Restaurants: BlackBox Index Rises on a Two-Year Basis for May 2021

By Ryan D. Lavender Published on June 10, 2021 at 5:22 PM

Earlier today (Thursday, June 10th), we learned that the BlackBox Index of samestore sales for May 2021 — importantly, these data points are on a two-year basis — was up by +5.4%, with two-year traffic off by -5.3%.

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Restaurants: BlackBox Index Up on a Two-Year Basis for March 2021

By Ryan D. Lavender Published on April 15, 2021 at 5:42 PM

Earlier today (Thursday, April 15th), we learned that the BlackBox Index of samestore sales for March 2021 — importantly, these data points are on a two-year basis — was up by +1.8%, with two-year traffic off by -9.4%.

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Updating our Q4E Kalinowski Fine Dining Same-Store Sales Index

By Mark Kalinowski Published on December 7, 2020 at 12:00 AM

With this report, we update our data-driven Kalinowski Fine Dining Index for Q4E to -28.8%. This figure is based on our latest proprietary checks/data as regards samestore sales performance for this segment during October and November. Our implied numbers for this October, November, and December are approximately -25%, -28%, and -33%, respectively.

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