The owners of Brazilian Bowl, Street Shak Caribbean Kitchen and Capitol Melts will pitch their concepts to attendees and a panel of advisers at the annual Fast Casual Executive Summit, Oct. 22 – 24 in Nashville. Brazilian, Caribbean and American cuisine will take center stage Oct. 24, in Nashville, when owners of three up-and-coming brands […]
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The publishers of restaurant industry news website FastCasual.com have announced the three finalists for “The Perfect Pitch” contest after an open nominations process. The finalists will present their concept to a panel of restaurant experts and a live audience on Oct. 20 in Miami during the Fast Casual Executive Summit at the Mandarin Oriental. The […]
Marketing guru Jeff Fromm, executive vice president of Barkley advertising agency and co-author of “Marketing to Millennials,” will keynote the ninth annual Fast Casual Executive Summit, Oct. 12-14 in Denver. In his presentation, “How to Supercharge Your Brand with Integrated Marketing,” Fromm will teach brand leaders how to create integrated marketing programs to inspire their […]
Larry Winget, AKA The Pitbull of Personal Development®, will keynote the 9th annual Fast Casual Executive Summit, Oct. 12-14 in Denver. His presentation will pull material from three of his six bestselling books, Shut Up, Stop Whining & Get a Life, It’s Called Work for a Reason and People Are Idiots and I Can Prove […]
Research over the past year has shown that restaurants serving innovative desserts and beverages are seeing increased traffic and check spend. That trend has inspired this year’s Fast Casual Executive Summit to open the event with “New Menu Stars: Beverages and Desserts,” a special session to teach attendees how to create, market and launch specialty […]
This year’s Fast Casual Executive Summit (Oct. 13-15 in New Orleans) will cut through the confusion surrounding mobile payments with a special session, “Mobile Payments 101.” This overview of different payment platforms and how they work will help restaurant operators decide how to approach this emerging technology, and which platforms might be right for them. […]
This year’s Fast Casual Executive Summit is all about learning from proven success, which is the reason why a new session, “Ask the Fast Casual Experts” was developed this year, said Cherryh Butler, FastCasual.com’s senior editor and hostess of the event set for Oct. 13-15 in New Orleans. The expert panel features the top-three ranked […]
Knowing when it’s time to change operations in a restaurant business is tricky, but five fast casual CEOs have developed recipes for success and will share them with attendees of the Fast Casual Executive Summit Oct. 13-15 in New Orleans. During the CEO Roundtable on Oct. 15, Carl Howard, CEO of Fazolis; Kelly Roddy, president […]
James Carville and Mary Matalin, Washington D.C.’s most high-profile political couple, will bring a fiery conversation about how Washington is affecting the restaurant industry to the 8th annual Fast Casual Executive Summit, Oct. 13-15 in New Orleans. The Summit brings together CEOs and other high-level executives of fast casual restaurant brands — big and small […]
