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For 69 years, In-N-Out Burger has marched to its own beat.
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- 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
- In the next five years, president and CEO Jim Mizes believes Blaze Pizza can become a $1 billion brand.… t.co/FWLYXJGGly
- In-N-Out Burger has marched to its own beat and emerged a cult phenomenon. t.co/51PnmgpYMW
- For 69 years, customers have been falling in love with In-N-Out Burger. t.co/51PnmgpYMW
- The restaurant industry creates an average of 500,000 jobs during the summer months. t.co/7sVUkQtajJ
- Restaurant sales took a tumble in July, @TDn2K says. t.co/hemduaQr0O
- What's next for Qdoba? t.co/pz7HcZSJIR
- The global food delivery market was worth $114 billion in 2016. t.co/HmsB7g6K58
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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...
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...
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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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...
Fast Casual
Several casual-dining brands have recently recognized the potential in counter-service spin-off concepts.
From Hooters to Cracker Barrel and from Hurricane Grill to The Cheesecake Factory, full-service brands are rolling out limited-service prototypes in hopes of drawing a younger, more transient...
Industry News
July cooked any optimism the restaurant industry might have felt from a promising June. Same-store sales dropped 2.8 percent across the landscape, a significant 1.8 percentage point decline from the previous month, when traffic and sales reached their best marks since 2016.
Traffic plummeted 4.7...
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The Big Chicken silently clucks its beak and rolls its eyes. At 56 feet tall—about five stories—it peers over not just the nearby interstate, but almost all of Marietta, Georgia. At the chicken’s base, a marching band plays as people gather on an impromptu red carpet and take pictures. The mayor,...
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It’s been a transformative decade for limited-service restaurants. The industry has evolved, from the invasion of food trucks to the explosion of higher-quality, service-oriented fast casuals. As consumers continue to expect high-caliber, convenient meals, would-be operators are limited only by...
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Rex’s Chicken Franchise System, LLC announced an opening for the newest flagship “Upscale QSR” Original Rex’s Chicken for August 24 in the Tulsa, Oklahoma suburb of Bixby. The Muscogee “Creek “ Nation’s Muscogee Nation Business Enterprise (MNBE) division signed a master franchise agreement in...
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Ready to take their better burger to new heights, Burger 21, an award-winning “beyond the better burger” fast casual franchise, announced Tuesday that the brand’s first airport location at the Tampa International Airport in Airside A is open and serving guests.
“Burger 21 began in Tampa...
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Crazy Bowls & Wraps is a fast-casual restaurant that has been serving up fresh, fast, bowls, wraps and salads for two decades—committed to clean eating long before it was a buzzword in the restaurant industry. Crazy Bowls & Wraps also just unveiled its summer menu, featuring the new...
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Panera Bread Company and JAB announced Tuesday the successful completion of the acquisition of Panera by an investment vehicle of JAB Consumer Fund and JAB Holding Company. The acquisition was announced on April 5, and the transaction closed and became effective Tuesday.
Under the terms...
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GPS Hospitality, one of the nation’s fastest-growing franchisees of Burger King and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen restaurants, has hired industry veteran Chris Phillips to provide companywide oversight for strategy, analytics, and mergers and acquisitions.
In his newly created role as Vice...
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Elo, a global supplier of touchscreen solutions, has teamed up with Kitchen Armor, a manufacturer of stainless steel touchscreen enclosures, to enhance the back-end kitchen operations of Shake Shack’s 70-plus restaurant locations with Expo Screens. The new Kitchen Armor Expo Screens featuring...
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Shares of Chipotle dropped more than 5 percent Tuesday after reports of norovirus surfaced at a Virginia restaurant. The Sterling location closed after customers complained of getting sick, including cases of vomiting, diarrhea, severe stomach pain, nausea, dehydration, and even two...
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Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop, known for its award-winning, hand-crafted sandwiches, brought on a team of high profile investors, led by franchising veteran Shelly Sun.
Capriotti’s is most famous for its 40-year nightly tradition of slow-roasting whole, all-natural turkeys in-house and hand-...
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For years, Pita Pit worked to educate customers about the nutritional value of its various pita fillings and toppings.
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
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
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.
When you hear the phrase “traditional American cuisine,” what are the first foods that come to mind?If you’re from New England, you may conjure up an image of a plate of baked cod or a boiled lobster.
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.
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.
The restaurant industry creates an average of 500,000 jobs during the summer months, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, making it one of the largest seasonal job creators.
Food halls are taking the nation’s cities by storm, providing locals with a central location for dozens of innovative concepts.
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