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title: "NRN: Red Robin Off-Premise Sales Rise Nearly 40 Percent"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/d5aa1b35-4fd0-4a07-b7dc-3e6d6bed15b3
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/nrn-red-robin-off-premise-sales-rise-nearly-40-percent-2706615
category: "Casual dining"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Casual dining"
published: 2018-05-24T18:13:02.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:09:29.538Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/8dd2158a8490edb7e694daad294d69814344.jpg
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# NRN: Red Robin Off-Premise Sales Rise Nearly 40 Percent

**TL;DR:** Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc. announced its Q1 financials, with off-premise sales rising nearly 40 percent compared to Q1 2017. CEO Denny Marie Post stated that the company will look to capitalize on this growth with new marketing campaigns.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-05-24. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/nrn-red-robin-off-premise-sales-rise-nearly-40-percent-2706615).*

## Story

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc. has announced the company’s Q1 financials, and the results are, according to CEO Denny Marie Post, “a mixed bag.”

As reported by Nation’s Restaurant News, the full-service franchise’s off-premise sales, including to-go and catering sales, were up 40 percent compared to Q1 2017. In-store sales did not see the same incline, with same-store sales down 0.9 percent year over year and overall traffic rising just 0.1 percent.

Post says Red Robin will look to capitalize on the growth of the company’s off-premise sales with new marketing campaigns.

“We just began testing television advertising in select high-penetration markets, and we like what we see early on from the results,” Post said. “With off-premise averaging 9.4-percent mix in Q1, double-digit mix is clearly within the reach as we grow this segment aggressively.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Nation's Restaurant News (publication)
- same store sales (topic)
- Red Robin (company)
- Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (company)
- marketing campaigns (topic)
- off-premise sales (topic)
- q1 financials (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/nrn-red-robin-off-premise-sales-rise-nearly-40-percent-2706615). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/d5aa1b35-4fd0-4a07-b7dc-3e6d6bed15b3).