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Buffalo Wild Wings vs. DineEquity: Which Is Stronger for the Long Term?

So who is honestly reporting a +4% to +6% sales growth in the full service-full-category, national restaurant chain segment?? WHO?


On Oct 31 10:40 AM sevilsivle wrote:

> BWLD continues to be a fresh concept. DIN has two old and rundown
> ideas that they are trying to pawn off as "brand new". BWLD has a
> guest interaction momenteum with all of the video and audio features
> available at their locations. DIN is just boring and with the current
> leadership in place they have no one to step forward and improve
> the brand of Applebees so that it can be competitive in the future.
> BWLD will continue to grow in it's number of units and DIN will not.
> The really sad part of this is that DIN will begin to roll over these
> poor perfomance numbers in the second quarter of 2009 and the leadership
> will claim some type of "long term" victory. BWLD is a good bet and
> DIN is still on it's last leg and if the franchise community of the
> Applebees brand does not step up and get the majority of the company
> held units under their control we could see DIN underwater by the
> forth quarter of 2009. Good decision making by BWLD leadership is
> evident and DIN simply has no leadership. DIN will have to pay out
> the retention bonus to it's managers in the second quarter of 2009
> due to the deal it struck upon accquistion. Let's see what that looks
> like in March and April and how many of the field leaders will get
> off that sinking ship once they have their money.