Ruby Tuesday Sales up 15 Percent
by August 14, 2006 12:00 am 77 views
Sales at Ruby Tuesday in Bentonville jumped by 15.7 percent for the first six months of the year, according to the city’s restaurant tax records.
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Ruby Tuesday had $832,300 in sales for the first half of this year compared with $719,600 for the same period of 2005, putting it at the No. 4 spot in the top 10 Bentonville restaurant list.
Lin’s Garden Chinese Restaurant and Shogun Steak House of Japan were the only locally owned restaurants on the list. Lin’s had $782,100 in food sales, up 16.2 percent from $673,053 last year. But Lin’s opened in February of 2005, making the percentage change slightly skewed.
Two McDonald’s restaurants took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots. McDonald’s on Walton Boulevard had $1.4 million in sales, compared to $1.3 million last year, a 6.9 percent increase. The NASCAR McDonald’s had a slight decrease in sales this year, down 0.1 percent from $1,194,700 last year to $1,194,100 for the first six months this year.
Shogun Steak House of Japan and Pizza Hut also saw sales dip. Shogun had $945,700 in sales, down 4.7 percent from $992,800 last year. But it was still enough to land the restaurant in the No. 3 spot again for the first half of the year. Pizza Hut had the biggest decrease in sales, down 7.1 percent from $731,215 last year to $679,467, putting it at the No. 10 spot.
Sonic Drive-In on 14th Street, Taco Bell on Walton Boulevard and Panera Bread Co. had increases in sales, coming in at No. 5, No. 7 and No. 8, respectively. Sonic had $827,100 in sales, a 4.9 percent increase. Taco Bell had $741,781, a 3.1 percent increase over $719,319 last year. Panera had a 0.6 percent increase to $717,919.
Buffalo Wild Wings, in its first full year of operation, came in at No. 9 with $682,400. The restaurant opened in May last year.