Thursday August 22, 2024, 07:00:00
By Mark Kalinowski
In this report, we look at the specific fiscal year-ends for 30 restaurant companies, and note when the next 53-week fiscal year will be for many of them.
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Tuesday August 20, 2024, 07:00:00
By Mark Kalinowski
In this report, we look at the correlations for McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, and Jack in the Box in terms of their respective domestic same-store sales. This should help answer questions such as, “When McDonald’s sales go down, does that tend to be a good sign, or a bad sign, for the same-store sales trends of Wendy’s?”
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Thursday August 15, 2024, 09:07:08
By Mark Kalinowski
Data out today from the U.S. Census shows that restaurants’ market share (with grocery stores/supermarkets making up the other component) was 55.8% in July 2024. Putting a silver lining on it, this 55.8% figure is only -50 basis points below the all-time monthly record. However, it’s up by only +10 basis points year-over-year. This is the smallest year-over-year market-share gain for the restaurant industry since it gave up -710 basis points of share in a pandemic-affected February 2021 (which lapped a pre-pandemic February 2020).
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