Good News! Local Regulatory Requirements May Get Easier
A new report helps cities to streamline complex processes and empower new businesses to open faster. According to Forbes, the economy is bouncing back, and as the pandemic related hurdles fall away for restaurants and small business there are still quite a few obstacles to keep the process difficult. This new report from Institute of […]
Restaurants’ growth plans get stuck in red tape
Operators have increasingly aggressive growth plans, but permitting and construction delays coming out of the pandemic are slowing it all down. According to Restaurant Business Online, delays in approvals for site plans—sometimes lasting months or, in the worst cases, years—have dogged operators eager to get building again. Michael Osanloo, the CEO of Portillo’s says delays […]
Drive-Thru Drag: Construction Delays, Rising Costs
According to Restaurant Dive news, inflation, labor disruption, real estate competition, and supply chain delays are forcing fast food restaurants to get creative with their development for drive-thrus and mobile pickup windows. QSR’s are building smaller, more efficient units with more than one drive-thru, in some cases, to accommodate the rising customer demands for eating […]
What’s New with Fast-Food Drive-Thrus?
As demand continues to skyrocket in the Fast-Food Drive-Thrus channel, the RJ Russo team has been busy on the road. Last week, our latest drive-thru modular building went to Roy, UT. The crew delivered a 2,200 sq. ft. modular building for a commercial developer, and installation was finished in just 6 days from on-site arrival. […]
How Covid Forever Changed the Future of Fast Food Design
In October 2019, the RJ Russo team was delivering the first Dutch Bros. modular drive-thru. We couldn’t have imagined how much the fast food world would change between that delivery day and today. The onset of the pandemic and its lingering effects have changed the future of fast food design forever. Fast food chains including […]
Legacy Business Winddown, Manufactured Buildings on the Rise
RJ Russo has always believed in driving the future of manufacturing. We aim to see everything through our customer’s eyes, ensuring we provide quality products and services at the highest value. And, while we’ve always committed ourselves to these standards, the RJ Russo team is taking a step forward in the manufacturing world by shifting […]
Developers Competing to Open Drive-Thrus in Phoenix
Earlier this month, the Phoenix Business Journal released an article titled, “Developers Competing to Open Drive-Thrus in the Valley.” In it, Travis Fidel, the co-founder and managing partner of Scottsdale-based Radar Capital Partners, broke down insights into fast-food developments in the Phoenix metro area. The demand is for operations with quality food that have drive-thrus […]
Recap: Taco Bell CEO Predicts Drive-Thru Growth Post-Pandemic
In December, The Wall Street Journal sat down with Yum Brands’ CEO David Gibbs. The man behind top quick-service brands like KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut shared his insights on post-pandemic growth in the restaurant industry, as well as lessons he learned along the way. The global COVID-19 crisis caused an almost immediate halt […]
From QSR: 2020’s Top Leadership Lessons from Quick-Service Industry Executives
2020 was a rough year for the restaurant industry. But, out of the desperation of the year, the industry has changed in ways no one ever expected. Late in the year, QSR gave a recap of the Lessons Learned in 2020 – straight from the mouths of quick-service executives who had to take action and […]
Adopting Futuristic Drive-Thru Operations in a COVID-19 World
In July, QSR Magazine posed the question, “What long-term effect will COVID-19 have on restaurant operations and design?” The article, Smaller Footprints, More Drive Thru: Restaurant Design in a COVID World, laid out that rethinking drive-thru order operations has become a necessity in the time of COVID-19. One way restaurants have rapidly changed in 2020 […]