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๐Ÿ“„ Earnings Call Transcript ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ

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Kura Sushi USA, Inc. (NASDAQ:KRUS) Q3 2025 Earnings Conference Call July 8, 2025 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Benjamin Porten - Corporate Participant
SVP of Investor Relations & System Development - Corporate Participant
Hajime Uba - Chairman, President & CEO
Jeffrey J.
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Uttz - CFO & Treasurer

Conference Call Participants

George Arthur Kelly - ROTH Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division
James Jon Sanderson - Northcoast Research Partners, LLC
Jeffrey Andrew Bernstein - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Zachary Ogden - TD Cowen, Research Division
Jeremy Scott Hamblin - Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division
Jon Michael Tower - Citigroup Inc., Research Division
Mark Eric Smith - Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division
Matthew James Curtis - William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division
Todd Morrison Brooks - The Benchmark Company, LLC, Research Division
a division of S&P - Unidentified Company

Operator

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by.
**์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž**

**George Arthur Kelly** - ROTH Capital Partners, LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
**James Jon Sanderson** - Northcoast Research Partners, LLC
**Jeffrey Andrew Bernstein** - Barclays Bank PLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
**Zachary Ogden** - TD Cowen, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
**Jeremy Scott Hamblin** - Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
**Jon Michael Tower** - Citigroup Inc., ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
**Mark Eric Smith** - Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
**Matthew James Curtis** - William Blair & Company L.L.C., ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
**Todd Morrison Brooks** - The Benchmark Company, LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
**S&P ์‚ฐํ•˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ** - ๋ฏธํ™•์ธ ํšŒ์‚ฌ

**์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ**

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์‹ ์‚ฌ ์ˆ™๋…€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„. ๋Œ€๊ธฐํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Welcome to Kura Sushi USA, Inc. Fiscal Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this call is being recorded. On the call today, we have Hajime Jimmy Uba, President and CEO; Jeff Uttz, Chief Financial Officer; and Benjamin Porten, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and System Development. And now I would like to turn the call over to Mr. Porten. Benjamin Porten

SVP of Investor Relations & System Development

Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you all for joining. By now, everyone should have access to our fiscal third quarter 2025 earnings release.
Kura Sushi USA, Inc. 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ] ๋ณธ ํ†ตํ™”๋Š” ๋…น์Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ†ตํ™”์—๋Š” ํ•˜์ง€๋ฉ” ์ง€๋ฏธ ์šฐ๋ฐ”(Hajime Jimmy Uba) ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CEO, ์ œํ”„ ์šฐ์ธ (Jeff Uttz) ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฒค์ž๋ฏผ ํฌํŠผ(Benjamin Porten) ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋ฐ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ์ด ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ํฌํŠผ ์”จ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฒค์ž๋ฏผ ํฌํŠผ
ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋ฐ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ

์šด์˜์ž๋‹˜, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„. ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ์ฏค ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์…จ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
It can be found at www.kurasushi.com in the Investor Relations section. A copy of the earnings release has also been included in the 8-K we submitted to the SEC. Before we begin our formal remarks, I need to remind everyone that part of our discussion today will include forward-looking statements as defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and therefore, you should not put undue reliance on them. These statements are also subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from what we expect.ํ•ด๋‹น ์ž๋ฃŒ๋Š” www.kurasushi.com์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„(Investor Relations) ์„น์…˜์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ ์‚ฌ๋ณธ์€ SEC์— ์ œ์ถœํ•œ 8-K ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์—๋„ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์—, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋…ผ์˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ 1995๋…„ ์ฆ๊ถŒ์†Œ์†ก๊ฐœํ˜๋ฒ•(Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995)์— ์ •์˜๋œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ ค์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฏ€๋กœ, ์ด์— ๊ณผ๋„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์˜์กดํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ๋“ค์€ ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๊ณผ ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์œ„ํ—˜๊ณผ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We refer all of you to our SEC filings for a more detailed discussion of the risks that could impact our future operating results and financial condition. Also during today's call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe can be useful in evaluating our performance. The presentation of this additional information should not be considered in isolation nor as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with GAAP, and the reconciliations to comparable GAAP measures are available in our earnings release. With that out of the way, I would like to turn the call over to Jimmy. Hajime Uba

Thanks, Ben, and thank you to everyone for joining us today.
ํ–ฅํ›„ ์šด์˜ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ƒํƒœ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ SEC ์ œ์ถœ ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ฐธ์กฐํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์œ ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จ๋˜๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๋น„GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ง€ํ‘œ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ณด์˜ ์ œ์‹œ๋Š” ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ๋ ค๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ GAAP์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ž‘์„ฑ๋œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋˜์–ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๋น„๊ต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ GAAP ์ง€ํ‘œ์™€์˜ ์กฐ์ •ํ‘œ๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด์ œ Jimmy์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋ฉ” ์šฐ๋ฐ”

Ben, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The last quarter has been a busy one for us between loading up the new reservation system, investigating new market opportunities and building out our IP pipeline and strategizing on how to get the most out of our collaborations. We completed a system-wide rollout of the reservation system ahead of schedule. We made a meaningful progress on building a different pipeline by leveraging the opportunities demonstrated by Bakersfield and have built our busiest marketing calendar yet for the upcoming fiscal year. I'm extremely pleased with the results on all 3 fronts and very proud of the efforts by our team members to maximize summer season and set ourselves up for a great fiscal '26.์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋„์ž…, ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ ์กฐ์‚ฌ, IP ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ ๊ตฌ์ถ•, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜‘์—…์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ํšจ๊ณผ ์ฐฝ์ถœ ์ „๋žต ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ฐ”์œ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ์ „์‚ฌ์  ๋„์ž…์„ ์˜ˆ์ •๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ž์„œ ์™„๋ฃŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ ์ด์ปค์Šคํ•„๋“œ์—์„œ ์ž…์ฆ๋œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์— ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ค˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์—ญ๋Œ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•œ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์บ˜๋ฆฐ๋”๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ์„ฑ์ˆ˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  26ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•œ ํŒ€์›๋“ค์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๋งค์šฐ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Total sales for the fiscal third quarter was $74 million, representing comparable sales growth of negative 2.1% with price and the mix of 0.8%, offset by negative traffic of 2.9%. We are pleased that we see the business moving in the right direction with sequential improvement in comp performance each month of the quarter. Cost of goods sold as a percentage of sales were 28.3%, representing an improvement of 90 basis points over the prior year quarter of 29.2% due to pricing and ongoing effort by the supply chain team. Labor as a percentage of sales increased by 50 basis points due to high single-digit wage inflation, partially offset by pricing and incremental operational efficiencies.3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ด ๋งค์ถœ์€ 7,400๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ฐ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค๊ฐ€ 0.8% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ 2.9% ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด ๋งˆ์ด๋„ˆ์Šค 2.1%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋‚ด ๋งค์›” ๊ธฐ์กด์  ์‹ค์ ์ด ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€ ๋น„์œจ์€ 28.3%๋กœ, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ํŒ€์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 29.2% ๋Œ€๋น„ 90bp ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„ ๋น„์œจ์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์ž„๊ธˆ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด 50bp ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ๊ณผ ์ ์ง„์ ์ธ ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Restaurant level operating profit margin was 18.2% as compared to 20% in the prior year due to higher labor, occupancy and other costs. During the third quarter, we opened 3 new restaurants, North Scottsdale, Arizona; Lynnwood, Washington State; and the McKinney, Texas. Subsequent to quarter end, we opened 2 more units, one in The Woodlands, Texas, and one in Salt Lake City, Utah. We are very pleased with the class of 2025 with many of our restaurant openings exceeding our expectations. Lynnwood joined our top 5 restaurants shortly after opening, underscoring a tremendous opportunity we see in the Pacific Northwest.๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘ ์ˆ˜์ค€ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„, ์ž„์ฐจ๋ฃŒ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋น„์šฉ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 20% ๋Œ€๋น„ 18.2%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘์—๋Š” ์• ๋ฆฌ์กฐ๋‚˜์ฃผ ๋…ธ์Šค ์Šค์ฝ”์ธ ๋ฐ์ผ, ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์ฃผ ๋ฆฐ์šฐ๋“œ, ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์ฃผ ๋งฅํ‚ค๋‹ˆ์— 3๊ฐœ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์˜คํ”ˆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ข…๋ฃŒ ํ›„์—๋Š” ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์ฃผ ๋” ์šฐ๋“œ๋žœ์ฆˆ์™€ ์œ ํƒ€์ฃผ ์†”ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ดํฌ์‹œํ‹ฐ์— 2๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๊ฐœ์ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งŽ์€ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด 2025๋…„ ํด๋ž˜์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฆฐ์šฐ๋“œ ๋งค์žฅ์€ ๊ฐœ์  ์งํ›„ ์ €ํฌ ์ƒ์œ„ 5๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์— ์ง„์ž…ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํƒœํ‰์–‘ ๋ถ์„œ๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
At the beginning of the fiscal year, we provided unit development guidance of 14 new restaurants, which we achieved with last week's Salt Lake City opening. I'll leave it to Jeff to share our thoughts on guidance for the remainder of the year, but I will mention that we have currently 5 units under construction.ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ดˆ์— ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘ 14๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ์†”ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ดํฌ์‹œํ‹ฐ ์˜คํ”ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋‚จ์€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋Š” Jeff๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ˜„์žฌ 5๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์ด ๊ฑด์„ค ์ค‘์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Over the last several calls, we have been discussing the opportunity in smaller DMAs as demonstrated by the success of this year opening in Bakersfield, California, and how the greater optionality created by these smaller markets can not only expand our white space potential, but also serve as a functional competitive win by reducing the number of openings in markets that can cannibalize sales. We have mentioned that we hope to get back to a 50-50 split between new and existing markets by fiscal 2027 and that we've been hard at work developing previously unexplored DMAs like Des Moines, Richmond and Tulsa.์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ๋ฒ ์ด์ปค์Šคํ•„๋“œ ๊ฐœ์ ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์œผ๋กœ ์ž…์ฆ๋œ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ DMA(์ง€์ •์‹œ์žฅ์ง€์—ญ)์—์„œ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ฐฝ์ถœ๋˜๋Š” ๋” ํฐ ์„ ํƒ๊ถŒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ™”์ดํŠธ ์ŠคํŽ˜์ด์Šค ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์ž ์‹ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ฐœ์  ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ค„์ž„์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์šฐ์œ„๋กœ๋„ ์ž‘์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 2027 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๊นŒ์ง€ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์กด ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ฐ„์˜ 50๋Œ€ 50 ๋น„์œจ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํฌ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐ๋ชจ์ธ, ๋ฆฌ์น˜๋ชฌ๋“œ, ํ„ธ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ด์ „์— ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ DMA๋“ค์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I'm very pleased to say that we now have properties under negotiation at each of these markets. Turning to marketing. We have 7 to 8 IP collaborations lined up for fiscal 2026, which, as we mentioned in the previous call, is a record for us. Fiscal 2026, we have no interruptions between IP campaigns, and we'll be wrapping this fiscal year, which included a 4- to 5-month stretch without IP cooperations. We have a renewed appreciation for the role that collaborations play in our sales and have made investments to better utilize this opportunity that is unique to Kura.์ด์ œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ํ˜‘์ƒ ์ค‘์ธ ๋งค๋ฌผ๋“ค์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ์˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด, 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” 7~8๊ฐœ์˜ IP ํ˜‘์—…์ด ์˜ˆ์ •๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ด์ „ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” IP ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ ๊ฐ„ ์ค‘๋‹จ ์—†์ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, IP ํ˜‘์—…์ด 4~5๊ฐœ์›”๊ฐ„ ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ ํฌํ•จํ–ˆ๋˜ ์˜ฌ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜‘์—…์ด ์ €ํฌ ๋งค์ถœ์—์„œ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญํ• ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฟ ๋ผ๋งŒ์˜ ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋” ์ž˜ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In addition to creating a new role in our marketing team, which will be fully dedicated to researching and negotiating with the new licenses, we have also established an intellectual property committee to facilitate the development of longer-term strategies related to our IP collaborations. To close, I'd like to provide an update on our system development efforts. While we had originally expected to complete the implementation of the reservation system by the end of the fiscal year, we were able to roll out reservations across all restaurants by our region. The response from guests and the team members have been uniformly positive.๋ผ์ด์„ ์Šค ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๋ฐ ํ˜‘์ƒ์— ์ „๋‹ดํ•  ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…ํŒ€ ๋‚ด ์‹ ๊ทœ ์—ญํ•  ์‹ ์„ค ์™ธ์—๋„, IP ํ˜‘์—…๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์ „๋žต ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ง€์ ์žฌ์‚ฐ๊ถŒ ์œ„์›ํšŒ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์ดˆ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €ํฌ ์ง€์—ญ ๋‚ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘์— ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์ถœ์‹œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ํŒ€์›๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐ˜์‘์€ ํ•œ๊ฒฐ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ธ์ •์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
While it's too early for us to quantify the impact of the reservation system, we believe we have great potential by the comp driver and have identified system improvement opportunities, which we believe could drive operational efficiencies as well. Although the implementation of these improvements will take some time, we're pleased with a strong start and look forward to being able to share more quantified expectations in future course regarding potential traffic lift and labor improvement through the reservation system.์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ •๋Ÿ‰ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์•„์ง ์ด๋ฅด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋™๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ํฐ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์—๋„ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐœ์„  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์„ ์‹๋ณ„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์˜ ๊ตฌํ˜„์—๋Š” ๋‹ค์†Œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์†Œ์š”๋˜๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์— ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ–ฅํ›„ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ์—์„œ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ž ์žฌ์  ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ž… ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As a final note, I'm pleased to also announce the introduction of our new light rice option, which will give guests even more control of how they experience Kura by introducing the option to order sushi with smaller portions of rice. The third quarter has been very busy for us, and it's exciting that you see so many of our initiatives come online or cross the finish line. All our team members, both at our restaurants and our chief support center have been doing incredible work to make this happen. Thank you, everyone. Jeff, I'll hand it over to you to discuss our financial results and liquidity. Jeffrey J. Uttz

Thank you, Jimmy.
๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ผ์ดํŠธ ๋ผ์ด์Šค ์˜ต์…˜ ๋„์ž…์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋” ์ ์€ ์–‘์˜ ๋ฐฅ์œผ๋กœ ์Šค์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜ต์…˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ฟ ๋ผ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋”์šฑ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ฐ”์œ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค์ด ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์ถœ์‹œ๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์™„๋ฃŒ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ํฅ๋ฏธ์ง„์ง„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๋ณธ์‚ฌ ์ง€์›์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ํŒ€์›๋“ค์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋†€๋ผ์šด ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ธฐ์šธ์—ฌ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œํ”„, ์žฌ๋ฌด ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ์œ ๋™์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ œํ”„๋ฆฌ J. ์šฐ์ธ 

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์ง€๋ฏธ.
For the third quarter, total sales were $74 million as compared to $63.1 million in the prior year period. Comparable restaurant sales performance compared to the prior year period was negative 2.1%, with traffic at negative 2.9% and price and mix positive 0.8%. Effective pricing for the quarter was 4.3%. On June 1, we took a 1% menu price increase and after lapping prior year increases, our effective price for the fourth quarter will be 3.5%. Comparable sales in our West Coast market were flat and comparable sales in our Southwest market were negative 2.5%.3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ด ๋งค์ถœ์€ 7,400๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 6,310๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋Š” -2.1%์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ˆ˜๋Š” -2.9%, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ฐ ๋ฏน์Šค๋Š” +0.8%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹คํšจ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ๋ฅ ์€ 4.3%์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 6์›” 1์ผ์— 1% ๋ฉ”๋‰ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ๋‹จํ–‰ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „๋…„๋„ ์ธ์ƒ๋ถ„์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ํ›„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹คํšจ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ๋ฅ ์€ 3.5%๊ฐ€ ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„œ๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ์€ ๋ณดํ•ฉ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๊ณ , ๋‚จ์„œ๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ์€ -2.5%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As we've been discussing for the last several months, we were looking forward to our third quarter, where our comp comparison eased and that optimism was met with encouraging sequential monthly results, as Jimmy mentioned earlier. Turning now to costs. Food and beverage costs as a percentage of sales were 28.3% compared to 29.2% in the prior year quarter, largely due to pricing and supply chain initiatives. We continue to be fortunate that tariffs have not caused a meaningful negative impact to our food and beverage costs, and we are continuing to work with our suppliers to minimize any future impacts.์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ๊ฐ„ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•ด์™”๋“ฏ์ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ €ํšจ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ต๊ฐ€ ์™„ํ™”๋˜๋Š” 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋‚™๊ด€๋ก ์€ Jimmy๊ฐ€ ์•ž์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ธ ์›”๋ณ„ ์ˆœ์ฐจ ์‹ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ƒ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋น„์šฉ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์‹์Œ๋ฃŒ ๋น„์šฉ์€ 28.3%๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 29.2%์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ •์ฑ…๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์‹์Œ๋ฃŒ ๋น„์šฉ์— ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€์ •์  ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ๋‹คํ–‰์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ตœ์†Œํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค๊ณผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Labor and related costs as a percentage of sales were 33.1% as compared to 32.6% in the prior year quarter. This increase was largely due to wage inflation, partially offset by pricing and operational efficiencies. Occupancy and related expenses as a percentage of sales were 7.5% compared to the prior year quarter's 6.8% due to sales deleverage. Depreciation and amortization expenses as a percentage of sales were 4.7% as compared to the prior year quarter's 5%. Other costs as a percentage of sales were 14.7% as compared to the prior year quarter's 14.1% due to sales deleverage.๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„ ๋ฐ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋น„์šฉ์€ 33.1%๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 32.6%์™€ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ž„๊ธˆ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ๊ณผ ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ž„์ฐจ๋ฃŒ ๋ฐ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋น„์šฉ์€ 7.5%๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 6.8%์™€ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์—ฌ ๋งค์ถœ ๋””๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ๊ฐ€์ƒ๊ฐ๋น„๋Š” 4.7%๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 5%์™€ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋น„์šฉ์€ 14.7%๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 14.1%์™€ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์—ฌ ๋งค์ถœ ๋””๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
General and administrative expenses as a percentage of sales were 11.8% as compared to 14% in the prior year quarter due to sales leverage, lower public company costs as we lapped the first year of 404(b) SOX compliance and lower litigation-related costs. In just a moment, I will be discussing our updated guidance for our full year G&A expense. Operating loss was $162,000 compared to operating loss of $1.2 million in the prior year quarter due to the lower G&A expenses discussed previously. Income tax expense was $55,000 compared to $60,000 in the prior year quarter.์ผ๋ฐ˜๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋น„์œจ์€ 11.8%๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 14%์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ, 404(b) SOX ์ปดํ”Œ๋ผ์ด์–ธ์Šค ์ฒซ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ด€๋ จ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ๊ฒƒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์†Œ์†ก ๊ด€๋ จ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์ค„์–ด๋“  ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž ์‹œ ํ›„ ์ „์ฒด ์—ฐ๋„ ์ผ๋ฐ˜๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์—…์†์‹ค์€ 162,000๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์•ž์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ์ผ๋ฐ˜๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ์˜์—…์†์‹ค 120๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ•์ธ์„ธ๋น„์šฉ์€ 55,000๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 60,000๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Net income was $565,000 or $0.05 per share compared to a net loss of $558,000 or negative $0.05 per share in the prior year quarter. Restaurant-level operating profit as a percentage of sales was 18.2% compared to 20% in the prior year quarter, largely due to sales deleveraging, increased labor expense and higher other costs. Adjusted EBITDA was $5.4 million as compared to $4.5 million in the prior year quarter. We're particularly pleased at being able to increase our adjusted EBITDA by 20% even with higher restaurant operating costs. Turning now to our cash and investments. At the end of the fiscal third quarter, we had $93 million in cash, cash equivalents and investments, and no debt.์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ 56๋งŒ 5์ฒœ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ฃผ๋‹น 0.05๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 55๋งŒ 8์ฒœ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ˆœ์†์‹ค, ์ฃผ๋‹น ๋งˆ์ด๋„ˆ์Šค 0.05๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์™€ ๋น„๊ต๋˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘ ์šด์˜์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ 18.2%๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 20%์— ๋น„ํ•ด ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ ๋””๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง•, ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋น„์šฉ ์ƒ์Šน์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋Š” 540๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 450๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์™€ ๋น„๊ต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘ ์šด์˜๋น„์šฉ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋ฅผ 20% ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํŠนํžˆ ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋ฐ ํˆฌ์ž ํ˜„ํ™ฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ํ˜„๊ธˆ, ํ˜„๊ธˆ์„ฑ ์ž์‚ฐ ๋ฐ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์‚ฐ์€ 9์ฒœ 3๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ถ€์ฑ„๋Š” ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And then lastly, I am pleased to update our guidance for the full fiscal year 2025. We expect total sales to be approximately $281 million. We expect to open 15 new units, maintaining an annual unit growth rate above 20% with average net capital expenditures per unit of approximately $2.5 million. And we now expect general and administrative expenses as a percentage of sales to be below 13%, exclusive of any legal settlements. And now I will turn it back over to Jimmy. Hajime Uba

Thanks, Jeff. This concludes our prepared remarks. We are now happy to answer any questions you have. Operator, please open the line for questions.
๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „์ฒด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋งค์ถœ์€ ์•ฝ 2์–ต 8,100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 15๊ฐœ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ๊ฐœ์ ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋งค์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ 20% ์ด์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งค์žฅ๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  ์ˆœ์ž๋ณธ์ง€์ถœ์€ ์•ฝ 250๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด์ œ ์ผ๋ฐ˜๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ 13% ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ฒ•์  ํ•ฉ์˜๊ธˆ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์ง€๋ฏธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋ฉ” ์šฐ๋ฐ”

๊ณ ๋ง™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์ œํ”„. ์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ, ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํšŒ์„ ์„ ์—ด์–ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As a reminder, during the Q&A session, I may answer in Japanese before my response is translated into English.์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, Q&A ์„ธ์…˜ ์ค‘์— ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ผ๋ณธ์–ด๋กœ ๋จผ์ € ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ•œ ํ›„ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋ฒˆ์—ญํ•˜์—ฌ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

โ€ข ์‹ค์  ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์š”์•ฝ:
- 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ 7,400๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ๋ก, ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ -2.1% (๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ/๋ฏน์Šค +0.8%, ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ -2.9%)
- ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘ ๋ ˆ๋ฒจ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ  18.2% (์ „๋…„ 20.0% ๋Œ€๋น„ ํ•˜๋ฝ)
- ์ˆœ์ด์ต 56.5๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ (์ฃผ๋‹น 0.05๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ)

โ€ข ์‚ฌ์—… ํ™•์žฅ:
- 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ 3๊ฐœ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์˜คํ”ˆ, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ 14๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ
- ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ถœ ์ „๋žต ๊ฐ•ํ™” (Des Moines, Richmond, Tulsa ๋“ฑ)
- ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์žฅ ์กฐ๊ธฐ ๋„์ž… ์™„๋ฃŒ

โ€ข 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ:
- ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ด๋งค์ถœ 2์–ต 8,100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ „๋ง
- ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ 15๊ฐœ ์˜คํ”ˆ ๊ณ„ํš (20% ์ด์ƒ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ  ์œ ์ง€)
- ์ผ๋ฐ˜๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„ ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ 13% ์ดํ•˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ


โ“ Q&A

Original Translation
Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Jeremy Hamblin with Craig-Hallum.**Operator:** [์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด] ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Craig-Hallum์˜ Jeremy Hamblin๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeremy Scott Hamblin: Congrats on the strong results. I wanted to see if we might be able to dive in a little bit to the commentary around the new reservation system initiative and kind of the timing of that, along with the timing of bringing your latest IP collaboration back kind of lends itself. I wanted to see if you might unpack the same-store sales trends cadence during the quarter a little bit more for us to get a sense for how May performed as you brought that IP collab back versus the first 2 months of the quarter. And then a sense for, you had a pretty big raise in your sales guidance for the year, how things have started out here in June.**Jeremy Scott Hamblin:** ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ถ•ํ•˜๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ค๋ช…๊ณผ ๊ทธ ํƒ€์ด๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ตœ์‹  IP ์ฝœ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ํƒ€์ด๋ฐ์ด ๋งž๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์•Œ์•„๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ์ถ”์ด๋ฅผ ์ข€ ๋” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์š”. IP ์ฝœ๋ผ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์„ ๋ณด์ธ 5์›” ์‹ค์ ์ด ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ฒซ 2๊ฐœ์›”๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด์„œ ์–ด๋• ๋Š”์ง€ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, 6์›” ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋„ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development Yes. Jeremy, this is Ben. Thanks for the question. Great to hear from you. We're really happy with the reservation system. As Jimmy mentioned, we did see sequential improvement throughout the quarter with each month being better than the last through March, April and May. We began rollout of the reservation system in late February, but I'd say like it really began in earnest in April, and we were largely done by May. And so you can sort of see that benefit rolling along as well. And we began the Peanuts campaign in very late April and had it running through May and June. And that -- the 2 of those combined has been really one of the big reasons that we're so happy with how the last quarter shook out. One other thing to keep in mind is that the reservation system, just given that we've been -- the rollout has overlapped with the time- limited things like the Peanuts campaign and now the hololive campaign. We haven't had dedicated advertisements just for the reservation system and the messaging that we have done is largely focused just towards our rewards numbers. And so we're very pleased to see the results that we're seeing right now and believe that there is additional upside as we communicate this further to our guests.**Benjamin Porten:** ๋„ค, ์ œ๋ ˆ๋ฏธ. ๋ฒค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๋ฝ ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ‘์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ 3์›”, 4์›”, 5์›”์„ ๊ฑฐ์น˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋งค์›” ์ด์ „ ๋‹ฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚˜์•„์ง€๋Š” ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ ์ธ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2์›” ๋ง์— ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋„์ž…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” 4์›”๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , 5์›”๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  4์›” ๋ง๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ”ผ๋„ˆ์ธ  ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด์„œ 5์›”๊ณผ 6์›”๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋˜์–ด ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” ์ด์œ  ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋” ์—ผ๋‘์— ๋‘์‹ค ์ ์€ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋กค์•„์›ƒ์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ”ผ๋„ˆ์ธ  ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์ด๋‚˜ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ํ™€๋กœ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ํ•œ์ • ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฒน์ณค๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๋งŒ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „์šฉ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋Š” ์•„์ง ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ณ , ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง•์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋ฆฌ์›Œ๋“œ ํšŒ์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋งŒ ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์ƒ์Šน ์—ฌ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: Jeremy, I have a comment about question for comp sales, but please allow me to speak in Japanese. Ben is going to translate. [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** ์ œ๋ ˆ๋ฏธ, ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜๊ฒฌ๊ณผ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ผ๋ณธ์–ด๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒค์ด ํ†ต์—ญํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆด ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์ผ๋ณธ์–ด๋กœ ๋ฐœ์–ธ]
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] Going back to the monthly cadence that we've seen in Q3, May coincided with the introduction of our first IP campaigns really in 4, 5 months, and that is also when our comps turned positive. And so it was really great to see not just positive comps, positive traffic as well as in May. And we have those IP collaborations continuing through the current quarter and we're very pleased with how the current quarter is performing as well.**Benjamin Porten:** 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ณด์ธ ์›”๋ณ„ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด, 5์›”์— 4~5๊ฐœ์›” ๋งŒ์— ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ IP ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์„ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ๋•Œ ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ๋งค์ถœ์ฆ๊ฐ€์œจ(comps)์ด ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 5์›”์— ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ๋งค์ถœ์ฆ๊ฐ€์œจ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ž…๋„ ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ •๋ง ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ IP ํ˜‘์—…์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋„ ๊ณ„์†๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์—๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeffrey J. Uttz: And then, Jeremy, on your last question about the guidance raise to $281 million. Last quarter, we were pretty certain that we would be close to there as well. But we've been really gun shy about raising our guidance too early just based on what happened last year about this time. This wasn't a great call for us in July last year. So we wanted to be certain that we felt really good about that before we told everybody that we thought we were going to be higher than our previous range of $275 million to $279 million.**Jeffrey J. Uttz:** ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Jeremy, ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ 2์–ต 8,100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋„ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๊ทผ์ ‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ž‘๋…„ ์ด๋ง˜๋•Œ ์ผ์–ด๋‚œ ์ผ์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ผ์ฐ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ ์ž…์žฅ์„ ์ทจํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„ 7์›”์€ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ ์ข‹์€ ํŒ๋‹จ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด์ „ ๋ฒ”์œ„์ธ 2์–ต 7,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 2์–ต 7,900๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋†’์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ „์—, ๊ทธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeremy Scott Hamblin: Totally understandable, especially when you guys were reporting in early April. Just one follow-up question I wanted to ask on labor. And so you had about 50 basis points of deleverage in the quarter. Obviously, the negative comp doesn't help on that. But I wanted to get a sense for where your -- what your wage rates are on a year-over-year basis currently? And then in terms of looking at Q4, where you would need to comp to see a positive leverage on that labor line item?**Jeremy Scott Hamblin:** ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ 4์›” ์ดˆ์— ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜์…จ์„ ๋•Œ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์•ฝ 50bp์˜ ๋””๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋งˆ์ด๋„ˆ์Šค ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ (negative comp)์ด ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ž„๊ธˆ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„์ธ์ง€ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์—์„œ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ ค๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ์ด ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] For Q4, our expectation is that we'll see mid- to low single-digit labor inflation, which would be an improvement from what we've seen in Q2 and Q3.**Benjamin Porten:** 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ค‘์ € ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜์˜ ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean? Once you share the actual spoken content, I'll be happy to translate it following the guidelines you've outlined.
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] It goes without saying that a positive comp makes it easier to lever labor year-over-year. And without giving really any commentary on quarter-to-date comps, we're very pleased with how the quarter is progressing. And -- sorry, go ahead, Jimmy.**Benjamin Porten:** ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ (comp)์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์‰ฌ์›Œ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ˆ„๊ณ„ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์–ธ๊ธ‰์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ... ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์ง€๋ฏธ ๋จผ์ € ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] One thing that we've been seeing unfold over the last couple of months is all the initiatives that we've been working on over the last year and really going as far back into last, last year, with the operational streamlining. And then this was supplemented by the new Mr. Fresh, the new touch panels and the reservation system. You see the benefit of those labor initiatives trend along with sales leverage. And we're seeing really everything blossom now. And so that's been a real pleasure to watch.**Benjamin Porten:** ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ๋™์•ˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ž‘๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋Š” ์žฌ์ž‘๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฑฐ์Šฌ๋Ÿฌ ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€์„œ ์šด์˜ ๊ฐ„์†Œํ™”์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด์˜จ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ฒฐ์‹ค์„ ๋งบ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด Mr. Fresh, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ„ฐ์น˜ ํŒจ๋„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์™„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ธ๋ ฅ ๊ด€๋ จ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ถœ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ค ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ •๋ง ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฝƒ์„ ํ”ผ์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Jeff Bernstein with Barclays.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋ฐ”ํด๋ ˆ์ด์ฆˆ์˜ ์ œํ”„ ๋ฒˆ์Šคํƒ€์ธ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹  ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeffrey Andrew Bernstein: Great. A couple of questions. The first one, just looking to clarify your comments on the tariff implications. It seems like you guys report shortly after tariff discussions. So I know last quarter, there was tariff rollout kind of right before you guys reported. And then I know there's been some Japan headlines around tariffs just in the past day or two. So I know it's difficult for you, but it sounds like you're fairly confident that there's no material impact. I'm just wondering if you could share any incremental color, especially now that we do have some specifics in terms of at least what's tariffs related to Japan. So any color you could provide in terms of the impact on the cost structure or any pricing you might take would be very helpful. And then I have a follow-up.**Jeffrey Andrew Bernstein:** ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ, ๊ด€์„ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ท€ํ•˜์˜ ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ท€ํ•˜๋“ค์ด ๊ด€์„ธ ๋…ผ์˜ ์งํ›„์— ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๊ท€ํ•˜๋“ค์ด ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ง์ „์— ๊ด€์„ธ ๋„์ž…์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€๋‚œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ดํ‹€ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์ผ๋ณธ ๊ด€๋ จ ๊ด€์„ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ—ค๋“œ๋ผ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ƒํ™ฉ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ์—†์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ด์ œ ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ ์ผ๋ณธ ๊ด€๋ จ ๊ด€์„ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋‚ด์šฉ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜์˜จ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ, ๋น„์šฉ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด๋‚˜ ์ทจํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์กฐ์น˜ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์„ค๋ช…์„ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeffrey J. Uttz: Sure, Jeff, this is Jeff. We knew this question was coming. So to be honest, I prerecorded last week -- late last week, and that's the tariff are commentary in there was related to last week. Obviously, this new news came out yesterday. So -- but what I can tell you is while there's -- we don't -- just because it's been 24 hours, I don't have a monetary impact yet based on the projected tariff. But I can tell you that about 45% of our basket comes from Japan, Korea and Vietnam. And so we'll be able to calculate an impact later. As I mentioned in previous calls, our Japanese suppliers have been very eager to sit with us and say, look, we'll share some of this impact. We don't know if that's 50-50, 60-40. We don't know those numbers yet. As soon as we get clarity on those numbers, and we'll be able to calculate more of a monetary impact of what it might do to our COGS, and we'll be able to share that at a future conference or in a future call. We also are hopeful that 25% is not the final number. As you know, these things have bounced around. Trump uses these things as leverage a lot of times as we know. And where it ends up by August 1, we will see. But we're in a good place in our COGS number right now in the low 28s. And if we do have an impact, we feel pretty good about the fact that, that impact shouldn't throw us north of 30%, even if it were really high. So it's a -- we're in a much better place than that our cost of goods sold, let's say, at 30.5% or 31%. So we're optimistic about what's going to happen over the next 3 to 4 weeks in terms of the negotiations, and we'll be able to have further color the next time we get in front of investors.**Jeffrey J. Uttz:** ๋„ค, ์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ์ค„ ์•Œ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†”์งํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ๋ง์— ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๋…นํ™”๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋•Œ ๊ด€์„ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰์€ ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด์ œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์†Œ์‹์ด ๋‚˜์™”์ฃ . ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ 24์‹œ๊ฐ„๋ฐ–์— ์ง€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ์˜ˆ์ƒ ๊ด€์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ธˆ์ „์  ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ์•„์ง ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค๋งŒ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ €ํฌ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ๋ฐ”์Šค์ผ“์˜ ์•ฝ 45%๊ฐ€ ์ผ๋ณธ, ํ•œ๊ตญ, ๋ฒ ํŠธ๋‚จ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ „ ์ฝœ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ์ผ๋ณธ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ์™€ ๋งŒ๋‚˜์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ถ„๋‹ดํ•˜์ž๊ณ  ๋งค์šฐ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ์•ˆํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด 50๋Œ€ 50์ธ์ง€, 60๋Œ€ 40์ธ์ง€๋Š” ์•„์ง ๋ชจ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ์•„์ง ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ์ˆ˜์น˜๋“ค์ด ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€(COGS)์— ๋ฏธ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธˆ์ „์  ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋” ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋‚˜ ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ 25%๊ฐ€ ์ตœ์ข… ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํฌ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ๊ณ„์† ๋ณ€๋™๋˜์–ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ํ˜‘์ƒ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŽ์ด ํ™œ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 8์›” 1์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฐ์ •๋ ์ง€ ์ง€์ผœ๋ด์•ผ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ˜„์žฌ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ 28% ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ ์–‘ํ˜ธํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›๋”๋ผ๋„, ๊ทธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ํฌ๋”๋ผ๋„ 30%๋ฅผ ๋„˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ 30.5%๋‚˜ 31%์˜€๋˜ ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋‚˜์€ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–ฅํ›„ 3-4์ฃผ๊ฐ„ ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ํ˜‘์ƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‚™๊ด€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์Œ๋ฒˆ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ๋งŒ๋‚  ๋•Œ ๋” ์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeffrey Andrew Bernstein: Understood. And then just on the restaurant margin. I know in past quarters you've talked about your, I guess, longer-term confidence sustaining the 20% plus, and I think you had been confident in achieving that in fiscal '25, though it looks like we're running more in the 17% to 18% range year-to-date. So I'm assuming it's going to be difficult to get to 20% in fiscal '25. I know you guys don't chase the margin, but I'm just wondering your perspective on the outlook for the margin in the fourth quarter and/or whether or not fiscal '26 in a more normalized environment, you'd be confident to suggest we could be back north of 20% again.**Jeffrey Andrew Bernstein:** ์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘ ๋งˆ์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋“ค์—์„œ 20% ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ง€์†ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ํ™•์‹ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๊ณ , 25ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๊ทธ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ž์‹ ํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” 17%์—์„œ 18% ๋ฒ”์œ„์—์„œ ์šด์˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 25ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— 20%์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ด๋ ค์šธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ์ซ“์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งˆ์ง„ ์ „๋ง์ด๋‚˜ ๋” ์ •์ƒํ™”๋œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ์˜ 26ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๋‹ค์‹œ 20% ์ด์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ž์‹  ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์ ์ด ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] Speaking to the current year, we're already more than 9 months into fiscal '25 and with the quarter-to-date -- I'm sorry, the year-to-date number, bridging that to a 20%-plus number is difficult. But we don't think there's anything that has structurally changed out our margins. And absolutely, 20% plus is our target for fiscal '26.**Benjamin Porten:** ํ˜„์žฌ ์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฏธ 25ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ 9๊ฐœ์›” ์ด์ƒ์ด ์ง€๋‚ฌ๊ณ  ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ˆ„๊ณ„... ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ˆ„๊ณ„ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ 20% ์ด์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋งˆ์ง„์— ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹คํžˆ 20% ์ด์ƒ์ด 26ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] Looking at fiscal '26, we're feeling very good about our position as it relates to comps. We're lapping fiscal '25, which had a 4 to 5 month stretch without IP campaigns. And next year, we have the most IP campaigns we've ever had. We also have the reservation for the full year. And so we -- just coming into the year, we're in a very strong position, and we see no reason that we wouldn't be able to achieve positive comps and had that flow through to a 20%-plus restaurant-level operating cost margin.**Benjamin Porten:** 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์œจ(comps) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์€ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” 4~5๊ฐœ์›” ๋™์•ˆ IP ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ์‹œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด์ œ ๊ทธ ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๋…„์—๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ค‘ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์€ IP ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๋„ ์šด์˜ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์—ฐ์ดˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํฌ์ง€์…˜์— ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์œจ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 20% ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋งค์žฅ ์šด์˜ ๋น„์šฉ ๋งˆ์ง„์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual spoken content that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] With positive comps, that would naturally allow us better leverage on labor occupancy, other costs, depreciation and that would drive our margin expansion or really a return to margin normalcy.**Benjamin Porten:** ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ(positive comps)์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„, ์ ํฌ ์šด์˜๋น„, ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋น„์šฉ, ๊ฐ๊ฐ€์ƒ๊ฐ๋น„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์ •์ƒ์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ง„ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ์˜ ํšŒ๋ณต์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeffrey Andrew Bernstein: Got it. If I could just slip one more in. Jeff, I know you like to talk about the G&A leverage, which lowering your target for this fiscal year, obviously, very impressive. I'm just wondering that further reduction, any color you can share in terms of the biggest buckets of these incremental savings and whether or not you think -- I know you took long term about being sub-10%, but should we continue assuming a path trajectory the way we've been seeing recently in terms of how we should think about fiscal '26 versus that sub-13% in fiscal '25?**Jeffrey Andrew Bernstein:** ๋„ค, ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋‚˜๋งŒ ๋” ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œํ”„, ์ผ๋ฐ˜๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์˜ฌ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”์‹  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ •๋ง ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์ ˆ๊ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ฆ๋ถ„ ์ ˆ์•ฝ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ 10% ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๊ฑธ๋กœ ์•„๋Š”๋ฐ, 25ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 13% ๋ฏธ๋งŒ ๋Œ€๋น„ 26ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์‹  ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ถค์ ์„ ๊ณ„์† ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeffrey J. Uttz: Yes. The biggest basket is really headcount. And the team and leadership in the support center and in field operations has done a really good job of figuring out how to better allocate work to everybody rather than just adding people when things get backed up. So it's really been a group effort, and salaries is the biggest piece of that G&A. So with everybody's focus, that's how we were able to get there. Now that leverage that we got this year was much higher than I expected, clearly, with the guidance raised from where we were at the beginning of the year in the mid-13s. So going forward, I do expect additional leverage. In the past, I think I had said 50 to 60 basis points a year. Next year, honestly, Jeff, I don't know if it will be quite that high just because of how much we got this year. I do expect leverage next year, but maybe not to that 50 to 60 basis point. But I do believe that in the future years, we might be able to get back there after we get through fiscal '26.**Jeffrey J. Uttz:** ๋„ค, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์ธ๋ ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€์›์„ผํ„ฐ์™€ ํ˜„์žฅ ์šด์˜ํŒ€์˜ ํŒ€๊ณผ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์ด ์—…๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ€๋ฆด ๋•Œ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง์›์—๊ฒŒ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋” ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ •๋ง ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ํŒ€ ์ „์ฒด์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ธ‰์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง์›์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘๋œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ฌํ•ด ์–ป์€ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋Š” ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋†’์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ์ดˆ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๊ฐ€ 13% ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์˜€๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์—์„œ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •๋œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ 50~60 ๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†”์งํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ๋‚ด๋…„์—๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด๋งŒํผ ๋†’์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋งŽ์ด ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ๋‚ด๋…„์—๋„ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 50~60 ๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์•„๋‹ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„, ํŠนํžˆ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ฉด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ทธ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Andrew Charles with TD Cowen.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ TD Cowen์˜ Andrew Charles๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹  ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Zachary Ogden: This is Zach Ogden on for Andrew. Just based on our math, it looks like the new store productivity has improved so far in 2025 relative to 2024. So are you seeing the class of 2025 opening stronger than the class of 2024? And if so, what's that driven by?**Zachary Ogden:** ์•ˆ๋“œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•ด์„œ ์žญ ์˜ค๊ทธ๋“ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด 2025๋…„ ๋“ค์–ด ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์ด 2024๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด 2025๋…„ ์˜คํ”ˆ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์ด 2024๋…„ ์˜คํ”ˆ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”? ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์›์ธ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?
Jeremy Scott Hamblin: [Foreign Language]**Jeremy Scott Hamblin:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] Yes, fiscal '25 is certainly stronger than fiscal '24. It's one of the strongest classes we've had in recent memory, we're really, really pleased. A big part of that would be our opening up of the Pacific Northwest, as Jimmy mentioned in his prepared remarks, Lynnwood pretty much immediately entered our top 5. And so that's been a great tailwind for us.**Benjamin Porten:** ๋„ค, 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํžˆ 2024 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ๊ธฐ์–ต์— ๋‚จ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์ค‘ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํด๋ž˜์Šค ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ, ์ •๋ง ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ํฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ Jimmy๊ฐ€ ์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ํƒœํ‰์–‘ ๋ถ์„œ๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ ์ง„์ถœ์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฆฐ์šฐ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ƒ์œ„ 5์œ„ ์•ˆ์— ์ง„์ž…ํ–ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ์ˆœํ’์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific English management response from the earnings call Q&A that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] And besides building out one of the most promising markets that we've had, we've also been exploring new DMAs. So Fishers in Indiana would be an example. Bakersfield is another example that we've returned to over the past couple of earnings calls, but all of them are doing very well. And what's critical about Fishers and Bakersfield is that they provide data points for us in terms of our pipeline building in the future and gives us that much more optionality in terms of how we build our pipeline. And that's really going to be the biggest part of us getting back to a 50-50 split for fiscal '27. And so we're very pleased across the board with the performance, not just in infilling existing markets where we knew that we do well, but having positive surprises in new markets as well.**Benjamin Porten:** ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์œ ๋งํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์™ธ์—๋„, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด DMA๋“ค์„ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๋””์• ๋‚˜์˜ ํ”ผ์…”์Šค๊ฐ€ ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์‹œ์ด๊ณ , ๋ฒ ์ด์ปค์Šคํ•„๋“œ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜ˆ์‹œ์ธ๋ฐ, ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ”ผ์…”์Šค์™€ ๋ฒ ์ด์ปค์Šคํ•„๋“œ์—์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ ์€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ ๊ตฌ์ถ• ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด์ค€๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ ๊ตฌ์ถ• ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ์žˆ์–ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์„ ํƒ๊ถŒ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ 2027 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— 50๋Œ€ 50 ๋น„์œจ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ๊ธฐ์กด ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ๋„ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Zachary Ogden: Got it. And then just last call, you had called out a $300,000 to $400,000 impact to new store build costs from tariffs. Has that expectation changed at all since the last call based on the different tariff rates?**Zachary Ogden:** ๋„ค, ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๊ด€์„ธ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฑด์„ค ๋น„์šฉ์— 30๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 40๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ด€์„ธ์œจ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ ์ง€๋‚œ ์ฝœ ์ดํ›„ ๊ทธ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeffrey J. Uttz: No, that $300,000 to $400,000 is still our expectation at worst-case scenario given the comp tariff situation.**Jeffrey J. Uttz:** ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, 30๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 40๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ด€์„ธ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•œ ์ตœ์•…์˜ ์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ์˜ค์—์„œ์˜ ์ €ํฌ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Todd Brooks with The Benchmark Company.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ The Benchmark Company์˜ Todd Brooks๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Todd Morrison Brooks: Congratulations on the results this quarter. Great to see. Two quick questions. One following up on reservation. I know we're a little ways away from getting quantifiable data. But just from what you're seeing in the early experience with the platforms in place, are you seeing those larger boosts around lunch and maybe late night kind of those where you knew you had capacity if you could unlock it with the surety of being able to get a seat? And then another follow-up on the reservation side. I know that we've really, I think, just started promoting it to loyalty program members recently. Thoughts on the ability to take it to non-loyalty and message it more broadly and draw some new people to the brand to try the restaurant. Or do we need to leg into that just to handle the capacity that we could get in a pickup from loyalty program members alone?**Todd Morrison Brooks:** ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ถ•ํ•˜๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋„ค์š”. ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ด€๋ จ ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋Ÿ‰์ ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์•„์ง ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ข€ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ˜„์žฌ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๊ธฐ์—, ์ ์‹ฌ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด๋‚˜ ๋Šฆ์€ ๋ฐค ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€์—์„œ ๋” ํฐ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ์ขŒ์„์„ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์žก์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ธฐ์กด์— ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ์—ฌ์œ  ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€ ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ์— ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ํšŒ์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋งŒ ์ด๋ฅผ ํ™๋ณดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ๋น„ํšŒ์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋” ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•ด์„œ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์„ ์œ ์น˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘์„ ์ฒดํ—˜ํ•ด๋ณด๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ํšŒ์›๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋งŒ ํ”ฝ์—…์œผ๋กœ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋ผ๋„ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?
Jeffrey J. Uttz: No, absolutely. To answer your second question first, that is absolutely the next thing that's on the docket for us. Right now, our guests have been organically discovering it -- I'm sorry, our rewards members have been organically discovering it as the reservation button is exactly where the old waitlist button was. And so there's really no change to the guest flow and people discover it pretty naturally. Otherwise, it's been secondary messaging in our marketing e-mails. But we do believe that this is a massive, massive catalyst for rewards member registrations. And so certainly, we want to capture that. In terms of what we've seen in the early days, just given that our last restaurant rolled out in mid-June, I don't want to key any numbers that you're going to be basing your modeling off of. But one really important point that we've been able to corroborate for statistical analysis is that half of our -- more than half of our debt with reservations are being ceded within 2 minutes of arrival, which -- I mean, that's night and day from what guest were used to. And so I guess you can get a pretty clear idea of the massive opportunity there is here.**Jeffrey J. Uttz:** ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋จผ์ € ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์Œ์— ์ถ”์ง„ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ €ํฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋ฆฌ์›Œ๋“œ ํšŒ์›๋“ค์ด ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์•ผ๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”. ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ๋ฒ„ํŠผ์ด ๊ธฐ์กด ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์ž ๋ช…๋‹จ ๋ฒ„ํŠผ๊ณผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๊ฐ™์€ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ์—๋Š” ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์—†๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ฝค ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์™ธ์—๋Š” ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ์—์„œ ๋ถ€์ฐจ์ ์ธ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฆฌ์›Œ๋“œ ํšŒ์› ๊ฐ€์ž…์— ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ์ด‰๋งค์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ์ด๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋งค์žฅ์ด 6์›” ์ค‘์ˆœ์— ๋„์ž…๋œ ์ ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์ด ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง์— ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์‹ค ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ์•„์ง ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ†ต๊ณ„ ๋ถ„์„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์ •๋ง ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ ์ด ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์„ ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜ ์ด์ƒ์ด ๋„์ฐฉ ํ›„ 2๋ถ„ ์ด๋‚ด์— ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ์•‰๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๊ธฐ์กด์— ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ๋Š” ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ํฐ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ง์ž‘ํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Todd Morrison Brooks: That's fantastic. And then a final question, and I'll jump back in queue. You've talked about the IP partnership and the strength that you're seeing and the coverage that you're seeing. I think there was a comment that you'll be covered for all the weeks of fiscal '26 versus being dark on IP partnerships for 4 to 5 months here in fiscal '25. I know we're not going to get details on what's making up the pipeline. But can you talk qualitatively about the quality of the pipeline and maybe the magnitude of the partners? Because it sounds like there's that much more internal effort against it as well with the new committee and just really a focus on extracting more return out of these efforts?**Todd Morrison Brooks:** ์ •๋ง ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•˜๋„ค์š”. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋งŒ ๋” ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—ด๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. IP ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๊ฐ•์„ธ์™€ ์ปค๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. 25ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— IP ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์ด 4~5๊ฐœ์›”๊ฐ„ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ 26ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฃผ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ปค๋ฒ„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์–ธ๊ธ‰์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ธ๋ถ€์‚ฌํ•ญ์€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์€ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์˜ ํ’ˆ์งˆ๊ณผ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์˜ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •์„ฑ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์œ„์›ํšŒ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์ ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ธฐ์šธ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ์š”?
Jeffrey J. Uttz: Yes. I mean, speaking in terms of -- if you just look at our pipeline from past years, it's pretty clear that the properties just get bigger and better every year. I think one thing that's really key to our new strategy is that while we have been able to get consistently bigger partners, they haven't necessarily translated to bigger sales. And just by having more partnerships per year that gives us more at bats, that many more opportunities to discover really what's going to be successful, what's going to build our portfolio based off of that. And so the upcoming several campaigns that we have are Demon Slayer and One Piece, which are two of the best -- two of the best properties we've partnered with. Following that, we have Kirby, which is the biggest Nintendo property that we've ever partnered with. We're very pleased. But the new -- the renewed focus on the IP collaborations, I think, is going to be a very key part of our discussions as it relates to fiscal '26. We're being a little bit more experimental. So for instance, with the current hololive campaign, we don't have associated bigger upon giveaways, but it's still been a massive traffic driver because of the intensity of the fandom. So we've got these cups for sale, and we have food collaborations, but that's still been a very meaningful traffic driver. And having these campaigns without -- that are relatively sort of investment light, let's us be that much more experimental, let's us have that any more campaigns per year, which will get us closer to that ideal portfolio that much faster.**Jeffrey J. Uttz:** ๋„ค, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์„ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋งค๋…„ ๋” ํฌ๊ณ  ์ข‹์€ IP๋“ค์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด์™”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ „๋žต์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ํฐ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด์™”์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๋” ํฐ ๋งค์ถœ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ์ฒด๊ฒฐํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜๊ณ , ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€, ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ ์ค‘์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ท€๋ฉธ์˜ ์นผ๋‚ (Demon Slayer)๊ณผ ์›ํ”ผ์Šค(One Piece)๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ๋‘ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ๋งบ์€ IP ์ค‘์—์„œ๋„ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ๋งบ์€ ๋‹Œํ…๋„ IP ์ค‘ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์ธ ์ปค๋น„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ IP ์ฝœ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ง‘์ค‘์  ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋…ผ์˜์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ข€ ๋” ์‹คํ—˜์ ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ํ™€๋กœ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ๊ฒฝํ’ˆ ์ฆ์ • ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋Š” ์—†์ง€๋งŒ, ํŒฌ๋ค์˜ ์—ด์ • ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ์œ ๋„ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ๋งค์šฉ ์ปต๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๊ณ  ํ‘ธ๋“œ ์ฝœ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ˆ์ด์…˜๋„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ์œ ๋„ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌ์ž ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ด ์ ์€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ์‹คํ—˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด์ƒ์ ์ธ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์— ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋„๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Mark Smith with Lake Street Capital.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Lake Street Capital์˜ Mark Smith๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mark Eric Smith: Just as we look at restaurant-level expenses here, I just wanted to dig in on other costs. Is this purely utilities or other things that drove that a little bit higher here during the quarter?**Mark Eric Smith:** ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋น„์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ด ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋†’์•„์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ˆœ์ „ํžˆ ์œ ํ‹ธ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] In terms of what's really the major components of our other costs growing as compared to, say, a couple of years ago, it's really just minor growth across the board. So slight increases in R&M costs, slight increases in utilities. Really, the way that we think about it is the other cost numbers for Q2 were abnormally low. And so you can sort of think of the 14.7% we had for Q3 as a bounce back. Year-to-date, our other costs as a percentage of sales is 14.3%, which is exactly where it was for the full year fiscal '24. We think that 14-percent-ish is where we're going to be running for the foreseeable future.**Benjamin Porten:** ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด์„œ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋Š” ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œํญ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ ์œ ์ง€๋ณด์ˆ˜(R&M) ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๋Š˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์œ ํ‹ธ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ๋น„์šฉ๋„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ด€์ ์€ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋น„์šฉ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋น„์ •์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ฎ์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ 14.7%๋Š” ์ผ์ข…์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ์ดˆ ๋ˆ„๊ณ„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋น„์šฉ ๋น„์œจ์€ 14.3%์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” 2024 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „์ฒด์™€ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ–ฅํ›„ ์˜ˆ์ธก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ 14% ์ˆ˜์ค€์—์„œ ์šด์˜๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mark Eric Smith: Perfect. And then just similar as we think about G&A, I know that, Jeff, you just talked a little bit about kind of people and salaries and things that are in there. It's great seeing that guidance come down. Has there been -- have there been cuts? Or are you continuing to add people? I'd just love more insight into kind of how you're managing G&A and if it's purposeful kind of keeping the belt tight or if it's just kind of the sales growth that's keeping that down and leading to the guidance that we saw here today?**Mark Eric Smith:** ์™„๋ฒฝํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  G&A์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๋น„์Šทํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด, Jeff, ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ธ‰์—ฌ ๋“ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๊ฐ€ ํ•˜ํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •๋œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ข‹๋„ค์š”. ์ธ๋ ฅ ๊ฐ์ถ•์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‚˜์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๊ณ„์† ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์ถฉ์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? G&A๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ—ˆ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฅผ ์กธ๋ผ๋งค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๊ฑด์ง€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์–ต์ œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง„ ๊ฑด์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ์ž์„ธํ•œ ํ†ต์ฐฐ์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeffrey J. Uttz: It's purposeful, keeping it down. We -- it's not due to cuts. We have not cut people, and we do not plan to cut people. This is more of slowing down the hiring. And I think it's a change in mindset. We, several years ago, maybe were a little quick to hire people when things got a little rough and rather than thinking about alternative ways to do things, how we allocate work, how we can see who has some bandwidth to take on some more things. And everybody has done just a good job of doing that. So when there is a new hire request, it gets a lot more scrutiny now than when I first started with the company. And people are just thinking about different ways of doing things and the approval process for new hires goes through a lot more people than it did previously. And I challenge it quite a bit as a financial officer. To give a good example, when I joined the company, we were able to cut the number of requested new hires in the budget in half or more than half. It was like from like 21 requested new hires, I think we went down to 6 or 7 and that was 3 years ago, and it's worked out. So with that change in mindset, I think that it's the way that we will be doing things in the foreseeable future, which is why I'm very optimistic about that. And north of 300 basis points of leverage over 3 years is something that we are very proud of as a management team.**Jeffrey J. Uttz:** ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์›์„ ์–ต์ œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๋ ฅ ๊ฐ์ถ• ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง์›์„ ํ•ด๊ณ ํ•œ ์ ๋„ ์—†๊ณ  ํ•ด๊ณ ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš๋„ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฑ„์šฉ ์†๋„๋ฅผ ๋Šฆ์ถ”๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ฐ€๊น์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ์ „์—๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์ง€๋ฉด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์ฑ„์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•, ์—…๋ฌด ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ๋ฐฉ์‹, ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ผ์„ ๋งก์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง์›์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์ธ์ง€ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋Œ€์•ˆ์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋“ค์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง์›๋“ค์ด ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์—์„œ ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ํ•ด์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ฑ„์šฉ ์š”์ฒญ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ์ฒ˜์Œ ์ž…์‚ฌํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋ฉด๋ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง์›๋“ค์ด ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋“ค์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ฑ„์šฉ ์Šน์ธ ๊ณผ์ •๋„ ์ด์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๊ฑฐ์น˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฌด๋‹ด๋‹น์ž๋กœ์„œ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์—„๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์—์„œ ์š”์ฒญ๋œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ฑ„์šฉ ์ธ์›์„ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜ ์ด์ƒ ์ค„์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 21๋ช…์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ฑ„์šฉ ์š”์ฒญ์—์„œ 6~7๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ์ค„์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ 3๋…„ ์ „ ์ผ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ  ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ž˜ ์šด์˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฐ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋‚™๊ด€์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ 300 ๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ(basis points) ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mark Eric Smith: Excellent. And if I can squeeze in one more. As we think about the success as you moved into maybe some smaller markets, does that change your outlook on kind of your total pipeline and how many units you think you can build across the U.S. over time?**Mark Eric Smith:** ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‚˜๋งŒ ๋” ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด์š”. ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์‹œ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„์ถœํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฑฐ๋‘” ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ „์ฒด ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋ง๊ณผ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฑด์„คํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ ๋‹› ์ˆ˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‚˜์š”?
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual spoken content that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific English text from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean? Once you share the actual management response, I'll be happy to translate it following the guidelines you've outlined.
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] Of course. We're happy for you to fill in whatever that number you think will be.**Benjamin Porten:** ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ท€ํ•˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์น˜๋กœ ์ฑ„์›Œ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Jon Tower with Citi.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์”จํ‹ฐ์˜ ์กด ํƒ€์›Œ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹  ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jon Michael Tower: Maybe, Jeff, following up to the comment you made earlier on tariffs and the idea of COGS, maybe moving north of 30% or maybe not hitting north of 30%. So I guess the implication there is that you guys would absorb all the impact of any sort of tariffs rolling through, even if you're negotiating with your suppliers there. Or better said, you're not going to necessarily take pricing to offset the impact of tariffs on COGS. Is that the best way to interpret that?**Jon Michael Tower:** ์ œํ”„, ์•ž์„œ ๊ด€์„ธ์™€ ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€(COGS)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ด์–ด์„œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ 30%๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด์„ค ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์™€ ํ˜‘์ƒ์„ ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ๊ด€์„ธ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ํก์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ๋กœ ํ•ด์„๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งํ•ด, ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ƒ์‡„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋งž์„๊นŒ์š”?
Jeffrey J. Uttz: Well, we would take on the portion that we agreed to with the vendors, wherever that ends up, whether it's 50-50 or whatever. Yes, pricing is the last resort. But I will tell you that our effective pricing in November goes down to 1%. So when that happens, we do have some pricing power if we need to do that, but we want to leave that as a last option, certainly, but we could do that. We're just hopeful that the 25% number that's currently out there will end up being much lower. And that's where -- what the hope is going to be. And again, it's been 24 hours. And I think as Jeff Bernstein said earlier, unfortunately, we get to deal with these things within a day or 2 after they happen on the last 2 calls. So we will have more color on this as we get further in, but that's our current thought process.**Jeffrey J. Uttz:** ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฒค๋”๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•ฉ์˜ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด 50๋Œ€ 50์ด๋“  ์–ด๋–ค ๋น„์œจ์ด๋“  ์ƒ๊ด€์—†์ด ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ๋„ค, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์€ ์ตœํ›„์˜ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ 11์›”์— ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์‹คํšจ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ๋ฅ ์ด 1%๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ํ•„์š”ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฐ์ •๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์„ ์ตœํ›„์˜ ์„ ํƒ์ง€๋กœ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋‘๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€๋งŒ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ˜„์žฌ ๋‚˜์™€ ์žˆ๋Š” 25%๋ผ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋‚ฎ์•„์ง€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํฌ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฐ”์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ์ผ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚œ ์ง€ 24์‹œ๊ฐ„๋ฐ–์— ์•ˆ ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ œํ”„ ๋ฒˆ์Šคํƒ€์ธ์ด ์•ž์„œ ๋งํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ์•ˆํƒ€๊น๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ง€๋‚œ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ผ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ํ›„ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋‚˜ ์ดํ‹€ ๋‚ด์— ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ˜„์žฌ๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development And just to add on that, as it relates to COGS, I think we have a massive opportunity in fiscal '26 through the light rice program that Jimmy had mentioned. I had the opportunity to try for the first time last week. And typically, I'll top out at 5 or 6 plates. I ate at least 10 plates without thinking about it. And I'm sure that there are going to be tons of other guests that are just as enthusiastic about this. And so if we can really get what we expect from the light rice, that's a big lever for us for fiscal '26. And as Jeff mentioned, we want to pull every other lever before we pull pricing.**Benjamin Porten:** ์›๊ฐ€(COGS)์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ง€๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋ผ์ดํŠธ ๋ผ์ด์Šค ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด 26ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ์— ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์‹ํ•ด๋ณผ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋ณดํ†ต ์ €๋Š” 5-6์ ‘์‹œ ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ณ„์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ๋„ ์•ˆ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ตœ์†Œ 10์ ‘์‹œ๋Š” ๋จน์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์ €๋งŒํผ ์—ด๊ด‘ํ•  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๋„ ๋งŽ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋ผ์ดํŠธ ๋ผ์ด์Šค์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ •๋ง๋กœ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ด๋Š” 26ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ œํ”„๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆ˜๋‹จ๋“ค์„ ๋จผ์ € ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jon Michael Tower: Got it. And can you just speak to what that light rice is? I just haven't heard of it before.**Jon Michael Tower:** ๋„ค, ๋ผ์ดํŠธ ๋ผ์ด์Šค(light rice)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ „์— ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜์…จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‹ˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ฃ .

๋ผ์ดํŠธ ๋ผ์ด์Šค๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์Œ€๋ณด๋‹ค ์นผ๋กœ๋ฆฌ์™€ ํƒ„์ˆ˜ํ™”๋ฌผ ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ค„์ธ ์Œ€ ์ œํ’ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ณต ๊ณผ์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์Œ€์•Œ์˜ ์ „๋ถ„ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œ์ผœ ์ฒด๋‚ด ํก์ˆ˜์œจ์„ ๋‚ฎ์ถ˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ .

๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ์ค‘์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค, ํŠนํžˆ ๋‹ค์ด์–ดํŠธ๋‚˜ ํ˜ˆ๋‹น ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ„๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋†’์•„์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์Œ€๊ณผ ๋ง›์ด๋‚˜ ์‹๊ฐ์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋น„์Šทํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์นผ๋กœ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์•ฝ 20-30% ์ •๋„ ๋‚ฎ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development Yes. So it's for most of our nigri options, when you order on the touch panel, you'll have an option like regular rice or light rice, and the light rice is just a -- it's a smaller portion of rice.**Benjamin Porten:** ๋„ค, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ ์˜ต์…˜์—์„œ ํ„ฐ์น˜ํŒจ๋„๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹ค ๋•Œ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐฅ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ผ์ดํŠธ ๋ฐฅ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜ต์…˜์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ผ์ดํŠธ ๋ฐฅ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋ฐฅ์˜ ์–‘์„ ์ ๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jon Michael Tower: Okay. So lower COGS. So same price point, lower COGS.**Jon Michael Tower:** ๋„ค, ๋” ๋‚ฎ์€ ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€(COGS)์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์ผํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋Œ€์—์„œ ๋” ๋‚ฎ์€ ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development Lower COGS, but also -- it's not as filling. And so I ate twice as much as I usually do, when I was choosing light rice options.**Benjamin Porten:** ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€(COGS)๋Š” ๋‚ฎ์•„์ง€์ง€๋งŒ, ํฌ๋งŒ๊ฐ๋„ ๋–จ์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์šด ์Œ€ ์˜ต์…˜์„ ์„ ํƒํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ํ‰์†Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ๋‚˜ ๋งŽ์ด ๋จน๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jon Michael Tower: Okay. And then just on -- I know fiscal '27, you're pointing to getting back to a 50-50 split on new versus emerging markets -- or excuse me, new versus existing markets. Can you speak to that number for new stores in '26 -- I'm sorry, if I misspoke, I meant '27, you're talking about new stores, 50-50? What that looks like in '26? And then are you still anticipating, I think, roughly a 4% or so cannibalization number dragging on the business next year?**Jon Michael Tower:** ๋„ค, 2027 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‹œ์žฅ ๋Œ€ ๊ธฐ์กด ์‹œ์žฅ ๋น„์œจ์„ 50๋Œ€ 50์œผ๋กœ ๋˜๋Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. 2026๋…„ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ณ„ํš์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์•„์ง ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ž๊ธฐ์ž ์‹(cannibalization) ํšจ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ๋„ค, ๋‚ด๋…„์—๋„ ๋Œ€๋žต 4% ์ •๋„์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐœ์ ์ด ๊ธฐ์กด ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง€ํ‘œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ „์ฒด ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ ํ™•๋Œ€์™€ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋” ํฐ ์ด์ต์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] In terms of our expectations for fiscal '26, we're looking at a pipeline where it's going to be about 70% existing markets, 30% new. In terms of the impact of the existing -- the new units in existing markets, we think it's going to be largely in line with the 400 basis point headwind that we saw in fiscal '25 and '24.**Benjamin Porten:** 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ ์ „๋ง์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์กด ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ์•ฝ 70%, ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‹œ์žฅ์ด 30% ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์กด ์‹œ์žฅ ๋‚ด ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, 2025๋…„๋„์™€ 2024๋…„๋„์— ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ–ˆ๋˜ 400 ๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์—ญํ’๊ณผ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋กœ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] And then as it relates to fiscal '27, we expect to continue to maintain that 20% unit growth. We do think we'll be able to get back to that 50-50, which would naturally just cut that comp headwind in half.**Benjamin Porten:** 2027 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š” 20% ๋‹จ์œ„ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 50๋Œ€ 50 ๋น„์œจ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์กด ๋งค์žฅ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์—ญํ’์„ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์ค„์—ฌ์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jon Michael Tower: Okay. And then just last piece for me. In terms of -- it's great to hear the IP collaboration stepping up next year, and it sounds like you're going to be on pretty much all year throughout the year in fiscal '26. In the past, I think you've kind of had some hit or misses when it comes to some of the IP tie-ins. So can you speak to your confidence or how you're approaching it differently this time to ensure that the hit rates are higher than perhaps past initiatives or past IP tie-ins that you've had?**Jon Michael Tower:** ๋„ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ๋” ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. IP ์ฝœ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ๋‚ด๋…„์— ํ™•๋Œ€๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ์‹์„ ๋“ค์œผ๋‹ˆ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹๊ณ , 26ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ผ ๋…„ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ IP ํƒ€์ด์ธ์—์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณต๊ณผ ์‹คํŒจ๊ฐ€ ์—‡๊ฐˆ๋ ธ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ IP ํƒ€์ด์ธ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ์„ฑ๊ณต๋ฅ ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ™•์‹ ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Jeffrey J. Uttz: Yes. Well, I think the biggest frustration in the past was really sort of opportunity cost where if you had a miss, it wasn't just that you had a miss, you had a miss that was eating up 2 months of your calendar that could be better spent with a better collaboration. And just by having 7 to 8, which is meaningfully more than we've had this year and it's the most that we've had of any year, we get that many more tries, so to speak, to find what the successful ones are. And based off of those successes, we know what to repeat in future years.**Jeffrey J. Uttz:** ๋„ค, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์ขŒ์ ˆ๊ฐ์€ ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ธฐํšŒ๋น„์šฉ ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹คํŒจํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์‹คํŒจ๋กœ ๋๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ํ˜‘์—…์— ์“ธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ 2๊ฐœ์›”์˜ ์ผ์ •์„ ์žก์•„๋จน๋Š” ์‹คํŒจ์˜€๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ์ด์ œ 7~8๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ์€ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ด๊ณ  ์—ญ๋Œ€ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๋„๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋“ค์„ ์ฐพ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์•„์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋“ค์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jon Michael Tower: Got it. So it's effectively just, frankly, sprinkling in more throughout the year so you have a better idea of what works and what you can repeat. Thanks for taking the questions.**Jon Michael Tower:** ๋„ค, ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ๋ถ„์‚ฐํ•ด์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜์—ฌ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ์ด ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋” ์ž˜ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Jim Sanderson with Northcoast Research.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Northcoast Research์˜ Jim Sanderson๋‹˜์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
James Jon Sanderson: Congratulations on great quarter. I wanted to talk a little bit more about the mix component of same-store sales. How you expect that to progress going forward if that's related to how you're rolling out collaborations and how we should look at that as you roll off pricing in November?**James Jon Sanderson:** ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ์ถ•ํ•˜๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ๋งค์ถœ(same-store sales)์˜ ๋ฏน์Šค ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ฝœ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์ถœ์‹œ ๋ฐฉ์‹๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  11์›”์— ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ •์ฑ…์ด ์ข…๋ฃŒ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided is marked as "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain any actual text to translate. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean? Once you share the actual spoken content, I'll be happy to translate it following the guidelines you've outlined.
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] We're very excited to see where we can bring mix in fiscal '26. So over the last couple of years, our mix has gone from negative high single digits to hovering between negative low single digits to mid-single digits. Part of that from this fiscal year would be the headwind from the -- the lack of IP collaborations. We have -- typically, with every IP collaboration, we'll have a giveaway that's associated with a certain spending threshold, typically $70 or so. Our most -- the giveaway campaign that we have for hololive was actually at a higher dollar threshold because we saw there's that much guest interest for it. And so that naturally drives average ticket. The light rice, we think is a big opportunity in terms of average check growth. I fully -- my personal expectation is that this will grow the number of plates per person. And I think that's really an opportunity that we're going to be leading into. The other is the 25th plate initiative. We're really pleased with the early results. What we have seen is pretty much exactly what we expected is minor pressure on transactions above 30 plates, but more than enough growth in the 25 plate plus category to offset that. And so we're really happy to see that.**Benjamin Porten:** ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 26ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๋ฏน์Šค๋ฅผ ์–ด๋””๊นŒ์ง€ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ €ํฌ ๋ฏน์Šค๋Š” ๋งˆ์ด๋„ˆ์Šค ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ํ›„๋ฐ˜์—์„œ ๋งˆ์ด๋„ˆ์Šค ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜์—์„œ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์˜ค๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ IP ์ฝœ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋ถ€์กฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์—ญํ’์ด ์ผ๋ถ€ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ IP ์ฝœ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ํŠน์ • ์ง€์ถœ ๊ธฐ์ค€์ , ๋ณดํ†ต 70๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ •๋„์™€ ์—ฐ๊ณ„๋œ ์ฆ์ •ํ’ˆ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์„ ์‹ค์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™€๋กœ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ์™€ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•œ ์ฆ์ •ํ’ˆ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋” ๋†’์€ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ์ค€์ ์„ ์„ค์ •ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ๋†’๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ํ‰๊ท  ๊ฐ๋‹จ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ผ์ดํŠธ ๋ผ์ด์Šค๋Š” ํ‰๊ท  ๊ฐ๋‹จ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ํฐ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด 1์ธ๋‹น ์ ‘์‹œ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋Š˜๋ฆด ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒƒ์€ 25๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ ‘์‹œ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์ผ์น˜ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, 30์ ‘์‹œ ์ด์ƒ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์—์„œ๋Š” ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ์••๋ฐ•์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 25์ ‘์‹œ ์ด์ƒ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ƒ์‡„ํ•˜๊ณ ๋„ ๋‚จ์„ ๋งŒํผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
James Jon Sanderson: All right. Just wanted to talk a little bit more about the res system as it's related to membership levels. Have you seen any notable increase in membership in the fourth quarter? Or could you update us on where that membership rate is?**James Jon Sanderson:** ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๋ฉค๋ฒ„์‹ญ ๋ ˆ๋ฒจ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ฉค๋ฒ„์‹ญ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋„๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฉค๋ฒ„์‹ญ ๋น„์œจ์ด ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„์ธ์ง€ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
Jeffrey J. Uttz: So membership rates are -- the growth rate is pretty much the same as past quarters. And a big part of that is we haven't communicated a reservation system to non-rewards members yet. And so I expect in November, I'll be able to give you the answer you're looking for.**Jeffrey J. Uttz:** ๋ฉค๋ฒ„์‹ญ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์œจ์€ ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ์•„์ง ๋น„๋ฆฌ์›Œ๋“œ ํšŒ์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์•ˆ๋‚ดํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 11์›”์—๋Š” ์›ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
James Jon Sanderson: Very good. Last question for me. Could you just update us on the various technology initiatives you've got in process? I think you've got the res system you're just finishing. I think you've got some point-of-sale issues to resolve. And then there's the robotic dishwasher. Is there anything else out there that could have an impact, good or bad on operations going forward?**James Jon Sanderson:** ๋„ค, ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๋ง‰ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , POS ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ด์Šˆ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋กœ๋ด‡ ์‹๊ธฐ์„ธ์ฒ™๊ธฐ๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ ์š”. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜์— ๊ธ์ •์ ์ด๋“  ๋ถ€์ •์ ์ด๋“  ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๋“ค์ด ๋” ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] Yes. One of the biggest things that we're excited for fiscal '26 would be the dish robot. Our strong hope was to get it live in fiscal '25, but I'm not sure if we'll be able to do that, but it really does seem like we'll be able to get certification within a matter of months. The units that we're building in fiscal '26 are built from the blueprint stage, assuming the eventual installation of these robots. And so that's going to be a very meaningful opportunity, should reduce headcount fully 2:1.**Benjamin Porten:** ๋„ค, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์„ค๊ฑฐ์ง€ ๋กœ๋ด‡์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๋„์ž…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํฌ๋ง์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ• ์ง€๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ์•ˆ์— ์ธ์ฆ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๊ฑด์„คํ•˜๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์€ ์„ค๊ณ„ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋กœ๋ด‡์˜ ์ตœ์ข… ์„ค์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฑด์„ค๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์™„์ „ํžˆ 2๋Œ€ 1๋กœ ์ค„์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] And then while the reservation system is at each of our restaurants, we still see lots of opportunity for improvements, especially as it relates to employee efficiency. We have -- we've got a list of about 70 different things that we're working on as it relates to the reservation system. And that, we think, is going to have a pretty meaningful upside opportunities as it relates to front-of- house efficiencies.**Benjamin Porten:** ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ๊ฐ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘์— ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ์—ฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ง์› ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ํ˜„์žฌ ์•ฝ 70๊ฐ€์ง€ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์„ ์ž‘์—…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ”„๋ก ํŠธ ์˜ค๋ธŒ ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค(front-of-house) ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒ์Šน ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And our next question comes from the line of George Kelly with ROTH Capital Partners.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ROTH Capital Partners์˜ George Kelly๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
George Arthur Kelly: First, most of them have been asked and answered. But just a quick follow-up on the prior question. Can you be any more specific about the efficiency opportunity that you see available in 2026 from reservations?**George Arthur Kelly:** ๋จผ์ €, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด์ „ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์—์„œ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๋Š” ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development Yes. So just as a couple of examples, the seating process is meaningfully simplified before when the seater or the host who was seating a guest, they had to enter information on 3 different terminals, and we've cut that labor by 2/3. So there's only 1 terminal that are touching in the process itself is simplified. One unexpected efficiency opportunity that we've seen is in bussing. And this really -- this hasn't occurred to me until I've actually seen this happen in the restaurants once we've implemented it, but there's an element of psychological pressure when you have reservation times that you promised somebody. Before we did it on a waitlist and so you need like parties 26, 27, 28 were waiting. And that's a different feeling from being at 07:30, knowing that there are 3 parties that you promised to seat them at 07:00, waiting for you. And so the bussers are actually moving more quickly. And so that's opportunity, especially in the peak hours. And so I'm excited to see just how much we can get out of that.**Benjamin Porten:** ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ขŒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์น˜ ๊ณผ์ •์ด ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด์ „์—๋Š” ์ขŒ์„ ์•ˆ๋‚ด ์ง์›์ด๋‚˜ ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ์•ˆ๋‚ดํ•  ๋•Œ 3๊ฐœ์˜ ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์— ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ž…๋ ฅํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ์ž‘์—…๋Ÿ‰์„ 3๋ถ„์˜ 2 ์ค„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋งŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ๋˜๊ณ  ๊ณผ์ • ์ž์ฒด๋„ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„  ๊ธฐํšŒ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ” ์ •๋ฆฌ ์ž‘์—…์—์„œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•œ ํ›„ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ผ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ „๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ธ๋ฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์•ฝ์†ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ์••๋ฐ•๊ฐ์ด ์ž‘์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ „์—๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ๋ชฉ๋ก ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— 26๋ฒˆ, 27๋ฒˆ, 28๋ฒˆ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 7์‹œ 30๋ถ„์— ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ 7์‹œ์— ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์•ฝ์†ํ•œ 3ํŒ€์˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ๋Š” ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋А๋‚Œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋ฒ„์„œ๋“ค์ด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์›€์ง์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ธฐํšŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ํ”ผํฌ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€์— ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋งŽ์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
George Arthur Kelly: Okay. That's helpful. And then second question for me. Back to the light rice. Ben, you sound confident about either what you're seeing or what -- sort of how you expect -- the reception you expect to get from that? Can you just give us a little more background on like why you have that level of confidence about the sort of plate opportunity? Maybe it's been tested at certain locations. And when do you expect it to fully roll out? So just, I guess, added context about that would be great.**George Arthur Kelly:** ๋„ค, ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ผ์ดํŠธ ๋ผ์ด์Šค๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์„œ์š”. ๋ฒค, ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜์‘์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ์‹œ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๊ทธ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ดํŠธ ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ์ด์œ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ ์„ค๋ช…์„ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ํŠน์ • ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๋ณด์…จ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ธ์ œ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ถœ์‹œ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”? ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean? Once you share the actual spoken content, I'll be happy to translate it following the guidelines you've outlined.
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] The biggest thing that gives us confidence is that this is something that Kura Japan has already been doing for years. And when they implemented this, they did see mix improvement, they did see ticket growth. We were able to implement this now because of the update to the new touch panel system, which gives us much more flexibility. And so just looking at the results from Japan gives us a lot of confidence. When I was speaking earlier, it was really just from my personal experience, I really loved it. I would strongly encourage you to try it, and I think you'll feel as confident -- you'll understand my confidence once you try it that there really is a very big opportunity there. We've already got this at about 50 of our restaurants. And I'm really happy that we have this. It's really something that our guests have been asking for, for a long time, whether it's explicitly in the guest surveys or just in the piles of untouched rice that we see in our restaurants. And so this is something that our guests have been asking for. And I think we've been doing a really good job in fiscal '25, just checking one issue after another in terms of points of friction for our guests.**Benjamin Porten:** ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ฟ ๋ผ ์ผ๋ณธ์—์„œ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ํ•ด์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ณธ์—์„œ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋ฏน์Šค ๊ฐœ์„ ๊ณผ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ„ฐ์น˜ํŒจ๋„ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์œผ๋กœ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ผ๋ณธ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋งŒ ๋ด๋„ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ํฐ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ •๋ง ์ œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ €๋Š” ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ผญ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด๋ณด์‹œ๊ธธ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํžˆ ๊ถŒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง์ ‘ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•ด๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์™œ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ์ •๋ง ํฐ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋А๋ผ์‹ค ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์•ฝ 50๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ์ด ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์š”์ฒญํ•ด์™”๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„ค๋ฌธ์กฐ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋ช…์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ์†๋Œ€์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋ฐฅ๋”๋ฏธ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ฃ . ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ •๋ง ์›ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ๋ถˆํŽธ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•ด๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific English management response from the earnings call Q&A that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] So just to give you some additional context in classic Kura speed style. We implemented this in our first restaurant about 10 days ago. We now have it in 50 restaurants. And so that speaks to our enthusiasm. But as you can imagine, we don't have a lot of data that we can share with you yet.**Benjamin Porten:** ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ „ํ˜•์ ์ธ ์ฟ ๋ผ์˜ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์†๋„๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ฝ 10์ผ ์ „์— ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋งค์žฅ์— ์ด๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” 50๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์—ด์ •์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ, ์•„์ง ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋Š” ๋งŽ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And our final question comes from the line of Matt Curtis with William Blair.**Operator:** ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ William Blair์˜ Matt Curtis๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Matthew James Curtis: I apologize if I missed this in your commentary, but could you just give us the average ticket breakdown in the quarter between price and mix?**Matthew James Curtis:** ์ฃ„์†กํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์„ค๋ช… ์ค‘์— ๋†“์ณค์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ‰๊ท  ๊ฐ๋‹จ๊ฐ€(average ticket) ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ๋ฏน์Šค๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean? Once you share the actual spoken content, I'll be happy to translate it following the guidelines you've outlined.
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] Price/mix cumulatively was positive 0.8%. Effective price was 4.3%. So mix was negative 3.5%.**Benjamin Porten:** ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ/๋ฏน์Šค๋Š” ๋ˆ„์  ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค 0.8%์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹คํšจ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ 4.3%์˜€๊ณ , ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋ฏน์Šค๋Š” ๋งˆ์ด๋„ˆ์Šค 3.5%์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided shows "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain the actual text that needs to be translated. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean?
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] And as we mentioned earlier, mix has been hovering around the negative high single digits for a very long time. We're really pleased to see it stabilize in this low to mid-single-digit range. With the initiatives that we have, like the light rice, the 25th plates, IP collaborations and giveaways, we're really excited to further drive that down. And we think there's even a possibility that we'll be able to see a positive number at some point.**Benjamin Porten:** ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋ฏน์Šค๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์˜ค๋žœ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋งˆ์ด๋„ˆ์Šค ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์—์„œ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ์— ๋‚ฎ์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ๋ฒ”์œ„์—์„œ ์•ˆ์ •ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ผ์ดํŠธ ๋ผ์ด์Šค, 25๋ฒˆ์งธ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ดํŠธ, IP ์ฝœ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝํ’ˆ ์ฆ์ •๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Matthew James Curtis: Okay. Great. And then I know the addition of light rice is really recent. But just to be clear, could you tell us what the per plate consumption trends were like throughout the quarter?**Matthew James Curtis:** ๋„ค, ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ผ์ดํŠธ ๋ผ์ด์Šค ์ถ”๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง ์ตœ๊ทผ์˜ ์ผ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์นœ 1์ธ๋‹น ์†Œ๋น„๋Ÿ‰ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋• ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
Hajime Uba: [Foreign Language]**Hajime Uba:** I notice that the content you've provided is marked as "[Foreign Language]" but doesn't contain any actual text to translate. Could you please provide the specific management response from the earnings call Q&A session that you'd like me to translate into Korean? Once you share the actual spoken content, I'll be happy to translate it following the guidelines you've outlined.
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development [Interpreted] So this was implemented after Q3, and so it wouldn't have any -- had any impact on the plate per person consumption in the prior quarter.**Benjamin Porten:** ์ด๋Š” 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ดํ›„์— ์‹œํ–‰๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฏ€๋กœ ์ด์ „ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ 1์ธ๋‹น ์ ‘์‹œ ์†Œ๋น„๋Ÿ‰์—๋Š” ์ „ํ˜€ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Matthew James Curtis: Yes, but I meant what were the actual per plate consumption trends during the quarter relative to, say, the second quarter.**Matthew James Curtis:** ๋„ค, ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์€ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ์˜ ์‹ค์ œ 1์ธ๋‹น ์†Œ๋น„ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋– ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Benjamin Porten: SVP of Investor Relations & System Development So for the last several years, it's been approximately 6 per person.**Benjamin Porten:** ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ 1์ธ๋‹น ์•ฝ 6๊ฐœ ์ •๋„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Thank you. With that, this does conclude today's teleconference. We thank you for your participation. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Have a wonderful day.**Operator:** ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ „ํ™”ํšŒ์˜๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์ „ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋Š์œผ์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

Here's a summary of the key points from the earnings call in Korean:

โ€ข ์‹ค์  ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค
- 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์ด ์–‘ํ˜ธํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, FY25 ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ 2.81์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •
- 5์›”๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ๋„ ๊ฐœ์„ 
- ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘ ๋ ˆ๋ฒจ ๋งˆ์ง„์€ ํ˜„์žฌ 17-18% ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๋‚˜ FY26์—๋Š” 20% ์ด์ƒ ํšŒ๋ณต ๋ชฉํ‘œ

โ€ข ์ฃผ์š” ์ „๋žต์  ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ
- ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋„์ž…์ด ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋Œ€ํญ ๊ฐ์†Œ
- FY26์—๋Š” IP ์ฝœ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์—ฐ์ค‘ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€
- Light Rice ์˜ต์…˜ ๋„์ž…์œผ๋กœ ์›๊ฐ€ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ๋‹จ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์Šน ๊ธฐ๋Œ€

โ€ข ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ์š”์ธ
- ์ผ๋ณธ๋ฐœ ๊ด€์„ธ ์ธ์ƒ ์šฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์™€์˜ ํ˜‘์ƒ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์˜ํ–ฅ ์ตœ์†Œํ™” ๊ณ„ํš
- ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„ ์ƒ์Šน ์••๋ฐ•์€ ์ง€์†๋˜๋‚˜ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ค‘์ €๋‹จ์œ„ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ
- ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ถœ์ ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์นด๋‹ˆ๋ฐœ๋ผ์ด์ œ์ด์…˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ์•ฝ 4% ์ˆ˜์ค€ ์ง€์† ์ „๋ง

์ด ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ์ „๋ฌธ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ๊ด€์ ์ด๊ณ  ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.