And by and large, there’s still less pressure on the protein side of that business. And so, I think we still feel good that we will continue to show improvement year-over-year on the margins on the prepared food side of the business as the year progresses.
Operator: Thank you. One moment please for our next question. Our next question will come from Kelly Bania of BMO Capital Markets. Your line is open.
Kelly Bania: Good morning. Thanks for taking our questions.
Darren Rebelez: Good morning, Kelly.
Kelly Bania: Good morning. I wanted to just circle back to the inside comps in August. Sounds like maybe a little bit of a deceleration there, but can you give color on what you’re seeing with traffic, ticket, grocery, prepared food? Or is this just maybe a little bit of cycling off this fountain drink promotion that was done over the summer? Or just anything that we should think about that’s impacting kind of the trend near term?
Darren Rebelez: Yeah, Kelly, we still saw — well, first, I’d say we had good traffic throughout the quarter. We were up a little over 1% in actual foot traffic into the store. And we saw that trend continue into August. So — and we were running that fountain promotion at the same time throughout August. So really nothing there. I mean, it is really a cycling issue more than the deceleration issue, in my opinion. In the two-year comps, I think, we’re pretty consistent with where we had been in the first quarter. So — and again, we’ve got some higher comps coming into September as well. So I don’t — when we cycle over those higher comps, I start to focus a little bit more on the two-year stack and to make sure that we’re still maintaining that momentum there. And so, so far, that’s what we’ve seen. And so, I don’t have any concerns about the absolute number being a little bit lower than where we were in the first quarter.
Steve Bramlage: Yeah. I think, Kelly, just for reference, our inside number in the prior year was almost 8%. So, we’re cycling that. And August would have been indicative of that. And so, it’s really just what are you lapping in the prior year more than anything.
Kelly Bania: Great. That’s very helpful. I was also just wondering if you can talk about with some of these new prepared food innovation, if you’re able to use your data, your loyalty to analyze if you’re getting incremental customers that you weren’t maybe reaching before, or if you’re simply cannibalizing kind of prior products, or maybe what your early read is on how this innovation is reaching your customer base?
Darren Rebelez: Yeah. So far, we’ve been really happy with the performance on the prepared food side. And we think about, on the thin crust pizza in particular, we think about half of that has truly been incremental to the business. And what some of our loyalty data would suggest is that about 16% of those sales were by new buyers into the pizza category. So, in other words, people that weren’t buying pizza from us before, about 12% were new guests entirely. And so that’s been really helpful. And that was really our hypothesis going into the thin crust was that there are certain guests that that’s all they want. And that’s going to be a veto vote in a family if we don’t have that offer. And so far, that’s all played out. And the rewards data would validate that.
Operator: Thank you. One moment please for our next question. Our next question will come from Bobby Griffin of Raymond James. Your line is open.
Bobby Griffin: Good morning, everybody. Thanks for taking my questions.
Darren Rebelez: Good morning.
Steve Bramlage: Good morning.
