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Same-store sales and customer traffic results were mixed; Restaurant operators somewhat more optimistic about sales growth and the economy
?The Restaurant Performance Index gain was driven by stronger same-store sales results in March, with comparisons aided by the Easter holiday occurring during the month,? said Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of the Research and Knowledge Group for the Association.? ?In addition, restaurant operators are somewhat more confident in the economy and a majority plan to make a capital expenditure in the next six months.?
The Current Situation Index, which measures current trends in four industry indicators (same-store sales, traffic, labor and capital expenditures), stood at 99.8 in March ? up 1.5 percent from February?s level.? Although restaurant operators reported net positive same-store sales results in March, softness in the customer traffic and labor indicators outweighed the performance, which resulted in an overall Current Situation Index reading below 100 for the seventh consecutive month.
After reporting a same-store sales decline for the first time in 21 months, restaurant operators bounced back in March with a modest net gain.? Forty-four percent of restaurant operators reported a same-store sales gain between March 2012 and March 2013, while 37 percent of operators reported lower sales.? In February, only 33 percent of operators reported higher same-store sales, while 48 percent reported a sales decline.
While overall sales were positive in March, restaurant operators reported a net decline in customer traffic for the fourth consecutive month.? Thirty-four percent of restaurant operators reported higher customer traffic levels between March 2012 and March 2013, while 42 percent of operators said their traffic declined.? In February, 24 percent of operators reported an increase in customer traffic, while 53 percent reported lower traffic levels.
Despite the mixed sales and traffic results, restaurant operators reported an increase in capital spending activity.? Fifty-one percent of operators saying they made a capital expenditure for equipment, expansion or remodeling during the last three months, up from 48 percent who reported similarly last month.
The Expectations Index, which measures restaurant operators? six-month outlook for four industry indicators (same-store sales, employees, capital expenditures and business conditions), stood at 101.4 in March ? unchanged from February?s level.? Each of the four expectations indicators stood above 100 for the third consecutive month, which suggests restaurant operators are optimistic about business conditions in the coming months.
Restaurant operators remain generally optimistic that their sales will improve in the months ahead.? Forty-four percent of restaurant operators expect to have higher sales in six months (compared to the same period in the previous year), up slightly from 41 percent last month.? Meanwhile, 15 percent of restaurant operators expect their sales volume in six months to be lower than it was during the same period in the previous year, essentially unchanged from 14 percent last month.
Restaurant operators are somewhat more bullish that the economy will improve in the coming months.? Thirty-two percent of restaurant operators said they expect economic conditions to improve in six months, up from 25 percent last month and the highest level in 10 months.? However, 20 percent of operators said they expect economic conditions to worsen in the next six months, unchanged from the previous two months.
A majority of restaurant operators have plans for capital spending in the months ahead.? Fifty-five percent of restaurant operators plan to make a capital expenditure for equipment, expansion or remodeling in the next six months, down slightly from 57 percent who reported similarly last month.
The RPI is based on the responses to the National Restaurant Association?s Restaurant Industry Tracking Survey, which is fielded monthly among restaurant operators nationwide on a variety of indicators including sales, traffic, labor and capital expenditures. The full report is available online at Restaurant.org/RPI.
The RPI is released on the last business day of each month, and a more detailed data and analysis can be found on Restaurant TrendMapper, the Association?s subscription-based web site that provides detailed analysis of restaurant industry trends.
Founded in 1919, the National Restaurant Association is the leading business association for the restaurant industry, which comprises 980,000 restaurant and foodservice outlets and a workforce of more than 13 million employees. We represent the industry in Washington, D.C., and advocate on its behalf. We operate the industry?s largest trade show (NRA Show?May 18-21, 2013, in Chicago); leading food safety training and certification program (ServSafe); unique career-building high school program (the NRAEF?s?ProStart); as well as the?Kids LiveWell?program promoting healthful kids? menu options. For more information, visit?Restaurant.org?and find us on Twitter?@WeRRestaurants, Facebook?and?YouTube.
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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? Syrian state TV and residents of Damascus say a powerful explosion has hit the country's capital.
The nature of Tuesday's explosion in the heart of Damascus was not immediately clear. Resident say they heard a powerful blast and saw thick, black smoke billowing from behind a group of buildings.
Gunfire was heard in the area immediately after the Tuesday morning blast.
Syrian TV says the explosion occurred in the central district of Marjeh, although the target was not immediately clear.
The blast comes a day after Syria's prime minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in the heavily protected area of Damascus.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-tv-explosion-damascus-causes-casualties-085518378.html
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Patricia East is a developmental psychologist who began her career working at an OB-GYN clinic in California. Thursday mornings at the clinic were reserved for pregnant teens, and when East arrived the waiting room would be packed with them, chair after chair of pregnant adolescents.
It was in this waiting room, East explains, that she discovered her life's work ? an accidental discovery that emerged from the small talk that staff at the clinic had with their young clients as they walked them back for checkups.
"The nurses and the doctors there would bring a teen back for her prenatal visit and they would say, 'Hey! Aren't you Maria's younger sister?' And the young woman would say, 'Yeah, I am!' And they would say to another patient, 'You know, haven't I seen you before?' And she would say, 'Yes, I was here for my older sister when she was pregnant.' "
Over and over East heard variations of this conversation, until it came to the point that when she saw a younger sibling sitting next to her sister in the waiting room an involuntary thought flashed across her mind.
"It's almost as if you're watching the younger sister get pregnant," she says.
And so East decided to do a study. She wanted to figure out if having an older sister who got pregnant as a teen really did affect the likelihood that the younger sibling would find herself in the same position. She identified a large number of sister pairs ? all pairs came from roughly the same socioeconomic and life circumstances. And by comparing them, she found that a pregnancy in an older sister did often seem to change the trajectory of the younger sibling.
"The younger sisters are five times more likely to get pregnant as other young women who have an older sister who hasn't been pregnant."
In the aftermath of the bombings in Boston many of us have been thinking a lot about siblings ? particularly how older siblings can shape the lives of younger siblings. But until pretty recently, the role siblings play in determining the trajectory of each other's lives hasn't been a particularly hot topic in psychological research. Psychologists, very understandably, have focused on the influences they see as more important ? such as parents and peers and genetics.
But in the past decade that's been changing a bit. Psychologists interested in how siblings affect one another are taking a new look at all kinds of behavior, particularly anti-social behavior.
Richard Rende, a professor of psychiatry at Brown University, is one of the people doing this work, and he says that some of the new findings really challenge the idea that parents are the most important influence on children.
Consider, for example, the research that looks at how much a parent who smokes influences his child to smoke, versus the degree to which an older sibling who smokes influences a younger sibling.
"Both can have an effect, but in a lot of studies they've found that the effect 'older sibling smoking' has is greater than the effect that 'parental smoking' has," Rende says.
It's the opposite of what many people assumed, he says. Older siblings are more influential.
Rende says you can see this influence of big brothers and sisters in all kinds of families ? rich, middle class and poor. But their power is really magnified in the particular subset of families he studies: families that are psychologically and economically unstable. In those families the power of the older sibling is much greater because parents aren't around as much, and the siblings tend to spend a lot of time together.
As part of his research, Rende gives sibling pairs electronic devices like cellphones that, every half hour, prompt both siblings to report what they're doing. Through such reports you can actually see each one ghosting the other's behavior, he says.
"When one sibling is smoking ? in real time [we see] they're having a cigarette, and the other sibling is very likely to report smoking at the same time."
In fact, when one sibling is a smoker, the other is 25 percent more likely to smoke. With drinking the risk is even higher; a person is 36 percent more likely to drink if a sibling does.
Rende, by the way, believes that the reverse is also true. Good behavior in older siblings can be as contagious as bad. It just seems that ? particularly when families are struggling ? the fate of the kids is more tethered to their siblings than we originally thought. For good and, apparently, for bad.
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Ah, "Dancing With the Stars": Television's elegant respite from the more puerile reality TV options. It's the prime-time place for sweeping dances, sequined gowns, seasoned pros and ... potty talk?
That's right! On Monday night's episode of the ballroom bash, the judges swapped their usual classy comments (well, at least not-so-crass comments) for some really uncultured criticism.
The restroom-worthy remarks kicked off right after Jacoby Jones delivered the very first Latin Night dance -- a sensible salsa.
The Ravens wide receiver hit the floor with slightly poor posture thanks to his towering height, but had great hip motion and smooth turns.
The judges loved the dance, giving it a total of 27 points. But one of them had an unfortunate way with words.
"It's like you can fart the salsa!" Carrie Ann Inaba raved. "I mean, it's so in your body. That's all I can think of: 'Man, that guy's farting salsa.' ... The salsa doesn't need that much technique; it needs flava. So you had the right flavor fart."
Carrie Ann actually managed to leave always-on host Tom Bergeron speechless with that critique.
But she wasn't the only judge to go lavatory-low when looking for a way to sum up the dance-floor action.
After "Bachelor" Sean Lowe took the stage for a rumba that packed more rear action than romance, Bruno Tonioli could think of only one thing.
"Sometimes your bum stuck out," Bruno remarked. "It looked like you were going to the toilet."
Ouch! And ick!
Despite that review, Bruno enjoyed the dance he dubbed "50 Shades of Sean," and like his fellow panelists, gave it an 8.
From there on, the judges seemed to find more helpful -- or maybe just less graphic -- ways to describe the routines.
Related: 'Dancing With Stars' destiny: Victor Ortiz knew he would be eliminated
For instance, Len said Kellie Pickler's 29-point samba had "the how of the technique and the wow of performance."
And Aly Raisman's 29-point dance? Why, her hip-shaking salsa was an "uplifting tutti-frutti cocktail of delicious flavors," according to Bruno -- far better than the flavor Carrie Ann went on about earlier.
Zendaya impressed the panel, as she usually does, with a 27-point flamenco-infused paso doble that had Bruno comparing her looks to an angel and her steps to a fury.
Len even sort of liked Ingo Rademacher's rumba, despite the soap star's stuttered steps.
"This is a really difficult dance," he said. "Overall, I thought it was good, not great."
Andy Dick's rumba earned a round of constructive criticism too -- though none of it was particularly kind.
Len thought it was "more erratic than erotic," and Carrie Ann urged the struggling fan favorite to show some consistency. As for Bruno, he didn't resort to the toilet talk again, but he still flushed the comedian's good mood right down the drain.
"You've taken an unforgettable, classic dance," Bruno began, referring to the Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse number from "Singing in the Rain" that inspired Andy's effort. "Now I wish I could forget it."
The dance earned Andy only 17 points -- a score he failed to improve in the dance-off rounds that closed the show.
Related: 'Dancing With the Stars' to feature dancer injured in Boston bombings
In a cha-cha battle, Aly earned three extra points by beating Andy. The rumba round saw Ingo best Sean for three more points of his own. And when Zendaya and Jacoby faced off for the jive, the Disney star took the bonus.
Kellie didn't even have to participate in the dance-offs. With the highest accumulated score in the competition so far, she won a rare treat -- immunity.
See how the others fare when viewer votes are added to the mix on Tuesday night's results show.
What did you think of the judges' comments on Monday night? Share your thoughts on our Facebook page.
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/dancing-stars-judges-take-ballroom-bathroom-6C9674691
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