Success of Fast Casual Restaurant Chains Will Influence Restaurant Industry in 2012 and Beyond
If imitation is the highest form of flattery then successful fast casual restaurant chains should be flattered because increasingly other restaurants are adopting their winning strategies, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company. NPD’s foodservice market research reports that fast casual is the only restaurant segment continuing to grow throughout the current economic times, which has motivated chains in other restaurant segments to renovate and upgrade and enhance menu selections to compete with fast casual chains.
Fast casual restaurants are considered to be upscale quick service restaurant (QSR) concepts that offer more service, higher quality food, and have a larger average check size than other fast food restaurants. Although still relatively underdeveloped, major fast casual chain units increased by a double-digit rate over the last three years, according to NPD’s Recount®, a biannual census of restaurant unit counts. A recently released NPD report, entitled Fast Casual A Growing Market, finds that even with this unit growth, consumer demand outpaced the rate of unit expansion, reflecting higher levels of consumer satisfaction with the fast casual experience. In addition, several leading fast casual chains have built strong customer loyalty.
DyStar Joins Sustainable Apparel Coalition
DyStar is happy to announce that it’s joined the Sustainable attire Coalition (SAC), the collaborative venture established in 2011 by leading attire retailers, suppliers and makers with participation from teachers and NGOs. the most objective of the SAC is to develop an attire Index that takes a full life-cycle read of an attire product and identifies all major social and environmental impacts along the assembly chain from cradle to grave.
Dyes and chemicals are a key space of interest for the SAC as not solely do they add important price to the attire in terms of color and performance however they will even have a serious environmental impact at the wet processing stage of cloth production.
DyStar is that the leading international provider of dyes and chemicals to the textile trade and not solely features a long history of action to cut back the environmental impact of the provision chain however conjointly recently issued its 1st company Sustainability Report ready in line with GRI principles.
DyStar already works closely with several of the whole and retailer members of the SAC in making seasonal color palettes through its Color Solutions International business headquartered in Charlotte, NC and in making certain compliance of its product with Restricted Substance List needs through its econfidence program.
Combining Your Digital Photos into Stunning Collages with Picture Collage Maker for Mac
PearlMountain Technology has recently announced the new unharness of image Collage Maker for Mac, that is an easy-to-use app that helps you produce eye-catching photo collages on the Mac OS X. This program provides 100+ deluxe templates and offers powerful editing functions therefore you’ll produce personalised photo collages, greeting cards, scrapbooks, posters and photo albums with none help, which supplies you contemporary, new ways that to share your digital photos on the Mac OS X.
The program comes with 100+ artistic templates to help you in creating marvelous photo collages for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and the other special moment in life. simply opt for a method you prefer, and then choose between the exhaustive list of clipart, frames, masks and background resources provided to garnish your collage. creating a collage is easy and straightforward, whether or not you’re an off-the-cuff user or skilled photographer, you’ll master creating collages simply with this new software.
As easy because the program is, it offers powerful editing options that you just will use to let your imagination run wild, extend your creativity to its limits, to feature photos to collage; apply frames and masks to photos; beautify the collage with clipart; add text; set the collage size and background; modify position, rotation and size of elements; etc. this may create your collages a lot of enticing and distinctive. The multi-export tool permits you to export the collage as a Jpg, Tiff, Bmp, Png or Gif format. you’ll conjointly export the collage as a PDF file, set it as wallpaper, or e-mail it to your friends or relations to share the collage.
Belk to Paint Stores Red in February in “Our Heart to Yours” Campaign Benefiting American Heart Association
Belk is painting its stores red throughout yank Heart Month in February as a part of its annual storewide “Our Heart to Yours” campaign. The campaign is being conducted in partnership with the yank Heart Association and its My Heart. My Life. initiative to push health, wellness and fitness and increase heart disease awareness and education.
Belk stores in sixteen states across the South can host a range of in-store events and activities, and therefore the ?Our Heart To Yours? web site (Belk com/ heart) can provide an internet interactive heart health academic expertise throughout the month.
?Heart disease is that the leading killer of girls in America, and Belk is proud to partner with the yank Heart Association in a shot to coach customers and associates on the importance of leading healthier lifestyles,? said Jon Pollack, Belk, Inc. govt vp, marketing, promoting and e-commerce. ?Each year, Belk strives to form a lot of awareness and a lot of education for heart health, and we?re excited to hitch forces with such an incredible organization in a shot to increase this vital message in our stores and on Belk com
ItsHot.com Announces Valentine’s Day Offer of up to 80 % Discounts On Its Line Of Mens Diamond Watches And Womens Diamond Watches
ItsHot com has return up with the newest provide of up to eightieth discount on all its men’s diamond watches and womens diamond watches. Celebrating this Valentine season, the web diamond jewellery store has launched the provide to cater its customers with the most effective of diamond watches at reasonable costs. the shop offers its valued customers an exclusive and made assortment of men’s furthermore as women diamond watches from leading watchmakers like Gucci, Joe Rodeo, Cartier, Jacob and Co, Luxurman, Aqua Master, Centorum, Chanel and plenty of others to decide on from.
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