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What Families Want from Kid-Friendly Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

The fast casual restaurant segment has seen tremendous success and growth in recent years. CREST®, while overall restaurant traffic was down four percent in 2022 compared to 2019, fast casual traffic was up nine percent. Why should fast casuals work on improving with young families?

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Quick service and fast casual segments continue outperforming full-service restaurants by a very wide margin. Other leisure-related categories affected the most included travel, cruises, lodging and airlines. How Is Casual Dining Doing? These percentages have held relatively flat for the last four weeks.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

As consumers continue to seek out unique dine-in experiences, the bar and restaurant operators who capitalize on live sports and entertainment at their establishments to drive traffic and retain repeat customers will have a leg up. This started years ago with the fast casuals, but everyone will start to adopt beverage innovation widely.

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What Trends Are You Seeing and What Can We Expect to See More of in 2022?

Modern Restaurant Management

Our restaurant of the future is designed to benefit guests, employees and franchisees, with a new external design and a reimagined kitchen that will make it easier for us to serve hot, delicious food quickly for frictionless guest experiences, and we expect to see a lot more of that next year. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

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47 Scaling Restaurants In Scandinavia To Keep An Eye On (Because They Are Awesome)

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These restaurants are scaling fast, and quite often venture far beyond their country of origin. Fast Casual Restaurant. Casual Restaurant. Children are especially welcome, with kids menus and games to entertain them. Fast Casual Restaurant. Fast Casual Restaurant. Fast Casual Restaurant.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-January 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

The best performing segments during Q4 (and those that achieved positive same-store sales growth) were family dining, fine dining and upscale casual. This segment is also driven by expense account users that continue to entertain their clients as a key business strategy. Family and Upscale Dining Outperformed During the Quarter.

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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. Finding and retaining employees remain among the biggest obstacles operators struggle with. Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. First, at 2.1

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