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This is a list of casual dining restaurant chains around the world, arranged in alphabetical order. A casual dining restaurant is a restaurant that serves moderately priced food in a casual atmosphere. Except for buffet-style restaurants and, more recently, fast casual restaurants, casual dining restaurants usually provide table service.
A fast casual restaurant, found primarily in the United States and Canada, is a restaurant that does not offer full table service, but advertises higher quality food than fast-food restaurants, with fewer frozen or processed ingredients. It is an intermediate concept between fast food and casual dining.
Following the rise of fast food and take-out restaurants, a retronym for the older "standard" restaurant was created, sit-down restaurant. Most commonly, "sit-down restaurant" refers to a casual-dining restaurant with table service, rather than a fast food restaurant or a diner, where one orders food at a counter.
The concept was founded in 1969 and is credited with helping to mold today’s casual dining scene, per Restaurant Business Magazine. It was once so popular that it grew to more than 200 locations ...
The fast-casual Japanese chain Pepper Lunch will open 20 new restaurants across Southern California and Las Vegas as part of a major franchise deal with the Carl L. Karcher Group.
9 Restaurant Trends We’re Seeing *Everywhere* Right Now, from Casual Caviar to Celery Cocktails. Taryn Pire. June 9, 2023 at 9:00 AM.
Qdoba is owned by Modern Restaurant Concepts, a fast-casual restaurant platform that is a portfolio company of Butterfly Equity. [8] Butterfly Equity is a Los Angeles, California-based private equity firm specializing in the food sector. [8]
Victor J. Blue, Bloomberg via Getty Images And it's the casual, or The overall economy may be picking up, but major chains are hurting. Midday Report: Casual Dining Chains Still Feel the Pinch