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