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New Look for Long John Silver’s
Long John Silver’s will open a new flagship location in Louisville, Ky, in March. The in-line endcap unit will serve as a test-bed for menu and brand innovation for the seafood chain.
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El Pollo Loco Opens with Fresh Design in California
Fast-casual Mexican chicken chain El Pollo Loco brought its new prototype to Yuba City, Calif., in January. It is the chain’s reintroduction to the market after a long absence.
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Quaker Steak & Lube Express Debuts
TA Restaurant Group, a division of TravelCenters of America LLC, opened its first Quaker Steak & Lube Express at a TA travel center in Gary, Ind.
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Craft Beer Concept Beerhead Redesigns for Franchise Push
Based in the Chicago area, Beerhead is a craft beer concept offering roughly 500 beers in each of its seven restaurants. Open since 2012, the chain recently began selling franchises and has four such locations in its pipeline.
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Shula’s Opens New Prototype in Florida
Shula’s Restaurants opened its newest Shula’s Steak House location and debuted its latest prototype in Gainesville, Fla., in the lobby of the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center.
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Cicis Credits Brand Revitalization with Growth
Family-friendly pizza buffet chain Cicis has experienced 16 consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth through Q1 2017, and the company credits its brand revitalization launched in 2013 with making it happen.
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Ground Round Grill & Bar Expands with New Prototype
Casual-dining chain Ground Round Grill & Bar is expanding its footprint and is also developing a new prototype.
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Wing Zone Signs 50-Unit Deal in The Philippines
Wing Zone signed a major expansion deal to increase its international presence.
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Bar Design Niche: Third Space
The emphasis is on social at Pinewood Social in Nashville, Tenn. It combines a big bar program with a coffee shop, a full dining room, six bowling lanes and a large outdoor patio, sporting bocce ball courts, two dipping pools, and a 1976 Airstream trailer “food truck.”
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Huey Magoo’s Debuts New Prototype
Huey Magoo’s Chicken Tenders opened a new prototype location in Orlando suburb Dr. Phillips.
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Redesigned Dion’s Feels Like Home
This New Mexico-based pizza chain has developed a new prototype to grow into a regional chain.
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Krystal Launches New Prototype
The Krystal Company, known for its square hamburgers, opened a new restaurant prototype, the Davenport, in Marietta, Ga., which prominently features a clock tower to remind guests the restaurant is open 24 hours.
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Q&A with Jennifer Durham, Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Checkers & Rally’s Restaurants, Inc.
Known for its iconic red, white and black double drive-thru buildings, Checkers & Rally’s Restaurants, Inc., moved away from a retro image in 2012 to a more contemporary approach to its look with the debut of its Model 3.0 prototype. The update helped propel growth, and by the end of 2016, Checkers & Rally’s had added 176 new restaurants and 175 new franchisees.
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East Coast Wings & Grill Goes Beyond Sports
This casual-dining chain has rolled out a new design meant to appeal to families and Millennials.
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Johnny Rockets' Credits Brand Refresh for 2016 Growth
Johnny Rocketsopened 61 units globally in 2016, an increase of more than 10 percent. The chain attributes this success to its brand refresh, Diner 2.0, and plans to grow its total units to 385 by the end of 2017.
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Shoney’s Unveils New Prototype
Shoney’s, the Nashville-based chain founded in 1947 and operating in 16 states, will unveil its new design prototype in early 2017 at its Donelson, Tenn., location.
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Cowboy Chicken Goes from Kitsch to Cool with New Prototype
When Dallas-based Cowboy Chicken launched its franchise program in 2009, the company set a goal of growing into first a regional and then a national brand. The chain’s menu, featuring wood-fired rotisserie chicken, fit right in with the growing fast-casual sector and a burgeoning consumer desire for wholesome, authentic food.
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Back Yard Burgers Reveals New Prototype
Back Yard Burgers has introduced a new, contemporary design that features an open kitchen and updated interiors along with an updated logo, website and uniforms. The chain’s largest franchisee, Resolute Brands, LLC, opened the first restaurant to sport the new look in Gulfport, Miss.
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Mr. Gatti’s Goes Back
The 47-year-old pizza chain’s new prototype follows the old pizzeria model.
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Design Market: 3 Boston Restaurants You Must See
Boston’s dining scene has exploded in recent years, and the design — not just the food — of its newest and trending places continues to test creative limits. Here we look at one design that pays homage to Boston’s supper club past while still being thoroughly modern and another that perfects the aesthetic of a modern sushi bar.
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Acapulco Restaurant Y Cantina Goes to the Beach
A new prototype forsakes the Mexican restaurant cliches and provides guests with the feeling of being on a beach vacation.
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Equipment Advances Lead to Sub Chain Redesign
Sometimes advances in kitchen equipment technology can impact not just the menu but the entire customer experience. Penn Station East Coast Subs is the perfect example.
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A Perfect Fit: Retailers Blur Lines with Fresh Takes on In-Store Dining
Shopping and dining have long gone hand in hand, and for many consumers, they’re complementary pursuits. With few notable exceptions, however, retail and foodservice have chugged along on separate tracks, operating their own business models and, when proximity and demographics work in their favor, giving each other a boost of steam. Now, that scenario is changing fast.
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Saladworks Takes the Wraps Off a New Prototype
As the chain gets ready to accelerate its domestic and international growth efforts, Saladworks is preparing a new restaurant design that will include an updated logo. The fresh made salad concept’s new prototype will measure 2,000 square feet, smaller than previous iterations.
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STACKED Opens in Huntington Beach
In opening its fifth location, STACKED: Food Well Built, enhanced its design to feature more industrial-urban chic elements and include more wood treatments that underscore the “stacked” nature of the brand.
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Pizza Patrón Resumes Franchising
Mexican-themed pizza chain Pizza Patrón announced that it is resuming franchising after shutting down franchise sales in 2013.
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Back Yard Burgers Unveils Redesign Plans
Back Yard Burgers, the Nashville-based, Black Angus burger concept founded in 1987, unveiled a new, contemporary redesign of its restaurants and expansion plans.
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Dickey’s Barbecue Debuts New Design Model
Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants, Inc. opened a completely redesigned concept store in its hometown of Dallas, with plans to roll out the new look nationwide to all future locations. Many existing Dickey’s Barbecue Pit locations will also be retrofitted with aspects of the new model.
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Restaurant Development Report January 2016
rd+d takes a look at a few new design developments from the restaurant world.
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PizzaRev Inks Second Mexico Development Agreement
PizzaRev, a Los Angeles-based fast casual pizza chain, has signed an agreement to open 20 stores in Central and Western Mexico.