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- What can you do to improve employee retention? Tips from @joinhomebase. t.co/tp8HyIRBUo
- RT @TheLevelUp: Carb lovers, rejoice! This #FoodieFriday @QSRmagazine discusses the rise of fast casual pasta dishes 🍝 t.co/1B6uvv8…
- With a new strategy in place, 65-year-old @ChurchsChicken is ready to roll. t.co/gH2lqovVLe
- Pasta joints have discovered a new way to get millennials to the table: fast casual. t.co/qRgIshH9Wj t.co/NJxohW7ge9
- It's pasta for the people, fast casual style. t.co/Fn79CSolva
- Some of the quick-service industry's top brands have jumped on the meal-kit bandwagon. t.co/fvjh0dsQ1n t.co/Fil42YTtdR
- At-home delivery meal kits have disrupted the entire spectrum of the American food market. t.co/h4aNkxZ1cz
- It's time to get that money for your restaurant. t.co/MbjcXKX75B
- RT @RestaurantsAct: Here are a few fun, creative tips to get your restaurants off the ground @QSRMagazine t.co/YpdgnW0xiE
- Buffalo Wild Wings doubled down on full service 15 years ago, but is ready to test the quick-service market again. t.co/L41ULZWt1G
Industry News
Shares of Zoës Kitchen slid in after-hours trading Thursday and throughout the day Friday following a sluggish second quarter that saw same-store sales and traffic dip across its 232-unit system.
Heading into Thursday’s earnings release, shares were down nearly 70 percent over the past year. They...
Competition
The City of Baldwin Park, California, sits northeast of the I-10 and 605 junction, covering some 6.6 miles of land in the San Gabriel Valley Region of Los Angeles County. A former agricultural outpost roughly 18 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, Baldwin Park is today a city of working-class souls...
Outside Insights
Your employees are your business. They greet and serve your customers, they open and close the shop, they handle the money, and they work alongside you in the kitchen. Each night, they leave, and each morning, you hope they come back.
There are a lot of other employers that would love to hire your...
Growth
Phrases like “primed for success,” and “poised to make some noise,” don’t exactly fit a 65-year-old brand. But Church’s Chicken has been a quiet giant of sorts in the quick-service industry in recent years. This is especially true in the chicken category, a booming sector home to the industry's...
Fast Casual
Even as pasta, with all of those carbs, is getting a bad rap from the food police, it’s not stopping savvy pasta operators from figuring out how to draw millennials to the table: by serving freshly made, reasonably priced pasta right from the counter.
That, at least, seems to be a winning formula...
Industry News
Starbucks executive chairman Howard Schultz said “the moral fiber, the values, and what we as a country have stood for is literally hanging in the abyss.” Panera Bread CEO and founder Ron Shaich turned to a song often reserved for Christmas albums to express his reaction to the Charlottesville,...
Web Exclusive
The new “Hardly Homemade” take-home taco meal kits at Tijuana Flats are not the fruit of detailed customer surveys, in-depth focus groups or sophisticated market research. The easy, portable meal kits came from personal experience.
Monique Yeager, the 130-unit brand’s CMO, wanted to bring dinner to...
Start to Finish: What Inspires Execs
My father had a pharmacy in St. Louis, and I started working the candy counter when I was 8 years old. Fast-forward to when I worked in financial planning. At one point I was at Denny’s and Winchell’s, and my boss asked me to be the controller. Everybody somewhere in their career has a pivot point...
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Industry News
The Carving Board Sandwiches, a fast-casual restaurant that provides comfort food sandwiches of the highest quality, recently announced its first international franchise deal. The agreement will bring 12 new locations throughout Dubai over the next five years.
The Dubai expansion will be...
Industry News
Tacos 4 Life Grill, a growing fast casual taco restaurant brand on a mission to help end childhood hunger, is partnering with Franchisee Chip Ladigo, former Director of Operations at The Cowfish Sushi Burger Bar, to open his first of five locations in the Charlotte region.
Groundbreaking...
Industry News
Sonic Drive-In, NBC Sports Group and sports comedy website The Kicker have teamed up to create a new short-form original digital video series, “The Pits,” which spoofs the life of a NASCAR pit crew. The series debuts July 23 during NBC Sports Digital’s live stream of the Monster Energy NASCAR...
Industry News
The Flame Broiler, known for serving simple, healthy and delicious rice bowls while on the go, continues its expansion with a new location in the Highland Park area of Los Angeles.
To celebrate The Flame Broiler’s new location in Los Angeles, they will be offering buy one rice bowl, get...
Consumer Trends
There was a time when restaurants were restaurants and stores were stores. That time, though, may be screeching to a halt.
In an age when food-infatuated millennials want exactly what they want precisely when they want it, the restaurant world is adjusting with brands that are part...
Industry News
Taziki's Mediterranean Café unveiled a new interior design this week at the grand opening of its 77th location in Alabaster, Alabama.
The new direction for Taziki’s is centered around a deeper enduring sense of happiness or what the Greeks call “eudaimonia.”
The new design reflects...
Industry News
Starting July 24, customers have another delicious way to enjoy Teavana Shaken Iced Tea Infusions at Starbucks stores with the new Piña Colada Tea Infusion.
A twist on the Teavana Shaken Iced Pineapple Black Tea Infusion, Piña Colada Tea Infusion is a creamy and tropical beverage crafted...
Industry News
Burger 21, an award-winning “beyond the better burger” fast casual franchise, announced its expansion into New Mexico with the addition of an Albuquerque location set to open this October. The growing brand now has 22 open locations and 15 in development across 11 states.
“We’re excited...
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Whether it’s açai, juice cleanses, or spiking your morning coffee with yak butter, our culture loves the notion of fast-track solutions to better health.
Running a successful restaurant is more than serving quality food and drinks; it requires a business owner to have a means to pay for a knowledgeable and skilled staff, quality ingredients, efficient equipment, and appealing facilities that are required to remain competitive and keep customers comin
For years, Pita Pit worked to educate customers about the nutritional value of its various pita fillings and toppings.
Many restaurateurs are ready to feel the warm spring breeze, as it means diners will rid themselves of their cabin fevers and begin eating out again. But restaurateurs and their guests are not the only ones who are excited—pests are too.
Enterprise systems are more advanced than ever. Not only do they provide vital business information, but they can also make maintaining a consistent menu database across the brand easier than it’s ever been.
The City of Baldwin Park, California, sits northeast of the I-10 and 605 junction, covering some 6.6 miles of land in the San Gabriel Valley Region of Los Angeles County.
Breaking findings from Sense360 show that early morning hours are important across sub-categories of quick-serve restaurants for the most loyal customers.Nutritionists have long hailed breakfast as the most important meal of the day and USA today recently highlighted the growing importance of breakf
Food halls are taking the nation’s cities by storm, providing locals with a central location for dozens of innovative concepts.
Your employees are your business. They greet and serve your customers, they open and close the shop, they handle the money, and they work alongside you in the kitchen.
For those limited-service brands that don’t yet have mobile ordering, consider three words of advice from Nike: Just do it.Within the next three years, every quick serve with any kind of regional or national footprint will have mobile ordering system-wide, says Russell Zack, senior vice president of