Brands, as well as newer fast casual chains like Panera Bread and Chipotle.
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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.
To compound the issue, in addition to plentiful supply of consumers with low esteem and a perceived sense of powerlessness, fast food chains and even fast casual restaurants such as Applebees, and Texas Roadhouse continue to feature numerous options to upgrade or increase the size their already too large regular food and drink portions.
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Yum Brands is also combining Pizza Hut with a fast-casual chain called Pasta Bravo in test markets.
New designs for multibranded units at Yum headquarters borrow some of the elements that help make fast-casual chains popular.
Chipotle, like other fast-casual chains, has wedged into the market by stressing its menu as a more nutritious option.
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The company's push to reinvent itself comes as people are increasingly eating at fast-casual chains such as Panera Bread Co.
"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.
Brands and newer rivals like fast-casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill.
"He took a great interest in us, " says Reinstein, who intends to expand his fast-casual restaurant into a chain of 500 or more in a decade.
The moves are a response to the emergence of new burger chains, such as Five Guys, and the growth seen by fast-casual restaurants, such as Panera Bread and Chipotle.
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In America, where the chain faces new competition from fast-casual chains like Chipotle and Panera and premium burger outfits like Five Guys and Shake Shack, sales growth was 2% last year.
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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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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.
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?
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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China offers a wide range of pizza products and service levels, from fast food and delivery to upscale casual dining.
They see the lives of many dalits changing fast, especially for those flocking to urban areas like Noida to do casual labour, shedding jobs as sweepers or tanners that once defined them as outcasts.
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