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HOT1OO SIZZLING SEGMENT Casual Family Dining BJ’s Restaurants Buffalo Wild Wings Texas Roadhouse Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Ruby Tuesday Rare Hospitality California Pizza Kitchen Famous Dave’s of America Brinker International Dave & Buster’s Applebee’s 15.10% 34.2% 32.7% 30.2% 27.3% 17.6% 17.6% 15.6% 13.9% 10.7% 10.1% 10.0% 86 have been performing well, says president and CEO Jerry Deitchie. The Palmdale, Calif., location not only established an all-time opening Restaurant week sales record for BJ’s, but “also set an all-time companies in sales record for any BJ’s restaurant during its secthe Hot 100 ond week of opening, which is quite remarkable,” he says. Also in the overall top 10 is Buffalo Wild Wings (No. 9), a sports bar and chicken wings concept that features more than 20 domestic and imported beers on tap. Through the first quarter of 60 2007, the company owned and operated 140 locations and franchised another 299 restaurants. Rounding out the top 10 are specialty apparel retailers Florida; Stage Stores, which is finally beginning to see some Coldwater Creek (No. 7), Charlotte Russe (No. 8) and Citi returns from both its Peebles and Stage Stores (which also Trends. includes Bealls and Palais Royal) divisions; and NordColdwater Creek began in 1984 as a catalog purveyor of strom, which has decided to focus solely on its department Western-themed apparel, jewelry, gifts and accessories. stores and sold its Faconnable specialty stores to a Since then, the company has expanded into e-commerce Lebanese private-equity group in June. and bricks-and-mortar retailing, with stores being the major focus these days: Coldwater Creek opened 65 stores Setting records in 2006, and plans to match that total this year. J’s Restaurants (No. 6) is one of three restaurant Charlotte Russe is a mall-based chain targeting women operators in the top 10 — and nearly two dozen in in their teens and twenties — the volatile fast-fashion segthe Hot 100. BJ’s owns and operates casual dining ment. The company spent much of last year shedding restaurants, with deepRampage stores, but hopes to have at least 50 new stores dish pizza being a major open by September, the end of its fiscal year. attraction. The company Citi Trends, which became a public company only two has opened five of 13 new years ago, was founded shortly after World War II as a locations planned for wholesaler of ladies’ hosiery and undergarments. Its first 2007, and the new units Allied Department Store opened in 1958, offering apparel for the whole family. The concept lasted SIZZLING SEGMENT well into the 1990s, when it was acquired by HampWomen’s Apparel 17.9% shire Equity Partners and became Citi Trends FashColdwater Creek 33.8% ions for Less (later shortened for the IPO). Its 9,500Dress Barn 30.0% sq.-ft. stores are located in neighborhood shopping Talbots 23.4% centers. StORES Chico’s FAS 17.2% 23 B 21 S18 STORES / AUGUST 2007 bebe Stores AnnTaylor Christopher & Banks Charming Shoppes 13.6% 13.0% 11.6% 11.3% David P. Schulz, a New York-based writer and editor, reports on U.S. and foreign retailers for several publications. WWW.STORES.ORG http://WWW.STORES.ORG

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StORES Magazine - August 2007

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