Fast-casual restaurant definition
Fast-casual restaurant means a sit-down restaurant with no wait staff or table service. Customers typically order off a menu board and seat themselves. The menu generally contains higher quality made to order food items with fewer frozen or processed ingredients than fast food restaurants. Unlike fast food restaurants, fast- casual restaurants are generally not open late at night, or 24 hours, and any drive- through service, if provided, is secondary to the primary dine-in service.
Fast-casual restaurant means a restaurant with or without drive through that offers higher quality food than fast food restaurants, and that is owned, leased to or operated by or franchised by a national fast casual restaurant brand operating in the United States, including by way of example, but not limited to, national fast casual restaurant brands such as Panda Express, Panera Bread, Chipotle, Jimmy Johns, Five Guys, Starbucks, or Raising Canes.
Fast-casual restaurant means an eating establishment 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 and has a higher dine in ratio than fast food/quick service. Includes quality labeling such as organic, fresh, and local.