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Modern Restaurant Management
MARCH 11, 2025
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EATER
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Umi’s website says it has a “strictly enforced” dress code, which bars “ball caps, sneakers, athletic wear and sports jerseys,” but the couple says not only had Johnson worn those exact shoes to Umi before, but a woman at the bar, who was white, was also wearing sneakers. It escalated from there. Dudes with short-sleeved polos.”
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ChowNow
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Between online reservations, third-party delivery apps, and direct ordering from your website, digital interactions often happen before a guest ever steps through your doors. A casual brunch spot in a college town will attract a different crowd than a high-end steakhouse in a business district. We now live in a digital-first world.
Modern Restaurant Management
MAY 5, 2021
Casual Dining velocity has grown by 158 percent over the same period, suggesting many of the Casual Dining business models were able to maintain sales to some degree through pandemic restrictions. In fact, 30 percent of recent casual dining visitors think there is an opportunity to improve the quality of the beverage offer.
EATER
APRIL 30, 2021
That same month, the group debuted an outpost of its casual Italian-American restaurant Parm at Woodbury Commons, an outlet mall in Central Valley, New York. The Design District restaurants, they’re fun and casual. The difficulty of snagging a reservation only added to Carbone’s appeal. Miami loves that type of stuff.
Modern Restaurant Management
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
In the short term, it’s QSR that will experience labor improvement, then fast-casual. My prediction is you’ll see a split here between a mobile-ordering track versus an old-school approach with cash only bar / restaurants popping up with cult followings, that can abandon reservations all together.
Modern Restaurant Management
JULY 30, 2021
However, according to a 2019 report from the Federal Reserve Bank, 37 percent of all Americans could not cover an unexpected $400 expense without going into debt. Founded in 2006, Just Salad is the fast-casual restaurant industry’s leading proponent of zero-waste practices.
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