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The first half of earnings season
This week on the Extra Serving podcast, a product of Nation’s Restaurant News, NRN editors Holly Petre, Leigh Anne Zinsmeister and Joanna Fantozzi talked about earnings season.
A slew of restaurant companies have reported, and we’re here to talk about them. These chains span from McDonald’s to Starbucks to Cheesecake Factory to BJ’s. One throughline we’ve seen is that traffic numbers are down. McDonald’s, the bellwether, showed a slight dip in traffic throughout the quarter while standouts Starbucks, Wendy’s, Chipotle, and Texas Roadhouse bucked that trend during the first part of earnings…
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