FastCasual.com is the leading resource for executives navigating the fast-paced, $45 billion fast casual restaurant industry. From emerging brands to national chains, we help operators stay competitive by delivering the latest news, trends, and strategies that drive innovation, guest satisfaction, and growth.Our coverage spans every facet of fast casual success:Menu innovation & food trendsRestaurant tech, equipment & automationDesign, layout & signageOperations, staffing & trainingCustomer experience & loyaltyFranchising, branding & marketingHealth, nutrition & sustainabilityCompliance, safety & supply chainIf your solution helps fast casual brands move faster, serve better, or scale smarter, FastCasual.com is where your message will make the biggest impact.
CheckThisOut.io
Check This Out’s advanced, mobile messaging platform fills seats for restaurants. Our sales engine is the fastest, most effective, and cost efficient way to acquire new customers and get existing customers to return more often. Check This Out MMS/SMS campaigns, with a 98% open rate within 3 minutes, allow restaurants to announce specials, events, update hours, etc. to their existing customers. Customers click on a link to make a reservation or order online and our clients track all click throughs/conversions through their Check This Out dashboard. Similarly, Check This Out’s word-of-mouth customer acquisition engine is unparalleled in the restaurant industry for its effectiveness in acquiring new customers for our clients. It integrates seamlessly into the campaign module and lets restaurants harness and accelerate word-of-mouth by allowing their customers to refer friends through texted discounts. We do all of this to help good people with great ideas thrive in the restaurant business and be a force for good in their communities.
Chain Store Guide
Chain Store Guide (CSG) has been the leading provider of comprehensive retail and foodservice intelligence to businesses around the world. CSG details all major chains as-well-as high-performance single unit stores in the United States and Canada with contact information, including email addresses, social media handles and direct dial numbers, for hundreds of thousands of key decision makers. Our data is reviewed and confirmed by our experienced team of industry experts. While some companies simply scrape data from the internet without verification, our researchers validate every company profiled. These updates are confirmed and authenticated regularly to ensure that the data is accurate and current. CSG provides data in an online portal, customized databases, and prints directories. Our clients consist of manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, brokers, real estate professionals, restaurants, analysts, consultants and other professionals seeking to gain insight into retail and foodservice markets in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, CSG tracks over 700,000 geocoded retail and foodservice locations, providing updates for openings and closings, historical snapshots spanning over 10 years, and mappings of the locations closed both temporary & permanent due to the pandemic.
California Milk Advisory Board
The California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB), an instrumentality of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, is funded by the state’s dairy families and is one of the largest agricultural marketing boards in the United States. With a mission to increase demand for products made with Real California Milk, the CMAB is celebrating over 50 years of promoting California’s sustainable dairy products in the state, across the U.S. & around the world through advertising, public relations, research, and retail and foodservice promotional programs. Stop by our booth and sample real California dairy from the following processors: Angelo & Franco, Bellwether Farms, Dosa by Dosa, Double Rainbow, Lifeway, Marin French, Petit Pot, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, Super Store Industries, Sweet Craft Dolceria & Wheyward Spirit. | The California Milk Advisory Board represents California’s dairy farm families who lead the world in producing sustainable, quality milk for products from milk, ice cream and butter to award-winning specialty cheeses. The CMAB works closely with retailers to source and build demand for products made with 100 percent California milk. Visit RealCaliforniaMilk.com/Foodservice and on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube for more information.