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Raw and Ready: Growing a Healthy Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

The owner of Delicious Raw, a healthy fast casual concept launched in 2013, is looking to grow the brand and create a one-stop-shop for healthy consumables for a broad audience. In 2005, I stopped doing that and started working on building a private equity fund focused on emerging brands in the European fashion design industry.

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Consumer Dining Survey: Sales Inching Up; Basket Size Trending Down

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percent, the highest it's been since November 1981, not to mention the sharpest monthly increase the country has seen since 2005. Almost one in five respondents stated ordering more or much more from fast casual and full-service restaurants, an increase of four percent from Q1. QSR net sales are up 1.4

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What Are Crytpo Restaurants Serving Up?

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Bee, the celebrity chef who opened Miami’s Oishi Thai restaurant back in 2005 is preparing to launch Miami’s first NFT restaurant. Piya has no confirmed locations, but it will have a private omakase dining room and a fast-casual area where NFT holders can access exclusive events. Camboflare.

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Veganuary and Beyond: Capitalizing on Growing Plant-Based Trend

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percent in the first week of January across fast casual and quick service restaurants in the UK as compared to the first week of December. Oregon-based Coconut Bliss, which has been creating organic, plant-based ice cream since 2005, begun working with a number of fast-casual restaurants in order to provide customers vegan dessert options.

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The Complicated Legacy of ‘Super Size Me’

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This very publication launched as a food blog in 2005, further fueling the public’s growing fascination with restaurants and food culture. Fast-casual” brands like Shake Shack and Sweetgreen have emerged with an eye on higher quality (or “healthier”) food, ethical sourcing, and sustainability.

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MRM Research Roundup: Catering, Kiosks, Tipping and Dry January

Modern Restaurant Management

State of Digital Qu announced the results of its fifth annual survey of quick service (QSR) and fast casual (FC) restaurant brands. Digital ordering is still larger at fast casuals versus QSR. Half of fast casuals achieved 26-50 percent digital sales, while nearly half of QSRs had 11-25 percent digital sales.

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Top 17 Restaurants with Private Dining in Jacksonville

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The dress code is business casual. Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant opened in 2005 with the understanding that good food and great wine could bring people together. The vibe in the restaurant is contemporary and casual, and the cuisine is locally sourced and seasonal. The dress code for the restaurant is smart casual.

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