“We also expect in the U.S. that we'll see a notable step-up in comp sales growth for those reasons in Q4 and expect -- I think our comp sales growth on a 2-year stack base will accelerate modestly from the 2.7% that we saw in Q3 on a 2-year basis.”

In context

“a great menu news quarter, you've got to get all 3 of those things to come together. And I think we feel we're doing a better job of really strong execution across the business. I think a little specifically maybe to get into the segments. I think in the U.S., we actually expect our comp sales growth will accelerate in Q4 versus the 2.4% that we delivered in Q3. And there's some obvious reasons for that. Obviously, we're lapping the food safety incident in last year's Q4. We've had a decent start to the quarter based on MONOPOLY running in October, as you heard us talk about in our upfront remarks. And we feel we've got a really good quarter of activity, obviously, MONOPOLY in October. And then as you heard Chris talk about the kind of rehit of our EVM $5 and $8 price points in November. We also expect in the U.S. that we'll see a notable step-up in comp sales growth for those reasons in Q4 and expect -- I think our comp sales growth on a 2-year stack base will accelerate modestly from the 2.7% that we saw in Q3 on a 2-year basis. On the international segments, I would say, I think we expect operating conditions across our top markets in Q4 will be pretty similar to what we've seen in the last couple of quarters. I think we believe that our Q4 comp sales in each of our international segments may decelerate sequentially, but that's largely a reflection of the lapping of more difficult prior year comparisons. And so on a 2-year stack basis, we expect Q4 comp sales growth for both segments will accelerate meaningfully and sequentially. So that would be a bit of a texture, I think, on the looking forward. I mean I think the external conditions remain challenging, but I think what we've really done, and you've heard us talk pretty relentlessly about this, just on value and affordability and then getting the power of gre”