It’s the rare restaurant company that has a research and development line item in its accounting statements. This omission demonstrates a lack of understanding of the importance of R&D to the bottom line, as...
Knapp-Track’s estimate of the casual-dining category’s average same-store sales performance for December is an overall decline of 3.4 percent, making it the worst month of 2007.By comparison, the sector’s same-store...
Hampered by still-slumping guest traffic, casual-dining restaurants sustained another decline in same-store sales in September, which we estimate was an average dip of 1.1 percent—the fifth-worst monthly slippage of...
The midweek Fourth of July holiday and the subprime mortgage crisis dealt a blow to guest traffic at casual dinnerhouses in July, but operators still were expected to post better results than they had the year earlier...
