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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
Competition
In today’s limited-service landscape, competition is fierce, growth is key, and companies are doing everything they can to turn their brand into one of America’s elite.
But what does it mean to be elite in this industry? While there are countless paths to success, industry experts agree there are...
Menu Innovations
In an increasingly health-conscious society, the word fried on a menu is sometimes enough to send some consumers running for the doors. And fried chicken, one of the staples of American comfort cuisine, hasn’t been spared the bad wrap for its nutritional value.
But can a fried chicken concept...
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,...
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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...
Industry News
In its new ad campaign, Pizza Hut created “The Everyman—a character that represent the desires of every man, woman and child in America—oven-hot pizza delivered fast every time.
Pizza Hut picked actress Kristen Wiig for the role, and the first spot airs on Monday. The new campaign also...
Industry News
Velvet Taco—the trend-setting, premium taco concept created by Dallas-based Front Burner Restaurants—unveiled its all-new mobile app on July 13.
The new, user-friendly app allows customers to conveniently order Velvet Taco’s one-of-a-kind premium tacos directly from their mobile devices,...
Industry News
The U.S. Department of Labor is on the verge of handing restaurants a major victory. The DOL plans to propose a full rescission of the controversial tip-pooling restrictions put into effect by the Obama administration in 2011.
The restrictions identified tips as the property of employees...
Industry News
El Pollo Loco, the nation’s leading fire-grilled chicken chain, announced Monday the release of its new taco platters, available for a limited time. The new Taco Platter entrées include flavorful tacos served with seasoned rice and slow-simmered pinto beans.
“At El Pollo Loco, we take...
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.