Joe Taylor: Chris, I was just going to add too, remember that this is not — this has not been a one-time event rolling out some of these changes. We actually started a lot of the discount removal back in the first quarter. That really started coming to together in kind of the August kind of timeframe. And we also then reintroduced shortly after that at the beginning of September, the new bar menu, which also took discounting out of that piece of the equation. So this has been kind of a rolling effort over the course of really the first half of the fiscal year. So many of those moves have actually been in place, and we’ve been watching very closely over the course of three, four months. And we can see the impact particularly, and when you look at something like the bar and the discounting that came out of that, you’re seeing a really nice response and improvement on the bar side of the equation that it’s exceeding our planned expectations there.
So you’re exactly right. You have to continue to watch for the leg effect of that, but I think a lot of the — these moves are starting to age themselves very well. And we’re not seeing any of the concerning dislocation that you might otherwise be worried about.
Chris O’Cull: Could you help level set our expectations for what impact the return to TV advertising could have on traffic? I’m just wondering if was fiscal 2Q expecting to be or do you expect it to be the worst in terms of traffic performance and then sequentially improve from there?
Kevin Hochman: Well, I don’t think we want to give you guidance on what we expect from the advertising. What I can share with you is it’ll be about abundant value at a sharp price point. We are going to have sufficient weights that we believe it will meaningfully move the business. But I can’t share with you how long that advertising will be on and when will it start for competitive reasons. But I hope either at the next earnings call or at the June investors meeting to share all of that detail with you.
Operator: Your next question for today is coming from David Palmer with Evercore ISI.
David Palmer: Thanks. Question on dining room traffic. Could you talk about what your dining room traffic trend was year-over-year and how those traffic levels compare to 2019? And just generally speaking, how you think dining room traffic will trend the rest of the year?
Joe Taylor: Yes. We have actually — we’re actually seeing the dining room business obviously continue to grow and that’s thinking through the entire comp dynamic, traffic is down a little bit relative to that pre-pandemic dining room. Obviously, when you eliminate some of the discounting that that impacts obviously your largest piece of the equation, which would be the dining rooms. And particularly when you think about some of the stuff we’ve done on bar. But it’s not, again the business is in totality is moving in the right direction. So I think again, similar to what we talk about in the overall business, the trade within the dining room standpoint is — has been very favorable. Kevin kind of walked through some of the things we see on the Three for Me platform.
A lot of that takes place obviously within the dining rooms the reinvigoration of the margarita program. Those kinds of things obviously are going to skew more to the dining room side. So similar give up some traffic, but gain more than adequate offset on the price and mix side of the equation.
