Thursday March 5, 2020, 00:00:00

BlackBox Implications for Restaurant Industry Same-Store Sales

By Mark Kalinowski

This is the final report in our series of reports showing the correlation between the widely-watched BlackBox Index — which aggregates same-store sales from 175+ restaurant concepts representing $75 billion in domestic systemwide sales — with various publicly-traded restaurant concepts’ same-store sales.

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Monday July 8, 2019, 00:00:00

Correlating Grubhub Data and U.S. Restaurant Sectors Same-Store Sales Trends

By Mark Kalinowski

With third-party delivery aggregators continuing to grow, providing additional convenience to the consumer, we decided to look at various quarterly data provided by Grubhub (GRUB; Not Rated), correlating these data sets with various sectors’ same-store sales (for U.S. chain restaurants). To do this, we used six different Kalinowski Restaurant Industry Index sector indices, which are sorted by brand type and based on the weighted-average components from 48 different publiclytraded restaurant concepts. (The weightings are based on each concept’s 2018 U.S. systemwide sales, as measured by Technomic.)

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Tuesday June 18, 2019, 00:00:00

Ask the Experts Call Series Black Bear Diner

By Mark Kalinowski

Kalinowski Equity Research invites you to participate in our first “Ask the Experts” conference call, to take place starting at 2:00 PM Eastern time on Thursday, June 27th. The featured speakers will be Bruce Dean, Co-founder and CEO of fast-growing family-dining concept Black Bear Diner; and Anita Adams, President and CFO of Black Bear Diner.

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