![]() Crunchwrap with sausage’s 710 calories are about equal to McDonald’s Bacon Clubhouse burger. Guy Fieri pits four talented chefs against each other in three elimination challenges that put their culinary skills to the test as they compete. One is how well Taco Bell’s breakfast will do-once the initial novelty of Waffle Tacos wears off-against chains such as Jack in the Box (very strong in California, where Taco Bell is weighted) that make breakfast available all day?Īnother question is why nutrition watchdogs aren’t scrutinizing Taco Bell as closely as they do the burger chains. When Subway added a breakfast menu in 2010, it didn’t make any grandstanding claims about “winning.” It just built itself a solid breakfast business- estimated to be about 9% of sales-and everyone else in the category survived just fine.Ī few questions remain unasked. ![]() Taco Bell ought to be able hit $100,000, or $274 a day, from breakfast. Wendy’s decided to suspend its efforts to launch a breakfast program because it couldn’t make mornings work profitably and its target was $140,000 to $150,000 in breakfast sales per store. ![]() Mid-to-high-single digit? Yes, about 7%, which is what it says it needs “in order to make the economics work for us.” But even Carl’s Jr., which didn’t even push hard on breakfast until it adopted sibling Hardee’s Made From Scratch Biscuits platform a few years ago, can muster better than double Taco Bell’s breakfast sales target. Said Yum CFO Pat Grismer: “With respect to our expectations around breakfast and what we’re seeing today, we’ve been targeting mid to high single-digit mix for breakfast that’s generally what we saw in the test.” That’s a terrific gain for Taco Bell operators in a slow-growth market, but it hardly adds up to “winning.” Not when the average McDonald’s is taking in $650,000 from morning business. But given that the average Taco Bell does annual sales of about $1.4 million, $100,000 represents about 7%. There’s nothing wrong with incremental business, to be sure. Novak told analysts this week that Taco Bell stores could see about $100,000 in incremental business as a result of breakfast. What is Yum Brands’ target for Taco Bell’s breakfast? About 7%. But there’s a difference between “success” and “winning.” Taco Bell may well succeed, but is it going to be winning anything?īreakfast represents about 25% of the average McDonald’s sales and 45% for Hardee’s. The chain has set the bar low enough to guarantee success. ![]() But what does Taco Bell mean by “winning”? Not much, apparently. “We’re not in it to be in breakfast we’re in to win at breakfast,” Yum Brands Chairman- CEO David Novak told analysts last week. According to the Food Network, Flavortowns grand reopening will be full of twists and surprises. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Guys Grocery Games, affectionately known as Triple G, is one of Guy’s most popular shows. ![]()
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