22 Feb 2010

[BREAKING] Fifth Annual Fast Casual Top 100 Movers & Shakers

Today we released our 5th Annual Fast Casual Top 100 Movers and Shakers list.  I wanted to personally congratulate the top 10.  As you can imagine we toiled over this project for several months with our industry experts.  After compiling mountains of data, a flurry of secret and special conference calls and much heated but constructive discussion, we reached the result of what is this years coveted Top 100 list.

A special thanks goes to Darren Tristano of Technomic, Janelle Barlow of Branded Service and our three fantastic editors starting with Valerie Killifer of Fastcasual.com, Christa Hoyland of QSRweb.com and Jennifer Litz of PizzaMarketplace.com.   They deserve a great amount of appreciation for their hard work and dedication to the Fast Casual segment!

Congratulations goes out to our Top 10:

  1. Mooyah Burgers & Fries - Dallas
  2. Genghis Grill - Dallas
  3. Beautiful Brands - Tulsa
  4. Pizza Fusion - Fort Lauderdale
  5. Rubio's - San Diego
  6. Firehouse Subs - Jacksonville
  7. Au Bon Pain - Boston
  8. Einstein Bagels - Lakewood Co
  9. Zoup! - Detroit
  10. Fast Casual Alliance - Washington DC (Now part of the NRA)

The list is filled with awesome concepts and new segment leaders.  We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed working on this amazing list for our Fifth Annual!  Download the list here!

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