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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-May 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

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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17 Wilmington Restaurants to Check Out This Week

Restaurant Clicks

They offer outdoor seating on a first-come-first-serve basis, and it makes for an even better dining experience. The setting is festive, but you can also enjoy a casual date as well. Feby’s was a great place to stop by and enjoy fine dining with a casual feel. Get there fast! The service is top-notch as well.

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Conquering the challenges of ‘Family Dining’

Future Food

My wife and I were exceptionally lucky with our first born, as we could essentially take him anywhere - breakfast, lunch or dinner - from a busy café to a smart casual restaurant, and enjoy a meal out without a gripe. Where the obvious challenge lies is that within a family there are vastly contrasting need states at play.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-July 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Frequency is rising fast too, and 43 percent of US consumers plan to visit venues more often than they did in 2019—nearly twice the number who will go out less (22 percent). ” The State of Casual Dining. Satisfying the appetite : Overall, the casual dining sector is seeing a big recovery in visits. Check values up.

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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. By June, the median company in quick service and in fast casual had increased their number of hourly employees per location compared to their pre-pandemic staffing levels. How Is Casual Dining Doing?

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All the Kitchen’s a Stage

EATER

Since then, the trend has infiltrated the restaurant industry at all levels: Not only have fine dining restaurants come to embrace the open kitchen, but fast-casual eating is all but defined by the act of watching your Chipotle burrito or Cava bowl being made to your specifications.

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Top 15 Fort Worth Restaurants with Private Dining Rooms

Restaurant Clicks

Grace’s private dining options include two private rooms with multimedia capabilities to seat 10-48 guests. For larger parties, the restaurant will open the lobby for cocktail parties of up to 200 or seated dinners of 150. While Eddie V’s is a national chain, each restaurant excels in sophisticated cuisine, service, and entertainment.