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title: "NRN: Soft Sales Trends Dog Zoe’s Kitchen Into 2Q"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/bc4b1c81-2c3f-46e6-9e2a-1aa9101a398d
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/nrn-soft-sales-trends-dog-zoes-kitchen-into-2q-2706637
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
published: 2018-05-25T16:11:26.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:42:28.778Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/b8ecf04f083d2665c668eb514ad447d35278.jpg
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# NRN: Soft Sales Trends Dog Zoe’s Kitchen Into 2Q

**TL;DR:** Zoe's Kitchen Inc. released its Q1 financials, showing a 2.3 percent decline in same-store sales compared to Q4 of last year. The company will lower its guidance for the remainder of the fiscal year and slow new-unit development in response to the downward trend.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-05-25. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/nrn-soft-sales-trends-dog-zoes-kitchen-into-2q-2706637).*

## Story

Zoe’s Kitchen Inc. has released its Q1 financials, and the results are not encouraging for the fast-casual Mediterranean brand.

According to an article in Nation’s Restaurant News , same-store sales were down 2.3 percent compared to Q4 of last year for the Texas-based franchise. In a statement released by Zoe’s Kitchen on Thursday, brand president and CEO Kevin Miles said “early results in the second quarter have not show significant improvement.”

In response to the downward trend in sales, Miles says Zoe’s Kitchen will lower its guidance for the remainder of the fiscal year and slow future new-unit development. For existing stores, the company will focus on “aggressive actions” to improve sales.

“We will slow our future new-unit growth and conduct a thorough review of under-performing restaurants,” Miles said. The company will also “re-allocate resources toward marketing and technology initiatives to drive sales,” he said.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- texas (location)
- Nation's Restaurant News (publication)
- same store sales (topic)
- q1 financials (topic)
- new unit development (topic)
- sales guidance (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/nrn-soft-sales-trends-dog-zoes-kitchen-into-2q-2706637). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/bc4b1c81-2c3f-46e6-9e2a-1aa9101a398d).