BUCA, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter 2006 Buca di Beppo Comparable Restaurant Sales Increased 4.0%.MINNEAPOLIS -- BUCA BUCA Blue Cross, United, Cigna, Aetna (Healthcare providers) BUCA Constructionman Apprentice, Builder Striker (Naval Rating) , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BUCA) today announced that Buca di Beppo Buca di Beppo is an American restaurant chain specializing in immigrant Southern Italian food. The name roughly translates as "Joe's Basement" (Beppo is slang for Joe in Southern Italy and Buca means basement (literally it means "hole") in Italian). comparable restaurant sales increased 4.0% for the fourth quarter of 2006 as compared to the same period last year. The increase reflects the ninth consecutive quarter of positive comparable restaurant sales for the Buca di Beppo restaurants. For 2006, comparable restaurant sales increased 3.8% as compared to the same period in the prior year. The company's fiscal year 2006 contained 53 weeks as compared to its usual 52 weeks. For purposes of providing comparable results, the company's reported comparable sales increases for the fourth quarter and for the full fiscal year of 2006 exclude the results for the 53rd week of the fiscal year. Comparable restaurant sales are for the company's Buca di Beppo restaurants only, as Vinny T's of Boston was classified as discontinued operations Discontinued operations Divisions of a business that have been sold or written off and that no longer are maintained by the business. . Vinny T's of Boston was sold in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006. About the Company: BUCA, Inc. owns and operates 93 highly acclaimed family style Italian restaurants under the name Buca di Beppo in 23 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . |
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