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Picture: Willie Lawless, Networld Media Group
June 16, 2025
Fast-service restaurant operators looking for to navigate the evolving trade panorama will achieve important insights into know-how, operations, advertising and marketing and menu innovation at #QSRNext, a half-day digital summit hosted by Networld Media Group, the publishers of FastCasual.com and QSRWeb.com.
Scheduled for Nov. 12, 2025, #QSRNext presents a collection of 20-minute, back-to-back periods designed to equip busy fast-food executives with actionable methods to drive profitability and improve buyer expertise, stated host Cherryh Cansler, writer of FastCasua.com.
Featured panelists embrace:
- Jackie Secor, COO, Taco John’s.
- Rohan Shearer, SVP, chief administrative officer, Sbarro.
- James O’Reilly, CEO, Ascent Hospitality.
- Shak Turner, director of Franchise Enlargement, Wienersnitzel’s.
- Allison Lauenstein, president, QSR Division, FAT Manufacturers,
- Jake Berchtold, COO, FAT Manufacturers, Quick Informal Division.
- Extra speaker bulletins coming quickly.
“These executives from ‘within the trenches’ will share their experience and supply sensible takeaways, and the digital format permits for handy participation, making certain that leaders achieve helpful information with out in depth time commitments,” Cansler stated.
The summit is free for certified restaurant operators and homeowners. Register right here.
Key areas of focus will embrace present and future menu developments, exploring every thing from plant-based choices and world flavors to customization and the affect of know-how on culinary choices. The summit may also deal with progressive supply methods and the cutting-edge know-how driving them, in addition to finest practices for optimizing loyalty and e-commerce platforms to spice up income and buyer retention.
Moreover, periods will cowl essential features of management improvement, methods for managing organizational change, and strategies for empowering high-performing groups, all aimed toward serving to eating places keep profitability in a aggressive market.
