{"id":12897,"date":"2017-06-21T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=12897"},"modified":"2017-06-21T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:00:15","slug":"fast-casual-chains-are-getting-squeezed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/fast-casual-chains-are-getting-squeezed\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast-casual chains are getting squeezed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Recent reports show declines in revenues for fast-casual dining restaurants. Examples of fast-casual dining include Panera Bread, Co., Chipotle, and Habit. Fast-casual dining has been popular in recent years as alternatives to traditional fast food restaurants. However, recent improvements to traditional fast food menus have siphoned off customers from fast-casual dining. The recent tug of war for revenues demonstrates that while demographic trends change, restaurant chains must continue to adapt to ever changing trends and changes.<\/p>\n<p id=\"takeawayheader\">Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">The fast-casual segment is supposedly a disruptive force in the restaurant industry, pulling consumers away from traditional chains while promising higher quality food and a faster service model.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">But that disruption doesn\u2019t mean fast-casual chains are immune from all the other issues afflicting the restaurant industry at the moment.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">In a notably weak period for restaurants, the fast-casual segment was the weakest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;In the first three months of the year, publicly traded fast-casual chains averaged a same-store sales decline of 1.6 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"readmoretext\">Read more: <\/span><a id=\"source\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nrn.com\/fast-casual\/fast-casual-chains-are-getting-squeezed\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.nrn.com\/fast-casual\/fast-casual-chains-are-getting-squeezed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"task_trail\" style=\"display:none\">(abstract 3IZPORCT1F9Q4TU1JPZE0DOVUYJRHN 3YDTZAI2WXGAMW5IWQ5IOHTYJST143 A1AX506NAWLFHX)(authorquote 3RKHNXPHGWW9MBNQT4XGIGR7TE6KU3 3DEL4X4EL6LYA44VSQEWZF16J8CYXI A1DCGB72N1UIPT)(keypoints 3VLL1PIENQO9Y12FXJOH6PNVF1XZOT 3X31TUMD7XM6K4C32I4ZAYV95E51LD A1E5J6R70RF4LA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports show declines in revenues for fast-casual dining restaurants. Examples of fast-casual dining include Panera Bread, Co., Chipotle, and Habit. Fast-casual dining has been popular in recent years as alternatives to traditional fast food restaurants. However, recent improvements to traditional fast food menus have siphoned off customers from fast-casual dining. The recent tug of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8125,"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\/12897"}],"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=12897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}