{"id":11693,"date":"2017-03-09T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=11693"},"modified":"2017-03-09T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:00:01","slug":"its-time-to-disrupt-fast-casual-heres-where-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/its-time-to-disrupt-fast-casual-heres-where-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to Disrupt Fast Casual. Here\u2019s Where to Start."},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\ndiv#keypoints {\n  margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 0.5em;\n}\nli#takeaway1, li#takeaway2, li#takeaway3 { \n}\np#quote {\n  background-color: #AFEEEE; color: #333333; padding: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; font-style:italic;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">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.<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">According to TDn2K\u2019s 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.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">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.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">In addition, Disrupting Fast Casual will host some of the CIA\u2019s top educators, along with featured speakers Rich Landau, chef\/owner of Philadelphia\u2019s Vedge and Wiz Kid, and Steven Goldstein, CMO of Sharky\u2019s Woodfired Mexican Grill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"source\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/fast-casual\/it-s-time-disrupt-fast-casual-here-s-where-start\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/fast-casual\/it-s-time-disrupt-fast-casual-here-s-where-start<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s recent Restaurant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}