“Below the operating line, we're projecting our full year interest expense to increase by about 4% compared to 2024.”

In context

“ssures in some markets, most notably in Europe, have become more challenging. Nonetheless, we continue to target a full year adjusted operating margin in the mid- to high 40% range and above the 46.3% adjusted operating margin in 2024. This includes the expected impact from tariffs that are currently in place. However, we're adjusting our full year margin target for company-operated restaurants to be around the 14.8% that we delivered in 2024, which we had previously targeted to increase slightly. We're still targeting G&A as a percentage of system-wide sales to be about 2.2% for the full year. We continue to remain disciplined with investments in our strategic growth priorities, including digital, technology and our transformation efforts led by our global business services organization. Below the operating line, we're projecting our full year interest expense to increase by about 4% compared to 2024. That's at the low end of our previous estimate of 4% to 6%, largely due to lower-than-expected increases in average interest rates. We continue to target a full year effective tax rate of 20% to 22% with some quarterly volatility. We currently estimate the tailwind from the impact of foreign currency translation on adjusted earnings per share to be about $0.15 based on current exchange rates. That's up from our previous estimate of about a $0.05 tailwind. As always, our updated estimate is directional guidance only as rates will likely change as the year progresses. Finally, we remain on pace to open approximately 2,200 restaurants globally this year and continue to target about 1/4 of these openings to be in our U.S. and IOM segments. We expect to open more than 1,600 restaurants in our”