Black Box Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Despite the declining guest counts, the primary driver behind the industry’s sustained increase in sales remains the unusually high average check growth. Leading the industry in average check growth during October were casual dining and quick service, while the segments with the smallest increase in check were fine dining and upscale casual.

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Restaurant Engine

JUNE 26, 2024

1: Chipotle With more than 3,000 restaurants, this fast-casual chain is nearly a household name. Diners can depend on their healthy, fresh food for dining in or takeout. When it comes to brand identity, Chipotle sets itself apart and is know for its wholesome food and dedication to sustainability. They have focused menus.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

QSRs Shift Focus from Slow-Paced Dining to Swift, Transactional Experiences Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are reimagining their dining spaces to prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization over traditional, slow-paced dining experiences.

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The Rail

MAY 15, 2024

As a result, the demand for quick and convenient dining options has been met. Peer into counter service restaurants, from fast food chains to trendy eateries, which play an active role in the restaurant industry. It’s perfect for a quick bite, personal dining experience, or when guests are on the go.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 2, 2024

Restaurant leaders representing nearly 3,700 QSR, fast casual, casual dining, and fine dining locations shared 2024’s top challenges and opportunities alongside plans for investment in back-of-house technology, increased sales, and team training, benefits, and support.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 23, 2020

Live-work-dine neighborhoods do not generate enough outside traffic to sustain a business if it is not designed correctly” — Daniel Reed Hospitality 2. Keep in mind what everyone else is doing, walk the fine line between ground breaking and comfortability. Fine dining, fast casual, etc.)

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Whether you want Asian, Italian, or American, and whether you want a fancy, high-end meal or a casual, rowdy meet-up, food in Ann Arbor doesn’t disappoint. Knight’s Steakhouse is a family-friendly, casual dining experience that is accessible to all budgets. You then pick from a list of Batidos, or tropical fruit milkshakes.

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Future Food

JUNE 27, 2023

The internal communities of our workplaces and assets can look out and connect with visitors and communities with a fine-grained F&B retail strategy to meet the needs of occupants and visitors with a diverse range of food and beverage options, catering to different tastes, dietary preferences, and cultural backgrounds.

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The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 24, 2022

Quick-serve, fine-casual, and fast-food restaurants have taken to restaurant ordering apps faster than full-service restaurants. In addition, table ordering systems such as tablets have also streamlined payment processing, while self-service kiosks have increased the convenience of dining out (can increase your sales). .

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Black Box Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Despite the declining guest counts, the primary driver behind the industry’s sustained increase in sales remains the unusually high average check growth. Leading the industry in average check growth during October were casual dining and quick service, while the segments with the smallest increase in check were fine dining and upscale casual.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Intriguingly, it appears fast casual restaurants have started taking back the customers they lost to quick serve restaurants since the pandemic, with consumers visiting fast casual restaurants more often, up to 24 percent from 21 percent in May. Loyalty programs are most popular for fast food. Fast Casual.

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EATER

JUNE 23, 2020

So I think restaurants will play a role in the provision of food as well as entertainment and occasion-dining, in a way that food shops or supermarkets have done typically. Matthew Kang, editor of Eater LA: I do think the way that people dine is going to be different. The evolution of traditional fine dining will only accelerate.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features a gloomy start to the new year, dining trends for 2020, the importance of discounts, holiday gift card sales results, delivery frustrations, soda curiosity and a consumer culture report. Family and Upscale Dining Outperformed During the Quarter.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 23, 2021

city, with neighborhood pizza spots, fine-dining classic Italian, and even pizza food trucks serving up numerous styles of fabulous pies. They are a dine-in restaurant, which prides itself on welcoming and attentive service for its customers. Charlotte pizzas are as diverse as any major U.S. Pure Pizza.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

Limited-service restaurants (those in quick service and fast casual) had a sharp acceleration in their guest check growth, as consumers likely shifted to larger off-premise orders to feed multiple people at home. Fine dining and upscale casual were the worst performing segments during March based on same-store sales growth.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 9, 2021

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! Make a Reservation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

The ability for restaurants, particularly full service restaurants, to operate at total capacity, consumer comfort with dining in, and more business and recreational travel will aid recovery at the dinner daypart. ” The State of Casual Dining. diners, ages 18+, who dined out at least once per week prior to the pandemic.

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Apicbase

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

You may not have noticed, but some brilliant restaurant chains and franchises are shaking up the dining culture of the Nordic countries, both with new concepts and by revamping old ones. These restaurants are scaling fast, and quite often venture far beyond their country of origin. Fast Casual Restaurant. Oli Oli Poke.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 23, 2021

However, their focus on upscale communal dining offers a unique experience among restaurants. La Ciccia is a relatively affordable place for casually elegant dining in San Francisco, and I appreciated that when I dropped in for an early dinner. That said, this is not a notably casual dining experience. La Taqueria.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the National Restaurant Association's State of the Indusrty Report, food industry pressures, foodservice opportunities, influencer marketing, foot traffic analysis and the dining-out dollar. Consumer Spending on Dining Out.

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Restaurant Engine

AUGUST 9, 2023

Each time someone dines with you, their food should taste just as good as it did the time before. Tip #3: Showcase Sustainability Research shows customers are more environmentally conscious than ever. So, another way to take your restaurant to the next level is to showcase your commitment to sustainability.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

From the very beginning we worked to attract loyal guests seeking an authentic, family dining experience. With restaurant dining rooms closing unexpectedly and inconsistently from market to market, the industry realized the ability to communicate frequently and rapidly to their customers is critical. Shasta, California.

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Margin Edge

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

If your prime costs range from 60-65% most likely your business is sustainable; however, you won’t have much wiggle room or profit. COGS By Restaurant Type (QSR, Fast Casual, Fine Dining, Bars). Fine dining or restaurants that use specialty products will usually tend to have higher COGS, closer to 30%. .

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Restaurant Business

MAY 25, 2023

The VP of culinary innovation for Untamed Brands infuses fast-casual Taim and Hot Chicken Takeover with fine-dining details.

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Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This historical town offers some great dining establishments to dine in during your visit or enjoy an impromptu meal during your drive through town. With just over 49,000, Harrisburg is a decent spot to enjoy quality cuisine and an excellent ambiance for your next dining experience. Make a Reservation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. “Most QSR and Fast Casual brands have already adopted a digital ordering program.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the latest report from Tripadvisor , which outlinines the road to recovery for the travel and dining industry, restaurants are showing the first signs of recovery, leading the way for hospitality businesses. Around one in six (16 percent) will avoid dine-in experiences altogether in favor of delivery or take-out.

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Black Box Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

With delivery and drive-thru, you can serve those customers you have to turn away because your dining area is too packed. Average check is the measurement of how much guests spend when they dine with you. Understanding what drives profit margins is critical to sustaining a restaurant business. Average Check.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

“Fast food options usually fall into two buckets: fast, healthy, and unaffordable, or fast, unhealthy, and affordable and nothing in between. Combining our backgrounds in tech, automation, and culinary fine dining, we knew we could fill this void to give more people access to healthy, high-quality food.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. First and foremost, most restaurants are going to see a huge drop-off in the number of customers who dine in.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 13, 2021

There is a ninety-minute requested time limit for dining inside the restaurant, plenty of time to enjoy your pizza and wine. A16 is great for a casual weekday date night dinner or a traveler visiting San Francisco and wanting to dine alone at the bar. The vibe here is casual and relaxing; it is a hip spot.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 17, 2021

Neighborhood bars and Fine Dining channels are attracting higher spend post-COVID-19, however CGA On Premise visitors are likely to stay local and seek experiences in the next 12 months. Local Restaurants Leading the Return Over Casual Dining Chains. Casual Dining Chains come in #2 with 52 percent likely to visit.

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EATER

MAY 19, 2020

Dining out right now will come with certain risks. This means that thousands of restaurants, after pivoting to takeout or closing altogether, are now legally permitted to open their dining rooms to customers. And so right now, the decision of whether or not to dine out is personal. America is in the early stages of reopening.

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Margin Edge

MARCH 16, 2021

Plus, restaurant sales are no longer just coming from customers dining on-site. After falling out of the sunny skies of January and February 2020, the restaurant community dusted themselves off and reimagined what dining looks like in a pandemic. Fast Casual vs. Full Service Sales. Regional Sales.

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Embrace the Suck

JUNE 13, 2022

Walls & Roof (Process) = Systems + Strategy + Sustainability. I know it seems like a lot, but once you get the habit of doing this it becomes fast to maintain. Wolf has a large restaurant portfolio that includes catering, casual concepts, airport restaurants, prepared food products, and his fine-dining restaurant group.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That August, the James Beard Awards announced an audit of policies and procedures, which was conducted by various stakeholders, including subcommittee members, the Awards committee, James Beard Foundation staff, and consulting firms specializing in equity, justice, sustainability, and awards protocols and processes. Leading a Fair Kitchen.

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Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 8, 2021

From the best burger joint to a fine dining restaurant, here are the best restaurants in LA. Chef Michael Cimarusti uses sustainable ingredients from both local areas and international ports. The four-course plus dessert menu creates a curated dining experience. Providence. Make a Reservation.

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