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flexible format
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How to Design Private Dining Rooms
Having a private dining room with only one function isn’t feasible for today’s restaurants, here's how to design with ROI in mind.
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What’s the Hottest Restaurant Design Trend Right Now?
A few trends continue to remain popular, but flexibility and community are driving a lot of design decisions.
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Flexible Kitchen Design
Rapidly changing consumer tastes put pressure on restaurants to update menus frequently.
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How to Maximize a Restaurant’s Footprint
Maximizing a restaurant’s footprint is a quest that has existed since the inception of restaurants.
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Le Bon Nosh Brings Elegant, Parisian Café Culture to Atlanta
Inspired by Paris’ café culture, the operation brings to life owner and executive chef Forough Vakili’s vision for a casual-yet-sophisticated all-day café, market, wine bar and restaurant
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Uno Pizzeria & Grill Rolls Out New Flexible Format
UNO Pizzeria & Grill introduced a new franchise concept that recreates the look and feel of the brand's original Pizzeria UNO Chicago location.
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Taco Bell Focuses on Drive-Thrus, Digital, Flexibility
Taco Bell is evolving its Cantina concept again — and circling back to drive-thrus.
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An Uphill Battle for Bars
Now nearing a year’s duration, the pandemic is still wreaking havoc on the hospitality industry. In this era of social distancing, bars have been especially stymied, since they depend on close
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Coolgreens Develops Flexible Base Model Prototype
Coolgreens teamed up with architecture and engineering firm Interplan to design a flexible prototype that will scale from 1,000 to 2,200 square feet.
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The Wild West of Nontraditional Development
How Chipotle, Wow Bao and other chains are pursuing innovative development tracks.
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Designing for Flexibility Now and Later
Designing for maximum flexibility was important before the pandemic, but the nimbleness that operators had to exhibit in 2020 was unlike anything the industry had ever seen. Designing
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Le Macaron Adds Mobile Kiosk
Le Macaron French Pastries added a mobile kiosk to capitalize on the growing quick-serve and snack trend. The chain will target captive audience spaces like airports, malls, festivals and
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Organic Burger Franchise Expands to West Coast
Burger Village, the New York City-based organic burger chain with full-service restaurants in Long Island and Brooklyn (and plans for quick-serve locations in the same boroughs) signed a
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Convenience Drives New Jamba Juice Formats
Jamba, Inc. will push its convenience-driven formats in the Dallas-Fort Worth market with three new openings.
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Flexible Formats and Scalable Restaurant Prototypes
When competition stiffens or the economy weakens, restaurant chains face the challenge of finding new, creative ways to pursue expansion. These days, competition is fierce, and the economy, while
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How to Maximize your Footprint
Customers seldom rave about good service, but they sure take note when it’s bad. For QSRs and upscale eateries alike, long waits at the counter, drive-thru window or dining table can wreak havoc
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