Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Fast-food chains, grappling with economic pressures, embraced self-service kiosks, while the rise of secure mobile payment platforms responded to the imperative of enhancing transaction security. . As of midyear, platform menu pricing was 19 percent above first-party menu pricing.

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AUGUST 7, 2024

It is affected by seasonality, market prices, and even pop culture. A restaurant that serves fresh swordfish with grilled vegetables, for instance, will probably have a higher food cost percentage than a fast-casual restaurant that serves fried fish and chips, since the fish may come frozen and the french fries can be bought in bulk.

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Goliath Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

In the Food Service industry, 2019 is bringing in its own wave of fresh trends! The desire for convenience and the popularity of fast-casual dining remains important to diners in this new year. Use of local foods and flavors is also a Food Service trend that you can expect in 2019. Each new year brings new trends.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

Other businesses have seen a surge of consumer interest, including chicken-wing joints (+84 percent), pizzerias (+71 percent) and fast-food restaurants (+55 percent). dine out more often to fulfill basic needs and gravitate toward drive-thru and take-away options associated with QSR and fast casual. In the U.K.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Their enthusiasm for our brand coupled with their deep experience developing successful polished casual and fast-casual restaurant brands in Alberta make them the perfect partners to bring CPK into Canada for the first time. ” In 2019, Accelerated Franchised Concepts (AFC) closed on a minority investment into Raw J?ce,

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In the short term, it’s QSR that will experience labor improvement, then fast-casual. Cost of goods and labor only continue to rise and the price a consumer is willing to pay for dining experience is harder and harder to earn as consumers become smarter with the way and options they have to spend their money.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Fast-Casual Fast Growth Rising prices in recent years have evidently been good for someone: Fast-casual restaurants. ” That report finds that, through the first half of 2024, fast-casual restaurants saw visit growth of 3.2 titled Pricing Strategies Driving Restaurant Visits in 2024.

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EATER

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Illustration by Bea Hayward Once a luxury reserved for posh dinners, fish roe has become the snack du jour at restaurants across the country — and it’s blurring the lines between casual and formal dining Caviar has gone on a journey over the past few years. Today, it’s almost the same price.”

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7 Shifts

JUNE 4, 2021

Ideal menu price. Your CoGSs is an essential number to have when determining your menu prices, inventory and impacts your net profit margin. Fast-casual: 28.9%. Casual: 33.2%. Upscale casual: 30.4%. It also plays a key factor in pricing your menu. Ideal Menu Price. What is ideal menu price?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2021

Randy’s Donuts began franchising domestically in the summer of 2019. Despite tremendous initial interest in 2019, the Covid crisis put a halt to all discussions in 2020. Saudi Arabia had a successful pop-up store at the 2019 Riyadh Season and is opening its first permanent store in Jeddah this summer.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

Highest Average Ticket Price : Michelle Constantino, Naperville, IL. Adding to the 20 Noodles & Company locations in the metro Chicago market, the ghost kitchen will help reach a new customer base through its digital channels and give the fast-casual brand a presence in-between local locations. "We're

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

42 of the country’s favorite fast food and restaurant chains still don’t offer a plant-based entrée, according to a report released today by The Good Food Institute (GFI). Just a few months after Burger King’s successful Impossible Whopper launch in August 2019, the restaurant chain added the Impossible Whopper Jr.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The fast-casual brand continues to grow amid the pandemic and is on track to open more than 30 restaurants this year. “Our team has been working hard to develop this fantastic concept designed to offer high quality, approachable, gourmet food options at a value-driven price to be experienced in a uniquely Yogurtland way.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

parent company of fast-casual restaurant chain The Habit Burger Grill, for approximately $375 million in a cash transaction. “As a fast-casual concept with strong unit economics, The Habit Burger Grill is a fantastic addition to the Yum! Beefing Up with Habit Acquisition. Brands, Inc. and internationally.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

There is incredible pressure to keep prices low – American labor is expensive and this business is very labor-intensive – profit margins have been diminishing for years – we're a breakeven industry at his point – something has got to change. Jockey Hollow Bar + Kitchen's Chris Cannon.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

This investment comes at a pivotal time, as the Indian fast casual has more than 50 franchise and corporate locations in varying stages of development across the United States, including two franchised locations that recently opened in Atlanta and Orange County, California. Best of all, we got all of that at an affordable price.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In 2019, Taco John’s unveiled an updated brand and restaurant design. The drive-thru feature is a first for the fast casual brand, which has previously focused on eat-in cafés and kiosks. “Fazoli’s is at the forefront of the fast-casual Italian category,” Milliken said.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

” Creating Multi-Brand Platform of Premium Casual Restaurant Concepts. ” Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii was purchased in mid-2019 by the Royal Aloha Coffee Company, which then set in motion a strategic plan for the brand’s aggressive growth plans. BurgerFi International Inc. Sankranti Likes Atlanta.

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Indoor Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

You know you need restaurant promotions to bring in new customers, but when you’re a fast-casual restaurant owner, this is often at the bottom of a very long to-do list, especially if you’re just starting out. Check out these tips to avoid these advertising mistakes we’ve seen fast-casual restaurants make over the years.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2023

Key findings illustrating the industry's economic conditions include: Growth will continue : The foodservice industry is forecast to reach $997 billion in sales in 2023, driven in part by higher menu prices. Consumer spending at foodservice outlets was up 4 percent due to higher prices, reports The NPD Group*.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2020

In addition to virtual kitchens meeting lower labor costs, they also offer a fast-track to opening, with a location able to begin serving in just one month. "The HOT-N-READY model provides customers a great tasting pizza at an everyday affordable price. In 2019, Little Caesars opened in Spain, India, and Barbados.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 1, 2020

percent of baby boomers used 3PD in the past two months, this reflects a growth of 50 percent compared to the same months in 2019.Sense360's “While price is important, overall, consumers seem to be more deliberate as to where and how they spend their money and are willing to spend extra money for quality products and heath options.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

The importance of the price of offering lowered from 78 percent to 50 percent. Prioritizing price amidst COVID-19 fell by almost half among those ages 60+, from 78 percent considering it a top-three factor prior to the outbreak to 41 percent now. The average salary for a chef or head cook was $56,310 in 2019. In 2019, 15.7

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

His previous experience also includes acting as CFO and controller for numerous hospitality and fast casual brands such as Rubio’s, Carl’s Jr., Fast casual restaurants continue to outpace industry growth and we see a great deal of opportunity for business owners in this urban market.” and Del Taco.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2024

Additionally, it means enacting ways to incentivize guests to order from a brand’s direct ordering channels, with offers like exclusive items and pricing, to drive in-house digital sales and therefore retain owned guest data. This started years ago with the fast casuals, but everyone will start to adopt beverage innovation widely.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

In addition to serving 15,000 restaurants and food services clients across the globe, Zuppler enjoys important partnerships with leading transactions processor Worldpay (acquired by FIS in 2019) and Rewards Network, a provider of loyalty-based marketing and financing services to the restaurant industry. percent for each order.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 13, 2019

HOP® Restaurants announced plans to launch Flip’d by IHOP™, a new fast-casual concept in the U.S., “In looking at what exists today in terms of fresh, fast menu options — particularly at breakfast — there’s still tremendous opportunity for growth,” said Jay Johns, President of IHOP.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

Smart Foodservice had 2019 revenues of approximately $1.1 US Foods will finance the acquisition primarily with $700 million in fully committed financing from Citigroup and Bank of America and will fund the balance of the purchase price through its existing liquidity resources. reducing to approximately 3.0x by the end of fiscal 2021.

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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. TISSL’s client portfolio ranges from independent coffee shops through to pub groups, fast food operations and Michelin starred restaurants. AdTheorent, Inc.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The top three finishers from each industry have formed a team to compete for the honor of 2019 Aramark Culinary Excellence National Champions. Nearly 52 percent of restaurant professionals rank high food and operating costs as a top challenge in running a restaurant, according to the Toast Restaurant Success in 2019 Industry Report.

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EATER

JUNE 28, 2021

Connors, who recently managed two popular fast-casual restaurants in Portland, recognizes that as consumer behavior shifts toward convenience — and as restaurant business models shift to keep up — it will be difficult (if not impossible) for restaurants to survive without establishing a presence on delivery platforms.

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Black Box Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Inflation began its decline in late summer, the short term increase in gas prices has since subsided, and the impact of those economic trends can be seen in consumer spending at restaurants. . In October, front-of-house hourly staffing was down just 2% from October of 2019. October is down a whopping 12% from its 2019 figures.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Salata is on track to have 25 new franchise contracts secured by the end of 2019. The introduction of the franchising microsite follows a number of brand milestones for Salata in 2019, including: The debut of a new restaurant design (February). As 2019 winds down, Del Taco’s expansion plans are still heating up.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2020

The transaction marks the addition of the first fast-casual concept to Yum! “The Habit Burger Grill is a sweet spot within fast-casual because of its delicious California-inspired menu with premium ingredients at a QSR-like value, strong unit economics and tremendous untapped growth potential in the U.S.

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Black Box Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A drop in gas prices combined with a more positive short-term outlook for income, business, and the labor market were all contributing factors. High Prices, Large Check Growth Fuels Increase in Sales Despite Declines in Traffic . Limited-service includes quick service, and fast casual.

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Black Box Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

These are fast-changing times for all types of restaurants. Quick-service and fast casual restaurants fall under the limited-service umbrella. Fine dining, upscale, casual family dining and casual dining restaurants fall under this category. Another trend we’re watching is pricing. Fast casual restaurants.

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Black Box Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2022

July’s top performing segments based on sales growth were Family Dining and Fast Casual. The industry’s worst performing segments – those posting negative YoY same-store sales growth – were Casual Dining and Fine Dining. But it’s not just about price. Limited-service includes quick service, and fast casual.

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