WEN Updating Forecasts on Planned 2020 Nationwide Breakfast Launch

By Mark Kalinowski Published on September 9, 2019 at 12:00 AM

After today’s (Monday’s) market close, Wendy’s (WEN; Buy) announced it plans to launch breakfast nationwide during 2020 — and that as part of this, it’s lowering its financial targets for 2019, and removing its financial targets for 2020. The shares are down in after-market trading by about -5% as of this writing.

DIN Enjoying an IHOP House-Made Milkshake as We Update Our Forecasts

By Mark Kalinowski Published on May 31, 2019 at 12:00 AM

With this report, we update our Q2E same-store sales forecasts for both brands owned by Dine Brands (DIN; Buy).

Updating our Q2E19 Kalinowski Family Dining Same-Store Sales Index

By Mark Kalinowski Published on May 17, 2019 at 12:00 AM

With this report, we update our data-driven Kalinowski Family Dining Index for Q2E to +2.4% (up from +2.1% previously). Our updated 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.