It’s a time of transition for the greater restaurant industry.
Last year, however, turned out quite well for steakhouses.
In pursuit of more food for their money,customers returned to steakhouse dining roomsin droves.
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Texas Roadhouse, for example,reached $4 billion in salesfor the first time ever in 2022.
The inflation issue, meanwhile, is far from over.
Texas Roadhouse, on the other hand, justannounced a menu-wide price increase of 2.2%.
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What else does 2023 have in store for steakhouse chains and patrons?
Let’s take a look atfive big changes you’ll see at steakhouses soon.
All this is about bringing in restaurant traffic back to pre-pandemic levels."
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“We’re just Fogo de Chao.
We’re not a churrascaria.
We’re not a steakhouse.
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We don’t have to be prototypical,“he told us in a recent interview.
“Our demographic is 87% Millennial and Gen Z.
We are a whole different occasion than a fine-dining steakhouse.
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We’re just unique in the space.”
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As of February 2023, Roadhouse Pay was already live across over 600 restaurants.
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That means no more paper ticket orders.
A new Texas Roadhouse location that justopened in the Kansas City, Mo.
Currently sitting at around 700 locations, Texas Roadhouse isaiming for 900 restaurantsin the not-so-distant future.
To that end, about 25-30 new units are slated to open in 2023 alone.
“We know long term we can have 600 restaurants in America,” he noted.
That said, having dealt with multiple bankruptcies, the company is also no stranger to adversity.
Today, there areroughly 70 domestic Sizzler locations.
One classic Sizzler feature that isn’t changing, however, is the all-you-can-eat salad bar.
The first redesigned Sizzler just opened a few months ago in Corona, California.
