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How Fast-Casual Marketers Can Prepare for 2022 Dine-in Traffic

Modern Restaurant Management

Food that naturally travels well—chicken wings, burritos, Chinese food—was bound to have a leg-up. Smart QSR and fast casual chains like Chipotle and Shake Shack reconfigured their strategies to lean heavily into delivery apps, digital ordering, and loyalty programs. Clean up your online NAP data.

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Innovative Models Keep Restaurant Revenue and Supply Chain Flowing

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Recognizing this shift, Freshii , a fast-casual franchise with hundreds of locations globally, created a corporate partnership that enables companies to offer meal kits and market baskets at a discount to their employees. If restaurants aren’t ordering as much food to serve in house, suppliers end up with a backlog of perishable goods.

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

7 Shifts

Online and Mobile Ordering Systems. Online ordering and delivery are one of the fastest growing aspects of the restaurant industry, up 124% in 2020. Customers are demanding online and mobile ordering, and modern restaurant tech makes it more accessible for every restaurateur. Third-party delivery.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Two

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Additionally, it means enacting ways to incentivize guests to order from a brand’s direct ordering channels, with offers like exclusive items and pricing, to drive in-house digital sales and therefore retain owned guest data. – Noah Glass, Founder & CEO, Olo Looking ahead to 2024, we anticipate more change.

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Why Do Fast-Casual Restaurants Get a Pass on Appropriation?

EATER

White-centered food narratives appear most often at major chains. I’d eaten my fair share of “barbacoa” at Chipotle, where its shredded-beef burrito was my splurge order. This is not to say food can’t, or shouldn’t, evolve. It’s time to hold them accountable. I thought I did. Where have you been eating barbacoa?”.

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Teriyaki Madness Implements Technology to Combat Coronavirus Crisis Fallouts

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As the novel coronavirus outbreak leads to state-mandated dining room closures, many food service franchisors are struggling to maintain business. CEO Michael Haith discusses the innovative strategies Teriyaki Madness is utilizing to deal with the current health crisis.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-May 2021 Edition

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In addition to the emergence of indoor dining, it explores rising competition between fast food and fast casual restaurant brands with COVID restrictions loosening. “The data strongly signals long wait times are a vulnerability for fast food restaurants as they compete for customers. . Fast food reigns supreme.

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