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Fast casual food restaurant

#Revenue growth #Food & Beverage #Quick Service Restaurant #Fast Casual Dining
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This is an interviewer-driven case focused on revenue growth strategy in a mature market facing saturation concerns. The candidate must demonstrate structured thinking across multiple growth levers (new dayparts, alternative channels, geographic expansion, pricing, and adjacent segments) while performing financial calculations to validate business cases.

Estimated Time 15 minutes
Difficulty Medium
Source PeterK
50 / 100
Your client is a fast casual healthy food restaurant (e.g. salads, wraps, soups). They have 1k locations in the U.S. and are growing to 2k locations across the U.S. and Europe by 2021 (it’s currently 2018). The company is afraid that they will saturate the market after their expansion. How can they continue growing if that happens?

Clarifying Information

  1. The client serves only lunches and dinners.
  2. We don’t know much about the competitive landscape and the fast casual food market dynamics.
  3. The client hasn’t shared any revenue goals.
  4. They aren’t in Europe yet, but plan to enter it this year.