“and while we're not providing specific numbers around February, our trends have improved from January levels and our guidance reflects this.”

In context

“cal landscape and the potential impact of system wide sales or costs. For the first quarter, we guide total revenue of $288.4 million to $292.8 million with $9.4 million to $9.8 million of licensing revenue, approximately four company operated openings, approximately two licensed Shack openings, and for Same Shack sales to be up low-single digits year-over-year. January Same Shack sales were flat with an approximate low-single digit headwind from unfavorable weather, as well as pressures from comparing over a particularly strong January 2023, average weekly sales that had a large benefit from a high number of Shacks that we opened in the fourth quarter of 2022. Outside of weather impacted weeks though, we saw that the underlying strength of our fourth quarter trends continued into January and while we're not providing specific numbers around February, our trends have improved from January levels and our guidance reflects this. As we execute on our 2024 strategic plan, we are guiding to first quarter Shack level operating profit margin of 19% to 19.5%, representing approximately 70 basis points to 120 basis points improvement year-over-year. In the first quarter, we are planning for low-single digit year-over-year inflation in food and paper costs, with pressures led by uncertainty in beef pricing, the largest part of our basket. For 2024, we are guiding total revenue of $1.21 billion to $1.25 billion, growing about 11% to 15% year-over-year with approximately 40 company operated and 40 license openings, both of which are back end weighted, and Same Shack sales to grow by low-single digits with low-single digit realized price. Our pricing plans for this year are modest and consistent with our pre-COVID pricing p”