BlackBox Implications for Restaurant Industry Same-Store Sales

By Mark Kalinowski Published on March 5, 2020 at 12:00 AM

This is the final report in our series of reports showing the correlation between the widely-watched BlackBox Index — which aggregates same-store sales from 175+ restaurant concepts representing $75 billion in domestic systemwide sales — with various publicly-traded restaurant concepts’ same-store sales.

Updating our Q2E19 Kalinowski Fine Dining Same-Store Sales Index

By Mark Kalinowski Published on May 20, 2019 at 12:00 AM

With this report, we increase our data-driven Kalinowski Fine Dining Index for Q2E by +50 basis points, to +2.0%. 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.

Introducing our Q1E Kalinowski Fine Dining Index

By Mark Kalinowski Published on March 6, 2019 at 12:00 AM

With this report, we introduce our data-driven Kalinowski Fine Dining Index for Q1E at +1.1%. 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.