“I think our basket of goods means we still have confidence in that kind of low to mid-single-digit range.”

In context

“in areas like wages and food and paper costs. So I think as you've heard, both Chris and I talk about, I mean we have no change in our view that we're going to be able to drive margin accretion and margin growth over time as we drive that top line growth. But obviously, we continue to operate in an environment where sales have been a little bit more subdued, and inflation has been a little higher than what I'll call kind of the historic norm. I think on food and paper in the U.S. We've said this year, we expect kind of our basket of food and paper inflation to be in the low to mid-single-digit range for the year. Obviously, beef inflation is up. a fair bit. I think the strength of our supply chain means our beef costs are, I think, certainly up less than most. They're still elevated, but I think our basket of goods means we still have confidence in that kind of low to mid-single-digit range. I mean, obviously, what we're trying to focus on, as we've talked a fair bit about today is how do we make sure we've got that baseline momentum, obviously, value and affordability across all parts of the menu is a really important component of that. And so that's -- I think what we're focused on is kind of getting that stronger top line and growth in place as we look forward. And as we said earlier, certainly, we've had a decent start to Q4, and I think we're getting through things like our EVM relaunch, some of those may be missing components back firmly in place. Dexter Congbalay: That concludes the call today. Thanks for joining us. If you have any follow-up questions or would like to have a meeting, please send me an email, and we'll do so. Thanks again, and have a good day. Operator”