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Covid has treated a massive blow to the American restaurant industry, forcing some beloved restaurantsbankrupt or forgo doors forever. This summer,hundreds of chain restaurant sites Closed shop, but the move may have been a slim slim sad but needed.

In reality,some Restaurant Channels Take advantage of a bit of the Renaissance in 2020 which sets them up for a major success of the coming year. This is particularly true for those who have ingenuity (and capital) to pivot their concentration on the pandemic-era - aka more convenience,comfort, value and yes, minimalcontact.

The following dining chains seem to have all these resources and goals in common, which is why we think you see many of them ... Well, everywhere, while we are heading around 2021 and beyond. (But first, please join us in the observation of a moment of silence for theseSaddest restaurant closures of each state.)

Chipotle sales have essentiallyexploded since the pandemic has started. According to the website of the restaurant industry,Diving restaurantA large part of the success of Chipotle can be attributed to the substantial investment of the company in its digital activity before the pandemic. This digital company, which includes mobile routes, delivery and mobile pickups (Dubbed "Chipotlanes"), has been so effective that it is now planned to exceed $ 2.5 billion from here the End of 2020, according to CEOBrian Niccols.

Now, with the opening of his firstsingle digital restaurant,Chipotle is about to develop in urban markets where spatial limitationswould have have excluded interior dinnersif The pandemic had not arrived first. Assuming that his taking on the "ghost cuisine"Does the rest of his disadvantagePost-pandemic restaurant styleYou should prepare to see a lot more chipotle over the next year (although not necessarily in person).

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Even ifDomino struggled during the pandemic, he closed onlya store during the second quarter of 2020.SThe ALES crossed the roof and plans of the company to expand at 25,000 locations by 2025 are still rumbling., -Albeit, reports, reportsRestaurant Business.

So, what is the secret of the Pizza Pizza Pizza Force based in Ann? Domino's has been ahead of the innovation curve for most of its60 years in the business. In fact, the pizza chain at Fast Food is so farbefore the curve of innovation that everything can be the OGghost cuisineIts massive business model could be impossible for new restaurants to imitate, according toBusiness's restaurantThe bottom line.

A year before the pandemic stroke, Louisville, Kentucky's pizza chain, Papa John's was "fog", reportedRestaurant Business. Today, Papa John's is on a roll, withRecord sales and plans to develop a total of 1,380 new locations, including180 in North America.

While expansion is usually a good thing for chain restaurants, it should not be on your personal task list. So, if you plan to participate in Papa John's, the best stick with theChoice of healthy pizza-And consider the direction of the grilled buffalo chicken chicken, which has just made our sleep list28 Fast Food the most unhealthy 2020.

KFC has a lot of things in favor of his favor for the moment. Not only does he have a new sexy Sanders Colonel who looks like a striking likeness toMario Lopezhe also has a convictionNew restaurant model In mind, one who promises to make the notion of human contact (at least in the context of picking up an original recipe bucket) obsolete.

On aplan Desijed by KFC in mid-November, new KFC restaurants should include "Cubbies" specially designed for BOPUS (Buy-Online-Pickup-In-Store), twice as many passed paths, improved parking for the benefit of pilots from Delivery and collection of the Borbure. here are theBest and worst foods (From a health point of view) that you can get from KFC.

Of course, McDonald'sClosed 200 pitchesThis year. But since he started with34,000, It's less than 1% of his footprint. In addition, the pandemic has manufactured only McDonald sales, air transport sales sales, which have tripled, according toRestaurant Business.

So it seems that McDonald would not soon soon ... other than new places with suchinnovations as fewer seats (if seats at all), conveying belts, andAutomated control(As in no human is involved, except maybe you). And do not missThese 8 major upgrades already in deployment.

Another chain restaurant that saw closures following the pandemic isBurger King. In addition, the house of theImpossible whopper Main major pre-pandemic expansion plans. However, since replaced with plans for the "Restaurant of tomorrow. "

Starting from 2021, Burger King will start launching newly designed rooms of 60% smaller than their current design and whose reader will have aconveyor belt which gives food directly to your car. Here is more than theSurprising changes The new state-of-the-art locations of Burger King are in store.

Although Smallburger closed 78 locations over the last three years, fragile for "Best Hamburgers"Gagnary the chain has a 436.7% increase in digital controls. Fees of this success, the new target of Smashburger isOpen 40 or more locations in 2021. And did we mention that you will soon be able to getbreakfast the?

To help ensure its success, Smashburger plans to continue itsPositive pandemic Approach with a contactless Cubby-Cubby-System system, a more intuitive Curbside support system and an update of its application and its website to provide a faster and frictionless experience.

Maybe you know the dickey barbecue pit for hisCustomer Reward Programs whereValentine's Day offer This promises practically that you will be lucky (with a generous part of Texas style fumes and tasty sides at a fairly reasonable price). But CEO, Laura Rea Dickey, hope you will also enjoy the fact that Dickey adds not only virtual kitchens to its current programming of nearly 500 locations, but also online training for its barbecue masters.

"During this next year, we focus on upgrading our barbecue university online program," said DickeyEat this, not that!"And although there is no compare to a practical experience of the training or the cutting of the chest, our advanced program aims to give franchisees and crews of Pittes an opportunity to improve their skills everywhere where they work. "

In one year in which people have just stayed at home, you would think it could be difficult for a lobster theme restaurant to keep your head over the water. But nolobster. In fact, sales of the red lobster of delivery orders havetriple during the pandemic.

Rolling this wave, the seafood giant announced in mid-November that he opened his first "guest cuisine", choosing the city center of Chicago as a place. As CEO Kim Lopdrup says in aPress releaseThis movement "will allow us to reach new customers who are not currently serviced by our existing brick and mortar restaurants." Lopdrup also noted that the opening of a ghost kitchen is an "next natural step in the expansion" red lobster business. Before you place your order, here isWhich plans experts recommend from the menu of the red lobster.

Withobesity (and related conditions) having been identified as a risk factor for a more severe Covid-19 disease,balanced diet has never been as important as now. Unfortunately, Covid-19 also placed the Kibhsh on the salad bar, leaving Americans with the choice to make the preparation of their own salads or to give up the salad in the foreseeable future. This is where the tailor-made national salad chain,Salads, Between.

Saladworks calmly makes salads to order for 34 years. But the pandemic has raised its profile significantly. In addition to opening a number of ghost kitchens throughout 2020, he also works to fill the void left by the loss of grocery store salad bar. Saladworks opened sevenPublics in grocery stores So far and consider opening another in the first quarter of 2021. So even if the salad production chain was never on your radar before, you can expect to see many more than go forward.

As you could have discerned from the name, Hoots Wings is a fast workshop of the complete service restaurant chain,HowlerSpecialized in ... wings. His first location opened in Chicago 2017, followed by six others. Despite this, the Hooters had to fire hundreds of workers in the first month after the start of the lock-floors related to the pandemic, you should expect to seea lotMore hoot wings in the coming years. In fact, the company expects it will open 17 new locations in 2021, 35 EN 2022 and 50 in 2023.

How is it possible, you might ask you? By franchising, according to aPress release, which also emphasizes that Hoots Wings requires onlyof themequipment parts to operate.

As we can see successful successes to the Pandemic of Domino and Papa John's, it is unlikely that everything that will ever have in the way of Americans and their pizza. Except maybe ... chicken wings. Chicken wings have become a national obsession during the pandemic and a number of catering channels have now launched virtual kitchens devoted exclusively or closely for serving chicken wings without dinners.

These chainsunderstand:

-Brinker had chili and Maggiano belonging to the delivery, which only offer chicken wings to delivery of more than 1,000 locations under the name of the brand, "These are just wings."
-Applelebee's's, which has launched neighborhood wings during the spring.
-Chuck E. Cheese, which launched the pizza and the wings of Pasqualy this summer.
-Smokey OS, which opened the wing experience in all 61 sites this summer.
-Fazoli, who opened Wingville in the fall.

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