Thursday July 20, 2023, 07:00:00

MCD: Part 2 of McDonald’s Franchisee Survey Discusses Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

By Mark Kalinowski

Today we publish part two of two of the July 2023 edition of our proprietary McDonald’s Franchisee Survey. This report examines whether our franchisee respondents would like to sell Krispy Kreme (KREM; Not Rated) doughnuts in their own McDonald’s restaurants. As a reminder, back on June 29th, we published a report in which we indicated that we believe the 160 McDonald’s restaurants in Kentucky testing the sale of Krispy Kreme doughnuts in those restaurants are seeing average weekly sales of 800-900 doughnuts per restaurant. In addition, those sales appear to be highly incremental. Furthermore, an argument can be made that the sales of the Krispy Kreme doughnuts are helping to drive incremental sales of some non-doughnut menu items. For more info:

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Thursday July 20, 2023, 07:00:00

MCD: Part 2 of McDonald’s Franchisee Survey Discusses Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

By Mark Kalinowski

Today we publish part two of two of the July 2023 edition of our proprietary McDonald’s Franchisee Survey. This report examines whether our franchisee respondents would like to sell Krispy Kreme (KREM; Not Rated) doughnuts in their own McDonald’s restaurants. As a reminder, back on June 29th, we published a report in which we indicated that we believe the 160 McDonald’s restaurants in Kentucky testing the sale of Krispy Kreme doughnuts in those restaurants are seeing average weekly sales of 800-900 doughnuts per restaurant. In addition, those sales appear to be highly incremental. Furthermore, an argument can be made that the sales of the Krispy Kreme doughnuts are helping to drive incremental sales of some non-doughnut menu items. For more info:

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Wednesday July 19, 2023, 07:00:00

MCD: Latest Franchisee Survey Showcases Strong U.S. Sales Trends

By Mark Kalinowski

McDonald’s plans to release its second-quarter earnings before the market open on Thursday, July 27th. Ahead of that, we publish part one of our two-part, proprietary McDonald’s Franchisee Survey today. Look for part two later this week.

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