Thursday December 28, 2023, 07:00:00
By Mark Kalinowski
We began publishing our Kalinowski Restaurant Industry Index – a same-store sales index with all components consisting of publicly-traded restaurant concepts, weighted by those concepts’ domestic system sales – back in mid-2018, starting with an index number for Q2 2023. As of this writing, through the end of Q3 2023, we have published 22 index numbers ahead of these components publicly reporting their same-store sales results. In that context, it’s a reasonable question to ask: how has our index performed over time, relative to the eventual, publicly-reported results for the components?
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Wednesday December 27, 2023, 07:02:00
By Mark Kalinowski
With this report, we update our data-driven Kalinowski Quick-Service Burger Index for Q4 to +4.5%. This is the one-year figure, lapping the +4.7% number from Q4 2020, the +6.1% figure from Q4 2021, and the +8.7% number from Q4 2022. Comparing to Q4 2019 levels — a four-year (pre-pandemic) basis — the Kalinowski Quick-Service Burger Index for Q4 2023 is at +26.2%. These numbers are based on our latest proprietary checks/data as regards same-store sales performance for this segment during October, November, and early-to-mid December.
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Thursday December 21, 2023, 11:26:53
By Mark Kalinowski
A video at the following link shows KMPH-TV – a Fox affiliate in the Fresno, California market — reporting that “Delivery drivers with Pizza Hut say they will no longer have a job starting next year. Pizza Hut plans to lay off all of its delivery drivers in California, and start using third-party delivery services.”
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