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Fast Casual

Emerging Brands

Saying go to drive-thru salad

 By Lisa Jennings on Jan. 04, 2024

With a head-turning design and an engaged venture capital backer, Greenlane could shake up the healthful fast-casual segment.

Marketing

Chipotle wants to reward those who are not quitters

 By Lisa Jennings on Jan. 02, 2024

This resolution season, the chain is partnering with the Strava app, mapping out segments to run, bike or walk that end at a Chipotle.

Food

Just Salad partners with Michelin-starred Dirt Candy for new plant-based bowl

By Patricia Cobe on Jan. 02, 2024

The fast casual collaborated with Amanda Cohen, chef-owner of the NYC vegan restaurant, to develop the limited-time salad.

Emerging Brands

Automated restaurants, Chipotle's next thing and a plant-based burger with Kevin Hart buzz

By Lisa Jennings on Dec. 20, 2023

Here are a few concepts to watch in 2024. Some have only barely gotten started, but they promise big things.

Financing

Earnings roundup: Recent months prove tough for Ark, Good Times, RCI

By Peter Romeo on Dec. 19, 2023

The three multi-concept restaurant operators showed significant declines, with at least one blaming more serious consumers.

Technology

Sweetgreen brings its automated restaurant format to California

By Lisa Jennings on Dec. 15, 2023

The second location of the robotic Infinite Kitchen format opened this week as the fast-casual chain prepares for more in 2024 and beyond.

Operations

How Honeygrow got its groove back

By Lisa Jennings on Dec. 14, 2023

Growth was on hold for a reset prior to the pandemic but now the 40-unit chain is gearing up to more than double in size in five years.

Technology

Wingstop brings in new CIO as chain prepares shift to in-house tech

By Lisa Jennings on Dec. 14, 2023

Chris Fallon, who previously worked in tech at Starbucks, is the Dallas-based chain's new SVP and CIO.

Technology

Chipotle's latest investment: weed-cutting robots and climate-smart fertilizer

By Lisa Jennings on Dec. 13, 2023

The latest investments by the chain's Cultivate Next venture fund continue a focus on technology to better the planet.

Operations

Shake Shack's C-suite will look different for the next phase of growth

By Lisa Jennings on Dec. 11, 2023

The chain was already looking for a new COO. Now the search is on for a new CEO. If an activist investor has its way, the leaders will have strong operational experience in limited service.

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