Benihana records 11.8% increase in 3rd-Q sales

Nation's Restaurant News,  Jan 22, 2007  

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MIAMI -- Benihana Inc., operator or franchisor of 96 restaurants, including the 76-unit namesake teppanyaki chain, posted a year-over-year jump in same-store sales of 9.3 percent at corporate units systemwide, which helped boost fiscal 2007 third-quarter restaurant sales by 11.8 percent to $61.9 million.

Restaurant sales for that quarter, which ended Dec. 31, were suppressed by about $2.8 million, the company said, because of temporary unit closures for renovations.

The corporatewide same-store sales increase reflected gains of 8.1 percent at the Benihana teppanyaki chain, 11.9 percent at RA Sushi and 14.5 percent at Haru.

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