Valdes had always wanted to open a quick-service restaurant, an idea that stuck in Bayless' craw.
Here within the states, the markets are very saturated for the quick-service restaurant format.
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Despite the lavish, all day feast at Facebook, Desimone says he keeps his per meal costs competitive with quick-service restaurants.
Improvements like this would succeed in building sales--but not by capturing milk shake sales from competing quick-service chains or by cannibalizing other products on its menu.
Now the Los Angeles-based company, which went public on May 3, wants to grow by expanding into shopping malls, quick-service restaurants and sports stadiums and arenas.
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Traditionally drinkers of tea, Indians have of late been taking to ordering espressos and cappuccino at quick-service cafes as a growing middle class increasingly adapts to Western tastes.
Quick-service restaurants will likely be a tougher sell for Boingo.
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At quick-service restaurants, many of which only started taking cards in the early 2000s, just 37% of sales were charged in 2012, but the trend toward plastic is the same.
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Quick-service restaurants and packaged food are interesting.
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service offerings can also provide quick, low-cost access to data center resources for software development and prototyping.
That year United started its quick-hop Shuttle service, which tried to beat Southwest at its own game by offering cheap fares, plentiful flights and no-frills service from its main operations in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Further afield in Seattle where chains are also now required to display calories (the practice also spread to California), a study of 37 sit-down and quick service burger, pizza, sandwich, and Tex-Mex chains in the area found fast-food entrees contained about 19 less calories only 18 months after the regulation was implemented.
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While initial estimates called for a service outage of 1-2 days, quick-thinking techs were able to get service going again in just 4 hours.
Employees of banks could shut down computers that make quick arbitrage trades across markets, using denial-of-service attacks to overwhelm servers and potentially cause millions in losses.
After a quick marriage and service in the Marines, Jones was discovered by Starday Records co-owner Pappy Daily, who guided his early career.
In addition, Microsoft showed an update to Bing Maps that enables indoor search, such as within shopping malls, and a Google Goggles-like service called Bing Vision that lets users scan products like books to find quick links to product reviews, prices and vendors.
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The trial is part of a rapidly growing consumer-service trend of skipping cash, and even credit cards, in favor of a quick tap from a mobile phone.
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