China offers a wide range of pizza products and service levels, from fast food and delivery to upscale casual dining.
Same-store sales across the casual dining chains have declined for four years running, a sign that the industry is way overbuilt.
As newer and trendier dining concepts have emerged, competition for prime casual dining locations has driven rent increase as high as 300% on renewed leases.
It appears the casual dining restaurant was affected by renewed concerns of a double-dip among consumers as the European debt situation worsened and the stock market corrected in May.
Pizza Hut is now the number one pizza brand, with nearly 500 Pizza Hut casual dining restaurants in over 120 cities, plus 106 Pizza Hut home delivery service units.
Often described as the King of Casual Dining Restaurants, Cheesecake Factory has been a long-time winner among its many loyal customers who lunch or dine regularly at its 177 locations.
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Who would have thought that pizza would become a staple of the Chinese fast food and casual dining industry, going against the grain of thousands of years of culinary history?
In the new tradition of fast-casual dining, you get on line (which often spills out into the street) to order and the food is brought to you at large communal tables.
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Last week, the company opened its 300th store in Mexico, its largest market in Latin America and where it has a joint venture with Alsea, an operator of fast food establishments and casual dining in Latin America.
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Telluride excels at casual dining: for pizza and real slow smoked barbecue, I think Brown Dog Pizza and Oak are the best in class at any ski resort in the country, and are both are exceptional for their genre.
The company, a fast-growing casual-dining chain and a leader in the grill and bar space, operates 700 company-owned and franchised restaurants across 41 states.
If a modest recovery continues in the U.S., top casual-dining chains stand to prosper and having two good brands is gold for a franchisor.
The restaurant offers guests a casual, elegant dining experience.
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Beef bourguignon can now be found at practically every turn in Burgundy, where it is more common in casual spots than fine-dining restaurants.
There is no chef with more celebrity than Wolfgang Puck, a one man empire of over 100 restaurants, from fine dining to airport fast casual, dozens of exclusive catering facilities in top cultural and sports venues, cookbooks, supermarket foods, wines, cookware and frequent TV appearances.
We believe there is potential within this niche segment and that Asian casual food has been popularized by food trucks, dining stands and small restaurants in most major cities.
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While the city has almost every kind of eatery imaginable, and is arguably the best food city in the nation right now, especially for fine dining, it did not have a lobster roll joint or casual to-go seafood place that was not sushi.
"Fast-casual chains make a statement: They spend little on advertising but a lot on the dining experience, " says Novak, a former chief executive of KFC.
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