All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Restaurants

1. Fast casual continued growth over regular fast food establishments2. Rapid growth and higher profit margins than traditional fast food 3.  Further interest of traditional fast food companies to develop these concepts4. The impact it has on traditional casual dining companies such as...

1. New advertising tie ins and strategy to capture younger markets.2. New ways that the culture of a restaurant can translate into bigger and better ads.     

1.    Starbucks’ hyper-growth strategy, focused on outpacing the competition, led the company to introduce automatic espresso machines to accelerate customer service. The ritual involved in use of traditional espresso makers are vital to “the Starbucks experience”, which makes...

1.    Offering better-for-you foods, such as a low-calorie whole wheat donut is a good ingredient in Krispy Kreme’s turnaround recipe, but the company still lacks key ingredients that will help stop the erosion of its share of the coffee and baked goods market – ingredients...

Costs Part 2 - Increased government pressure on a variety of fronts from health care to taxes Trend – What is it? – In addition to the increase in minimum wage, as discussed in the last article, there are other government driven pressures that will continue to mount on restaurant owners and operators...

Building sales with existing laborStaying in touch/compete with rivalsRetaining consumers while offering new menu items

Into the vacuum of positive operations news about Krispy Kreme comes this rare bit about a new product.Why does it get any attention at all?  Is this the harbinger of an operations turn around?What are the reasons behind the scarcity of news about a turn around?

It is interesting to see that Wendy's, Subway, and even Starbucks are entering the breakfast arena. BK has been there for a while. Wendy's had breakfast in several locations many years ago. All the while, we at Hardee's continue to do what others would like-grow our breakfast business through made...

Management don't understand what drives sales/profitDonuts are not the answerBeverage programs and daypart are the keys

They are good, they melt in your mouth, but whole-wheat doughnuts are not that answer to increasing sales for Krispy Kreme.  Increased competition from coffee and energy drink sectors must be addressed, but is this the way to do it?