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new concepts
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Project Profile: Corazón by Baires
An underutilized mezzanine becomes a seductive new concept.
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2025 Award Winners
rd+d exists to share projects, examples and stories that educate and inspire. When the rd+d awards were launched nine years ago, our team wanted to highlight the projects that made readers proud and impressed our judges. This year’s winners did both! Read on to find out how.
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KFC Debuts Saucy New Concept
A new chicken tender concept Saucy has opened in Orlando, Fla.
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new + notable: UMMO, Chicago
This two-story space with a sophisticated downstairs dining room and a loft bar upstairs offers a new take on luxe Italian dining in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.
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2024 Award Winners
Let’s take a moment and celebrate these fabulous, functional designs judged to be among the best of the best in rd+d’s annual contest.
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Golden Corral Debuts New Fast Casual Concept
Homeward Kitchen, a new fast-casual concept from Golden Corral Corporation, will open its doors this December.
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Expanding the Smoothie Factory Menu
BRIX Holdings plans to elevate a current brand with an expanded menu. Smoothie Factory + Kitchen will open its flagship location this fall in North Richland Hills, Texas.
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Wetzel’s Pretzels Launches new Concept
Looking to unlock new development opportunities for the company, Wetzel’s Pretzels will launch a new concept that promises to provide guests with a “bigger, bolder, more imaginative expression of Wetzel’s” to neighborhood locations starting in California.
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2023 Award Winners
There’s plenty to celebrate as the restaurant community continues to rebuild and apply important lessons learned over the last several years of upheaval.
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Chef-Driven Indie Restaurant Pushes Forward Despite Pandemic
What’s it like to open an independent restaurant at the start of a pandemic?
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Full-Service Indian Chain Debuts Fast-Casual Concept
Owned by husband and wife team Anjan and Emily Mitra, DOSA is a successful Indian food concept based in San Francisco. The company recently opened its first outpost in Oakland and third location overall. While the first two DOSA units are full service operations, this one, dubbed dosa by DOSA is the growing chain’s first attempt at a fast-casual service model.
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Genuine Pizza Debuts in Miami, Plans Immediate Expansion
Genuine Pizza — a new concept from popular three-unit Miami chain Harry’s Pizzeria — debuted inside Aventura Mall’s new 315,000-square-foot expansion.
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BRAVO Coastal Bar & Kitchen Lets Design, Not Art, Create Experience
Based in Columbus, Ohio, BRAVO | BRIO Restaurant Group (BBRG) has two main concepts. BRAVO Cucina Italiana which has a Roman Ruins-inspired design; and BRIO Tuscan Grille, which has a more traditional Tuscan-inspired aesthetic.
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New Concept Farmbird Brings Fast-Casual Chicken to D.C.
A new chicken-based fast-casual restaurant debuted in Washington, D.C. this summer.
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Buffalo Wild Wings Pilots B-Dubs Express
Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc.will pilot two new small-format locations in the Minneapolis metro market this summer.
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General Tso’Boy Goes from Pop-Up to Restaurant
General Tso’Boy, originally a flea market pop-up in New York City, will open its first brick-and-mortar restaurant in Austin this month.
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Protein Bar Owners Open New Concept
The group behind Chicago-based fast-casual concept Protein Bar has opened a sister concept in Chicago’s Loop neighborhood called Thrive360 Eatery.