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- 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
- In the next five years, president and CEO Jim Mizes believes Blaze Pizza can become a $1 billion brand.… t.co/FWLYXJGGly
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...
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,...
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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...
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...
Outside Insights
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...
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Fans can come up with several reasons for why it’s good to eat dessert first. But the Dairy Queen system has come up with the best reason yet.
On July 27, for that day only, the Dairy Queen system is encouraging fans to Eat Dessert First during the 12th Annual Miracle Treat Day, when $1...
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Como, a global leader in cloud-based customer engagement solutions, has expanded its product offering with the launch of Como Sense Express, which gets businesses set up fast with personalized loyalty programs, a branded mobile app, and actionable data and BI.
The POS-integrated product...
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Modern Market takes the season’s best and serves it up in their new summer menu, which debuts Wednesday in all markets. Full of incredible flavor and color, the new menu features tangy notes, crunchy textures, herb infusions and a brand new protein addition: pulled pork.
Modern Market...
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Nestlé Toll House Café by Chip is cooling things off this summer with premium, personalized ice cream sandwiches—the perfect combination of two of life’s most delicious treats: cookies and ice cream.
Sweet-toothed guests begin their journey to decadence by choosing two cookies from a...
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Locali, the wildly popular and rapidly growing LA-based healthy deli and convenience store, recently signed a lease for yet another corporate store in West Hollywood. The address for the new location is 8730 Santa Monica Blvd. Unit D, West Hollywood, California, and the expected opening is...
Finance
An ongoing challenge for many a restaurant is maintaining a steady stream of foot traffic and meal orders, especially when any number of uncontrollable factors—bad weather, nearby construction, traffic jams, and more—has the potential to derail what could be a lucrative business day.
To...
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Anthony’s Pizza & Pasta has always believed that one good bite deserves another.
So this July 23—30, every shark fanatic’s favorite week of the year, the popular restaurant is inviting pizza lovers to tear into its killer Great White Pizza.
Guests at participating Anthony’s...
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Good Times Restaurants Inc., owner of Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard, a regional quick-service restaurant chain focused on fresh, high quality, all natural products, and of Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar, a full service, upscale concept, today announced the resignation of Jim Zielke as Chief...
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It takes an independent spirit to run any kind of small business, especially a restaurant business.
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.
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.
For years, Pita Pit worked to educate customers about the nutritional value of its various pita fillings and toppings.
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.
Food halls are taking the nation’s cities by storm, providing locals with a central location for dozens of innovative concepts.
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.
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
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.
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.
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