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Major themes from the Q2 restaurant earnings season
On this week’s episode of Extra Serving, a Nation’s Restaurant News podcast, NRN editors Holly Petre, Sam Oches and Leigh Anne Zinsmeister spoke about themes in this month’s earnings.
One of the major themes was a desire to grow traffic. While that may seem obvious, this quarter overlapped a quarter last year that was semi-normal, so the year-over-year traffic numbers are relatively evened out. How are brands pursuing traffic increases?
Also, the NRN editors noticed that everyone is trying to grow — exponentially. Last quarter, Chipotle announced it was trying to double its store count to…
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