The fast food restaurant industry has defined restaurants as we know them. This has forced old school fast service operators to increase their experience and full-service diners to pay the most attention to speed and convenience. Read on to learn what these restaurants may look like in 2017.

Key Takeaways:

  • According to TDn2K’s recent Restaurant Industry Snapshot, fast-casual sales declined in January, and for the first time in five years, the category had the weakest sales-growth performance among all restaurant segments.
  • Disrupting Fast Casual is not a traditional restaurant conference. Rather than feature an agenda of panels and speakers, Disrupting Fast Casual will include round-table discussions and hands-on activities that dive deep into the mechanics of fast casual.
  • In addition, Disrupting Fast Casual will host some of the CIA’s top educators, along with featured speakers Rich Landau, chef/owner of Philadelphia’s Vedge and Wiz Kid, and Steven Goldstein, CMO of Sharky’s Woodfired Mexican Grill.

“Rather than feature an agenda of panels and speakers, Disrupting Fast Casual will include round-table discussions and hands-on activities that dive deep into the mechanics of fast casual.”

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/fast-casual/it-s-time-disrupt-fast-casual-here-s-where-start

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James Madison University has decided to address the issue of food waste on it’s campus. They have started an annual program named Weigh the Waste. The event is a week long and students place food they were going to throw away on a scale in the dining hall. At the end of the week the school added up the amounts and there was a whopping 817 pounds of food being thrown away in just one week.

University uses weights to scale back on food waste

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Report: Flat sales growth to start new year still marks improvement

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Designing a menu can be tricky because of all the different considerations you have to make. Do people have allergies? How many are you feeding? Are there any people with special diets? This gives you more things to think about so you can plan the best possible menu. There are ten in all.

Key Takeaways:

  • Menus need to have good covers, photographs of food and boxes to highlight certain items also removing currency symbols give menus a modern look.
  • Using engaging language with great descriptions of the food offered and even suggested drink pairings works well. Don’t forget to tell a story
  • A fun kids section or even graphics for the regular menu can be fun and enticing.

“On a basic level, a menu shows a customer what food is on offer and at what price, but this is barely scratching the surface of what it can do.”

http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Business/10-things-to-consider-when-designing-your-menu?utm_source=RSS_text_news&utm_medium=RSS_feed&utm_campaign=RSS_Text_News

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