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Buffets, Inc. Reports Same Store Sales Trends and Announces Conference Call to Discuss Third Quarter Results.


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EAGAN, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 2004

Buffets, Inc. ("Buffets") reported a same store sales Same Store Sales

A statistic used in retail industry analysis. It compares sales of stores that have been open for a year or more.

Notes:
This statistic allows investors to determine what portion of new sales has come from sales growth and what portion from the opening of
 increase of 4.4% for the third quarter of its 2004 fiscal year (the sixteen-week period ended April 7, 2004) as compared to the comparable period in the prior year.

Buffets also announced that it would be conducting a conference call to discuss operating results for the first three quarters of its fiscal year (the 40 weeks ended April 7, 2004) on May 12, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. (Eastern). You may access this call starting at 10:45 a.m. (Eastern). The conference phone number will be 1-888-228-7864 and the conference ID number will be 6862944. The conference call leader will be Kerry Kramp, Chief Executive Officer, of Buffets.

In consideration of your fellow participants, Buffets requests that cellular phones not be used. The conference call will be recorded and available for playback Playback could mean:
  • The re-playing of recorded media.
  • Gapless playback, the seamless playback of digital audio formats (i. e. ipods, mp3 players)
  • Playback singer, a practice in Bollywood musicals.
 through Friday, May 21, 2004 at 6:00 p.m. (Eastern). Playback can be reached by dialing 1-800-642-1687 and requesting conference ID number 6862944.

Buffets currently operates 361 restaurants in 35 states comprised of 353 buffet A buffet is a meal serving system where patrons serve themselves. It is a popular method of feeding large numbers of people with minimal staff. The term is also used to describe a sideboard, an antique form of furniture which was sometimes used to offer the dishes of a buffet meal  restaurants and eight Tahoe Joe's Famous Steakhouse(R) restaurants. The buffet restaurants are principally operated under the Old Country Buffet Old Country Buffet is a buffet-style, sit-down restaurant chain headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota with locations throughout the United States. Menu Items
Old Country Buffet restaurants feature a wide spread of menu items, in the following categories:
(R) or HomeTown Buffet HomeTown Buffet is a buffet-style, sit-down restaurant chain headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota with locations throughout the United States.

Its wide selection of food include pizza, hot dogs, hot wings, sliced ham among many others.
(R) brands. Buffets also franchises 20 buffet restaurants in seven states.
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