DENN “Ask the Experts” Call Series Denny’s

By Mark Kalinowski Published on October 6, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Kalinowski Equity Research invites you to participate in our latest “Ask the Experts” conference call, to take place on Tuesday, November 10th starting at 11:00 AM Eastern time. The featured speakers from Denny’s will include: (1) President Mark Wolfinger, (2) Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert Verostek, (3) Vice President Investor Relations and Financial Planning & Analysis Curt Nichols, and (4) Director Investor Relations and Financial Planning & Analysis Kayla Money.

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MCD “Colores” Us Impressed Updating Our Q3E Forecasts (Again)

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

For the second time in a month, we raise our Q3E same-store sales forecast for McDonald’s U.S. — this time by +60 basis points, to +3.6%. This is based on robust same-store sales from the second half of September, thanks largely to: (1) a limitedtime promotional tie-in with rapper Travis Scott (which launched September 8th), and (2) a limited-time offer featuring Spicy Chicken McNuggets (which launched September 16th). Both of these promotions did so well that at times restaurants were sold out of the items involved well before the official promotional end dates.

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Updating our Q3E Kalinowski Quick-Service Pizza Same-Store Sales Index

By Mark Kalinowski Published on October 1, 2020 at 12:00 AM

With this report, we update our data-driven Kalinowski Quick-Service Pizza Index for Q3E to +13.6%. This figure is based on our latest proprietary checks/data as regards same-store sales performance for this segment during July, August, and September.

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