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Raw Data Report: Restaurants

If all Red Lobsters are company-owned (no franchisees w/ side hedge contracts). Shouldn't the issue of lobster price increases be binary? I mean, like oil, either prices are up or they are not. To me, the fact that the hostesses that you interviewed were split on the issue calls the other findings into question.

By the way, as of 4/24/08 it appears from this article that lobter prices were off significantly from last year. The opposite of your survey findings. See below.

www.thewesternstar.com...