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“Mark Kalinowski has his finger on the pulse of the restaurant business like no other Wall Street analyst… he has broken more news about McDonald’s than the reporters assigned to the beat… Kalinowski rolls up his sleeves, dives in and brings important news to the surface for clients”

-Huffington Post

 

“The Burger King with accurate predictions… The Big Mac of predicting the company’s [McDonald’s] sales.”

-The Wall Street Journal

 

Lead Analyst:

 
 

Mark Kalinowski
PRESIDENT & CEO

Kalinowski Equity Research LLC provides its clients with value-added, forward-looking information that helps them make informed decisions about restaurant-stock investing.

YUM! Brands Inc. (YUM)
Mark Kalinowski

YUM: Adjusting Our Forecasts (9/22/2026)

On July 30th, management of Yum Brands — parent company of Taco Bell — had this to say: “Taco Bell’s U.S. same-store sales growth quarter-to-date through July 27 is negative 2%. Since the U.S. food safety industry issue became front and center only two weeks ago, we saw maximum impact to sales over the weekend of July 18. It is early days, but in the subsequent week, sales declines have moderated materially and we are seeing steady improvement in day-over-day sales trends.”

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Restaurant Industry
Mark Kalinowski

Updating our Q3 Kalinowski Quick-Service Other Same-Store Sales Index (9/22/2026)

With this report, we update our data-driven Kalinowski Quick-Service Other Index for Q3 to -1.7%. Comparing to Q3 2019 levels – a pre-pandemic basis — the Kalinowski Quick-Service Other Index for Q3 2026 is at +29.8%. These numbers are based on our latest proprietary checks/data as regards same-store sales performance for this segment during July, August, and early-to-mid September.

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