Sales Trends

This post is part of the On the Margin blog. Arby’s customers have apparently taken a liking to the chain's new Sliders. The Atlanta-based sandwich QSR said that it sold 29 million sliders in its debut month of September. That’s about 1 mil...

Analyst survey suggests chain's 4Q same-store sales could tick up

This post is part of the On the Margin blog. The third quarter of 2013 wasn’t a great one for McDonald’s in the U.S. Same-store sales rose only 0.7 percent, and the Mighty Wings promotion was considered a failure. That quarter, McDonald’s w...

Same-store sales rose 3.6 percent within the segment

This post is part of the On the Margin blog. It only took about a year, but I finally made it to one of McDonald’s Create Your Taste restaurants, in New York City, last week. I thought the food was great, like many others, but not quite everyb...

This post is part of the On the Margin blog. All sorts of things can affect a restaurant’s sales: weather, Hollywood Box Office performance, auto sales, gas prices, employment growth and, now, papal visits. Pope Francis’s visit to the U.S...

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Same-store sales in the division rise 2 percent during the third quarter

Company records $5.7 million in insurance charges

This post is part of the On the Margin blog. Sales have grown at the big, traditional pizza concepts. Domino’s Pizza, Papa John’s and Little Caesars, in particular, have had flourishing sales in recent years. In theory, those concepts have...