Updating our Q3E Kalinowski Fast-Casual Same-Store Sales Index

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

With this report, we update our data-driven Kalinowski Fast-Casual Index for Q3E to +3.6%. While the overall number for the fast-casual sector is in positive territory for Q3, there is a wide variety of performances in terms of same-store sales by individual brand. Wingstop (WING; Not Rated) has already reported +25.4% same-store sales growth for its Q3, and we would not be surprised to see Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG; Not Rated) exceed sell-side consensus (according to Consensus Metrix) of +6.4% when it reports its Q3 results on after the market close on Wednesday, October 21st.

Casual Dining Market Share Opportunities for Large Concepts 6.25

By Mark Kalinowski Published on June 25, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Is it possible the Street is underestimating sales and market-share opportunities in 2021 for many of the larger publicly-traded casual dining concepts?

Updating our Q2E19 Kalinowski Fast-Casual Same-Store Sales Index

By Mark Kalinowski Published on May 23, 2019 at 12:00 AM

With this report, we increase our data-driven Kalinowski Fast-Casual Index for Q2E by +100 basis points, to +5.4%. This figure is based on our latest proprietary checks/ data as regards same-store sales performance for this segment during April 2019 and the first half of May 2019.