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St. Regis Hotels Partners with Luxury Italian Porcelain Brand
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Miami Grill Opens First Walmart Location
Miami Grill has expanded into multinational retailer Walmart, starting with the brand’s Las Vegas opening.
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Retailing in Restaurants
In 1940, Ken and Florence Hanna opened a Framingham, Mass., restaurant that soon gained notoriety for its signature salad dressing. Legend has it that patrons
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What Restaurants can Learn from Retailers
Restaurants aren’t the only ones working overtime to figure out how best to navigate to a “new normal.” Retailers, too, are being forced to innovate their way through rapidly changing consumer
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Luxe Speakeasy Hides in a San Diego Mall
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How To Incorporate Retail into Restaurant Design
Time for a little retail therapy? For many restaurants, adding retail elements to their operations has become a ticket to survival over the past year and a half, accelerating an existing stretch
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Reader’s Dish: Mark Landini, Creative Director, Landini Associates
Mark Landini, creative director of Landini Associates, offers insights on what's to come in restaurant design.
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La Madeleine Partners with Walmart on Express Locations
The chain expects to open its first la Madeleine Express in Garland, Texas, in July. The remaining nine locations will open shortly thereafter.
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16 Handles New Retail Model Opens
16 Handles opened the brand’s smallest full-service shop in Tribeca.
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Retail Restaurants
While some retail storefronts shutter, others are branching out and creating destinations for shoppers. Some are even turning shoppers into diners. Increasingly, customers can take a break from
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Restaurant Real Estate Market Rankings Revealed
Retail and restaurant real estate markets may share economic indicators but this does not always lead to a direct correlation of their successes, according to results from consumer analytics firm
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Cheesetique Makes a Move
New location brings brand vision into sharper focus.
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Porch Swing Offers Southern Comfort in a Polished Setting
While casual dining has taken a beating in recent years, many operators have developed a polished-casual strategy to draw in guests. Porch Swing Restaurant, located in the Dallas suburb of
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Consultant's Take: Luxury Malls Need Destination Restaurants
America’s malls are struggling, with vacancy rates climbing to 9 percent in the third quarter of 2018. But it’s not all bad news: Luxury malls are doing better — so well, in fact,
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GODIVA Brings Cafe Concept to NYC
Premium chocolate purveyor GODIVA launched its first cafe in America in New York City as part of a global strategy to grow its business fivefold.
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Halo Top Builds Brand with Retail Locations
Halo Top Creamery earned a cult following for its premium low-calorie ice creams, which are sold in grocery stores by the pint. Looking to capitalize on that success, the company has been opening
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Neiman Marcus Opens Multilevel Retail and Dining Experience in NYC
The first Neiman Marcus in Manhattan features 188,000 square feet of luxury shopping, dining and technology.
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Eataly Las Vegas Is Open All Night
Eataly Las Vegas opened in December. It is the brand’s sixth location and first to remain open 24 hours a day.
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A World View: Grill Polonez, Istanbul, Turkey
Polonez is a well-known delicatessen brand in Turkey. Like so many retail brands, the company leveraged its popularity to enter the restaurant space by creating Grill Polonez Restaurants.
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The Emporium Plays up Savannah Vibe
Owned by Sage Restaurant Group, The Emporium Kitchen & Wine Market offers guests a retail wine/deli
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New Shell Select C-Store Design Has a Food Focus
Shell unveiled its Shell Select c-store concept and with it rolled out a new food-focused prototype design that’s intended to change the way consumers perceive
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Barilla Moves West
Grocery store staple Barilla announced plans to open two new fast-casual restaurants in Southern California in 2017 designed by
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Cha Bei Offers Education, Retail and F&B in One Small Space
The Galaxy Macau Casino in Macau, China, is home to a large, two-story gaming floor. It also offers a major retail component with shopping and dining
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Juice It Up! Opens Gym Store
Irvine, Calif.-based Juice It Up!has opened a location inside an LA Fitness in Arlington, Texas, the chain’s ninth nontraditional opening.
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Kellogg's Opens NY Restaurant
Kellogg's has opened its first-ever permanent restaurant, Kellogg's NYC, located on Broadway in New York City.
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C-Store Design Impacts Customer Purchases
Convenience store design impacts consumer perceptions and purchases of foodservice items, Technomic finds.
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Smoothie Factory Partners with Gold’s Gym
Smoothie Factory, a natural juice and smoothie concept founded by U.S. Olympian James Villasana, has partnered with Gold’s Gym, another Dallas-based
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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
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Expanding Grab-and-Go for Greater Profitability and Brand Extension
In today’s fast-paced society, a growing number of fast-casual foodservice concepts continue to add or expand their grab-and-go offerings to capture a greater share of
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Restaurants 2.0: Veteran Chains Invest in Emerging Concepts
Veteran chains continue to invest in trendy and emerging new concepts