A Quick Look at the Fastest-Growing Restaurant Brands in the U.S.

By Mark Kalinowski Published on April 10, 2019 at 12:00 AM

During 2018, 175 restaurant brands generated at least $200 million in U.S. systemwide sales, according to data compiled by Technomic. For these 175 brands, which ones were the fastest growing? In this report, we look at the top 20 brands of these 175 that expanded their U.S. systemwide sales at the fastest rate last year.

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Introducing our Q1E19 Kalinowski Casual Dining Index

By Mark Kalinowski Published on March 12, 2019 at 12:00 AM

With this report, we introduce our data-driven Kalinowski Casual Dining Index for Q1E at +1.9%. This figure is based on our latest proprietary checks/data as regards samestore sales performance for this segment during January 2019 and most of February 2019.

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Updating our Q4E19 Kalinowski Casual Dining Same-Store Sales Index (Again)

By Mark Kalinowski Published on January 28, 2019 at 12:00 AM

With this report, we (again) raise our data-driven Kalinowski Casual Dining Index for Q4E, this time around from +2.1% to +3.1%. This 100 basis-point increase is based on our latest proprietary checks/data as regards same-store sales performance for this segment during the second half of November and all of December. (We had previously increased our Kalinowski Casual Dining Index for Q4E from +1.6% to +2.1% back on December 4th.)

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