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Odd Burger’s First Campus Location

Odd Burger opened its first on-campus nontraditional location in London, Ontario at Western University.

New Faces of Fast-Casual: Slutty Vegan

A Vegan Restaurant Designed to Feel Restorative Inside and Out

Wildseed is a health-focused, vegan restaurant that was designed to feel restorative inside and out. The resulting restaurants offer a lively and energetic take on biophilic design.

The Consumer: How 3 Brands Are Working to Keep Their Eyes on the Prize

Keeping tabs on target consumer groups — not just who, where and what they are, but digging deeper for insights into why they do what they do, go where they go, buy what they buy, shop how they shop — has become a critical business strategy.

Café Gratitude Keeps it Natural

This California Vegan chain is updating its locations, giving each its own personality but keeping a California feel.

4 Best Practices for Developing Suburban Locations

Moving out: here are 4 best practices for moving a brand into suburban locales.

Heat-and-Eat Concept Signs Multi-Unit Franchise Deal

Healthy James is a health-conscious “heat and eat” concept that offers meals, supplements, smoothies and fresh juices for people on the go.

Design Market: St. Louis

From a Space-Age-meets-punk-rock burger joint to a veg-forward eatery with an on-site garden, anything goes in The Lou.

DIRT Offers Surprises, Creative use of a Narrow Space

Based in Miami, DIRT describes itself as a place where “clean eating and great taste coexist.”

Veggie Grill Takes Root in Chicago’s Restaurant Row

Veggie Grill, a plant-based fast-casual restaurant chain opened a location in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood.

NYC Better Burger Chain Debuts New Prototype, Vegan Offerings

New York City-based Bareburger, specializing in what it calls “clean comfort food” opened a new location in New York Upper West Side neighborhood with a refreshed design in honor of the chain’s tenth anniversary.

Vegan Beer Garden Opens in California

Though California and Germany both have outdoor dining traditions, the two aren’t often connected. They are brought together at Hinterhof, a new Vegan beer garden located in Los Angeles. The restaurant opened in January with interior design, architecture and landscape design by Aaron Neubert, founding principal and design director at Aaron Neubert Architects.

Plant-Based Concept Opens in Toronto

Chase Hospitality Group opened Planta Burger in Toronto’s financial district on Sept. 5.

New Fast-Casual Vegan Concept stakes a Claim in New York

E Squared Hospitality (E2), the New York City–based group behind such beefy full-service brands as BLT Steak, BLT Prime and BLT Burger, last summer added a fresh new face to its portfolio — one that takes the company in a couple of new directions. The company’s first fast-casual venture, by CHLOE., opened in August near the New York University (NYU) campus. It’s also 100 percent vegan — from the burgers to the fabric on the banquette. What’s

KINDRED in San Diego Combines Cocktails with Vegan Fare

Acclaimed hospitality designer Paul Basile of BASILE Studio (Ironside Fish & Oyster, UnderBelly, Craft & Commerce) teamed with up-and-coming restaurateur Kory Stetina to open KINDRED, a San Diego-based cocktail bar and vegan restaurant concept. The operation features a creative design interplay of dark and light, masculine and feminine and ornate flourishes coupled with rebellious illustrations.

Native Foods Café Expands to D.C.

Fast-casual vegan restaurant chain Native Foods Cafe has opened the first of eight units planned for the Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia market.