Mary Chapman

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Consumer Trends

Most craveable fast-casual brands

These are the fast-casual concepts with the highest ratings and the unique items their customers yearn for.

Consumer Trends

Fast-casual consumers: Who are they?

Part of what makes fast casual a winning formula is the segment’s refusal to follow an all-things-for-all-people mentality.

Panera Bread founder, Chairman and CEO Ron Shaich shared his one-cafe-at-a-time focus at Winsight’s Restaurant Leadership Conference.

The maximum prices that consumers say they are willing to pay for fast-casual meals have gone up over the past two years, according to a recent study from Technomic.

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