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7 Game-Changing Trends That Will Define Fast Casual & QSR in 2025

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Kiosks Are Coming for Fast Casual Here’s a stat that might surprise you: 62% of brands are using or rolling out kiosks in 2025. While QSRs lead at 80%, fast casual is catching up quickly. The takeaway: “Kiosks are coming to fast casual. Done wrong, kiosks create bottlenecks instead of efficiency.

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MRM Research Roundup: Diner Resiliency, Automation Technology, and Egg Prices

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To improve retention, operators are focused on technology that delivers structured onboarding programs, leadership development, and real-time feedback tools. Fast casuals follow with 36 percent prioritizing direct digital channels. Escoffier revealed and ranked the fast food capitals of the U.S.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

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Within QSRs, fast-casual restaurants led the way, growing transactions by 2 percent in March. State of the Plate Olive Garden is the most popular casual dining restaurant with Americans in 2025, with 19 percent having dined at the Italian-themed restaurant in the past 90 days, according to a new report from YouGov.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Bad Ass Gets Bigger and New Prototype for Bagel Boss

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” Creating Multi-Brand Platform of Premium Casual Restaurant Concepts. It started with an overhaul of existing branding, packaging and restaurant design for its national franchise stores and then followed with the recruitment of a seasoned senior leadership team. BurgerFi International Inc. ” Popeyes to Grow in Romania.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Sandwiches Up North and Taco John’s Gets Aggressive

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She has also held leadership roles at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, PepsiCo, and Frito-Lay. ” Mailender added, “On behalf of the entire Checkers & Rally’s family, I would like to thank Rick Silva for his partnership and many years of leadership. They are all in to help us succeed.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Chicken Sale-d Chick and The Dolly Llama and This Is It! to Franchise

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Chicken Salad Chick has 137 locations throughout 16 states predominantly in the Southeast and is a leading fast-casual restaurant company. The fast-casual restaurants also feature homemade pimento cheese and egg salad, as well as fresh sides, soups and desserts. Terms of the deal are confidential.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Krystal Refranchising and Pieology in China

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Cypress will directly manage and coordinate all discussions and distribution of sale materials with potential buyers while maintaining a close, ongoing interaction with the Krystal leadership team. Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza signed a multi-unit development deal that will grow the brand’s footprint in Southern Louisiana.

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