concepts

The ‘Brangelinas’ of restaurants

There aren’t enough words to describe today’s mishmash of concepts.

Operations

Are wings places the next wave in fast casual?

Full-service chicken-wing chains are hatching quick-serve spinoffs.

Cleveland Avenue, headed by a former McDonald's CEO, has ties to other emerging concepts.

The wave of headless restaurants has been rolling into the off-premise ecosystem. But recent closures of early entrants indicate that the waters are not calm.

These restaurant concepts are proving themselves in food halls, pop-ups and more.

The folks in green aprons are changing roles in what the company calls Deployment 2.0, and that's just one of the developments that turned heads in the restaurant industry this week.

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