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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. But the platform is where the real winners shook out.

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Dynamic Pricing in Fast Food: Profit-Driver or Diner Turnoff?

Modern Restaurant Management

Although dynamic pricing is a staple in industries like travel and hospitality, its application in fast food is uncharted territory. If you visit a casual dining pizza chain near your office, you expect fast service and a good pizza at a consistent and affordable price.

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Raw and Ready: Growing a Healthy Fast Casual

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The owner of Delicious Raw, a healthy fast casual concept launched in 2013, is looking to grow the brand and create a one-stop-shop for healthy consumables for a broad audience. I traveled all over the world and have lived in a number of different countries, and I always had a great appreciation for food and ambiance and hospitality.

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MRM Research Roundup: Destination Dining, Voice Commerce, and the Force of Fast Food

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introduced "Perkins Griddle Go," a fast-casual concept for quick on-the-go meals, in 2024, with the first store opening in late October. Italy dominates as the dream food destination (55 percent want to travel for pasta). Perkins American Food Co. Increasing Competition and Market Saturation The U.S.

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A Matcha Shortage Hits TikTok’s Favorite Brands

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A novice matcha drinker, Lee travels to Japan often and always buys one or two tins. Matcha’s growing global popularity as a casually drunk beverage, as opposed to something ceremonial, has also “come back full circle into Japan” and driven an uptick in domestic interest, Mangan says. They expire very fast,” she says.

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Table for One – Elevating the Solo Dining Experience

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I often travel alone as a result of my career, and business travel is changing too: for many companies, having large numbers of employees traveling isn’t financially prudent – but being a solo diner doesn’t mean our expectations around our dining experience have changed. Cuisine type?

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Food, It Turns Out, Has Little to Do With Why I Love to Travel 

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It’s the people that make a place — but these days, human interaction is hard to come by I used to love to travel. Let me be clear: I absolutely would not and do not recommend frivolous travel. I paid, and was promptly handed my food and thanked with genuine, casual appreciation for coming in. The burrito was excellent.

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