Updating our Q4E Kalinowski Quick-Service Other Same-Store Sales Index 1.19

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

With this report, we update our data-driven Kalinowski Quick-Service Other Index for Q4E from +2.2% to +3.1%. This 90 basis-point increase is based on our latest proprietary checks/data as regards same-store sales performance for the second half of November and all of December.

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The BlackBox Index for December 2018 (and Q4 2018) is…

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

Earlier today (Thursday, January 10th), we learned that the BlackBox Index of samestore sales for December 2018 was +2.0%, with same-store traffic down by -0.9%. The December 2018 number was the best month since August 2015.

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Updating our Q4E19 Kalinowski Family Dining Index (Again)

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

With this report, we update our data-driven Kalinowski Family Dining Index for Q4E from +1.6% to +2.0%. This 40 basis-point increase is based on our latest proprietary checks/data as regards same-store sales performance so far for this segment during the second half of November and the first half of December. (We would note that this increase follows the 40 basis-point increase we already made to this index back on December 3rd; for more details please refer to our report of that date entitled “Updating our Q4E Kalinowski Family Dining Index.”)

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