Cava (CAVA) is doing something other fast-casual ... battle in restaurants," William Blair analyst Sharon Zackfia told Yahoo Finance. Zackfia added that "Cava has been winning," as casual dining ...

The biggest improvements for price-based value measures in 2023 for fast-casual restaurants came from Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, with a 6.1% percentage change, followed by Boston Market, at 3.7%.

With fast food and fast casual chains increasingly adopting robotic kitchen assistants like Flippy 2, the question of how automation will be applied to restaurants going forward is one that looms ...