Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Mistakes in this weeks newsletter

Garlic Jims actually was #6 on our top ten list in July. We stated they were #10.

Also, Flemings increased by 8 units during the period, not 10 as we stated.

Sorry for any confusion.

We will print corrections in next weeks newsletter.

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Sunday, September 09, 2007

State of the Industry. New Alerts feature.

1)In all this recent hullabaloo about the economy,

My opinion is reflected due to my organic involvement with the business is that, the industry is going strong.

Due to the (ever so) consistent nature of daily food consumption by customers, the shift is still decidedly quick service. People have not stopped eating, just shifted according to their wallets. Our research has continued to show this to be the case for at least the past two years.

We anticipated this to continue for the foreseeable future. The August RII (will be posted next week) along with our internal capturing of growing concepts (see newsletters) helps to prove the case.

And,

2) Restaurantchains.net is going to issue an alerts feature showing clients which concepts are achieving new unit growth plateaus and benchmarks. This will enable end-users as well as manufacturers see who the newest growth winners are. Stay tuned.