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Good morning, PR pros:
The chicken sandwich wars aren’t just boosting the Popeyes Chicken brand and marketing efforts: They’re also proving lucrative.
Restaurant Brands International, which owns Popeyes, Burger King and Tim Hortons, reported Monday that sales at all Popeyes restaurants jumped about 42% to $1.3 billion in the last three months of 2019 compared to the same period a year before. At Popeyes restaurants open at least 17 months, sales jumped 34%.
The company’s stock jumped about 4% before the market opened Monday.
Remember 2019? Wild, right??
— Popeyes (@Popeyes) February 7, 2020
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