Lon Southerland, senior director, global food and beverage for Marriott International, will keynote the ninth annual Fast Casual Executive Summit, Oct. 12-14 in Denver. During his keynote, he will describe how and why he chose to break from the standard hotel buffet options to create The Bistro, a fast casual concept inside Marriott lobbies that […]
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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 […]
Beverage sales account for the one of the largest sources of profits for restaurant operators. That being the case, recent news no doubt has them terrified. A new report by Beverage Digest says American soda consumption in 2013 was its lowest level in two decades, down 3 percent from 2012 and marking the ninth straight […]
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 […]
The editors of FastCasual.com are now accepting nominations for The 2014 Fast Casual Top 100. The annual publication is a wildly popular mix of rankings compiled from industry nominations as well as a panel of industry experts. Categories include: The Top 50 Fast Casual Concepts The Top 25 Most Influential Fast Casual Movers & Shakers […]
There’s been a lot of chatter among media and industry experts this year about why fast casual restaurants are thriving while other dining segments, including QSR and casual dining, are falling behind. Although qualitative stories can help form a picture, it also takes quantitative data to specifically measure what’s going on in the industry. Realizing […]
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 […]
The downloadable “The 2013 Fast Casual Top 100 Movers & Shakers” was released Monday morning, after an awards gala the night before in Chicago, timed to coincide with the National Restaurant Association tradeshow. Both “The Top 100” and the event were sponsored by restaurant equipment manufacturer, Henny Penny. Judges determined the top 50 brands based […]
