First Watch has lower manager turnover than its peers. / Photograph courtesy of First Watch
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Operations
Restaurants ride a CPG wave
Post-pandemic consumers are embracing their favorite restaurant brands on retail shelves despite higher grocery inflation.
Financing
Lower-income consumers are eating more fast food
The Bottom Line: Quick-service chains are getting more business from lower-income diners. Here’s why it might not all be a trade-down from more expensive restaurants.
Food
How Velvet Taco puts 52 unique limited-time tacos on the menu every year
A robust R&D pipeline constantly keeps WTF, the fast casual’s Weekly Taco Feature, filled with inventive tacos. Director of Culinary Venecia Willis makes it happen.