Chain restaurant operators and observers are anxiously searching for clues into the steady decline in comp sales and traffic. Despite generally positive economic news, results for July show a continued downward slide that began after a strong start in 2015. According to TDn2K’s Black Box Intelligence, encompassing nearly 25,000 restaurant units and representing $64 billion […]

Q1 final results show same-store sales growth was 2.8 percent during Q1, becoming the best quarter for the industry since the recession. These results support the idea that the restaurant industry may now be entering a new cycle of sustained growth. This insight comes from data reported by TDn2K’s Black Box Intelligence through the Restaurant […]

February might have been the worst month on record weather-wise for many regions of the country, but for restaurants, the results were far from dreadful as the industry was able to post its eighth consecutive month of positive same-store sales growth. With these latest results, Q1 of 2015 is firmly positioned to become the third […]