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This type of restaurant does not offer full table service. It gives a higher quality of food than fast food places. The fast casual restaurants use fewer frozen or processed ingredients than a fast food restaurant.<ref name=regret/>  

This type of restaurant does not offer full table service. It gives a higher quality of food than fast food places. The fast casual restaurants use fewer frozen or processed ingredients than a fast food restaurant.<ref name=regret/>  

The promoters of this idea see it as fitting between fast food and what they call "[[casual dining]]". By 'casual dining' they mean chains like [[TGI Friday's]] and [[Applebee's]] in the U.S. and [[Harvester (restaurant)|Harvester]] in the U.K.  

The promoters of this idea see it as fitting between fast food and what they call "[[casual dining]]". By 'casual dining' they mean [[Restaurant chain|chains]] like [[TGI Friday's]] and [[Applebee's]] in the U.S. and [[Harvester (restaurant)|Harvester]] in the U.K.  

The typical cost per meal in a fast casual is in the $8–$15 range.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fastcasual.com/ |title=Fast Casual – insights for innovative restaurants |publisher=FastCasual.com |access-date=29 June 2011}}</ref> Typical examples of fast casual restaurants in the U.S. are [[Chipotle Mexican Grill]], [[Culvers]], and [[Panera]].<ref name=regret>{{cite news |author=Julia Moskin |title=Hold the regret? Fast food seeks virtuous side |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/nyregion/26fastfood.html |quote=These ambitious new chains make up only a sliver of the nation’s $683 billion restaurant industry. But all are within its swiftest-growing segment, “fast-casual,” a subset of fast food that includes places like Chipotle and Panera, whose offerings are marketed as a rung or two higher than those of [[Burger King]] or [[Taco Bell]]: fewer frozen and highly processed ingredients, more-comfortable seats, better coffee and (sometimes) healthier food. |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=July 25, 2014 |access-date=2014-07-27 }}</ref>

The typical cost per meal in a fast casual is in the $8–$15 range.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fastcasual.com/ |title=Fast Casual – insights for innovative restaurants |publisher=FastCasual.com |access-date=29 June 2011}}</ref> Typical examples of fast casual restaurants in the U.S. are [[Chipotle Mexican Grill]], [[Culvers]], and [[Panera]].<ref name=regret>{{cite news |author=Julia Moskin |title=Hold the regret? Fast food seeks virtuous side |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/nyregion/26fastfood.html |quote=These ambitious new chains make up only a sliver of the nation’s $683 billion restaurant industry. But all are within its swiftest-growing segment, “fast-casual,” a subset of fast food that includes places like Chipotle and Panera, whose offerings are marketed as a rung or two higher than those of [[Burger King]] or [[Taco Bell]]: fewer frozen and highly processed ingredients, more-comfortable seats, better coffee and (sometimes) healthier food. |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=July 25, 2014 |access-date=2014-07-27 }}</ref>

== Fast Casual Restaurant Media ==

== Fast Casual Restaurant Media ==

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File:5.2.11SoulDaddyOpeningDayByLuigiNovi7.jpg|Customers dining and ordering at a New York City branch of [[Soul Daddy]]

File:5.2.11SoulDaddyOpeningDayByLuigiNovi7.jpg|Customers dining and ordering at a (now [[Chipotle Mexican Grill|Chipotle]]) [[Soul Daddy]] outlet in [[South Street Seaport]], [[Manhattan]], N.Y. in 2011

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== References ==

== References ==