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

By Mark Kalinowski Published on October 13, 2020 at 12:00 AM

With this report, we update our data-driven Kalinowski Quick-Service Other Index for Q3E to +4.3%. As a reminder, we define “quick-service other” as all quick-service concepts excluding the pizza, burger, and sandwich categories.

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Restaurants The BlackBox Index for September 2020 Shows More Rebound

By Mark Kalinowski Published on October 8, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Earlier today (Thursday, October 8th), we learned that the BlackBox Index of samestore sales for September 2020 was down by -8.1%, with same-store traffic down by -14.6%. The -8.1% figure is +420 basis points better than the August 2020 number of -12.3%, which itself was +280 basis points better than the July 2020 number of -15.1%.

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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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