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MRM Research Roundup: Labor Struggles, Holiday Habits, and Food Truck Trends

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Fast-Casual Fast Growth Rising prices in recent years have evidently been good for someone: Fast-casual restaurants. It continues: “And with many fast-casual restaurants upping their convenience games with drive-thrus and other innovations , the distinction between the two segments has become increasingly muddied.”

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MRM Franchise Feed: Randy’s Donuts Plans Rise and Burger King Makes Sustainable Commitment

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Featuring a palette of white adobe and rustic colors, longtime guests will immediately recognize the difference with warm colors balanced with colorful Mexican features. This could translate to an additional 500 to 1,500 metric tons of paper waste eliminated annually across the U.S. On the Border Entryway.

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Americans Can’t Kick the Fried Chicken Bucket

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It was also familiar, a modicum of casual comfort as the omicron wave crested in Los Angeles. Consider the bucket’s design: the cylindrical shape, the waxy exterior, the white paper top with four small half-moon openings — there, ostensibly, to let air and moisture escape and keep the chicken as close to its post-fryer crispness as possible.

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What to Eat at Costa Rica’s Dazzling Mercado Central

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These casual eateries are where you can find some of the best traditional Costa Rican cooking from all over the country. And then, of course, there’s the almighty empanada, that stuffed-and-fried pocket of white corn masa that’s a ubiquitous street snack throughout Costa Rica, and much of Latin America. Gallos and Other Small Bites.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2024

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. “Customers are being forced to make decisions between groceries and restaurants, with full-service restaurant inflation about two times that of groceries in the past year and fast food and fast casual restaurants prices up three times the rate of groceries. between January and May 2024. are using to continue growing.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

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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 Home Essentials.

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Here Are Barcelona’s Best Markets and Everything to Eat in Them

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El Ninot’s straightforward thoroughfares are far easier to navigate than the labyrinth at La Boqueria, and it’s packed with casual, inviting places to get a snack or sit down to a meal. A few stands sell Catalan dishes, like mongetes (white beans) amb botifarra and mandonguilles (meatballs) amb salsa, by weight. Mercat de Sants.

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