors? In 2020, dining as we knew it disappeared overnight. Dining rooms sat empty, and the once-bustling hum of busy kitchens fell silent.

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Streamlining Restaurant Renovations with 3D Modeling and Design Technology

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How Design Technology Improves Space and Guest Experience Every square foot counts when redesigning a fast-casual eatery or a fine dining venue. For customers, 3D design tools allow the creation of warm and interactive dining spaces since restaurant operators can try different seating arrangements.

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Hungry for Growth: The Restaurant Industry in 2022

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While restaurants continue to mitigate impacts caused by COVID-19, many have pivoted and found new ways to redefine the dining experience. 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.

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How Our New Concept Brought In 30 Percent More Guests

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Courtesy of Sabine Caf Rich Fox of Sabine in Seattle says leaning more casual has helped his bottom line A version of this post originally appeared on May 28, 2025, in Eater and Punchs newsletter Pre Shift , a biweekly newsletter for the industry pro that sources first-person accounts from the bar and restaurant world.

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YEA: Restaurants Showing Resiliency with New Openings

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In addition, pop-up restaurants (100 openings) and seafood markets (84 openings) experienced an increase in openings compared to the same period in 2019, catering to consumers' interests in novel ways to dine and shop for food outside of traditional restaurant experiences.

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