Jun 23, 2021 / 06:40PM GMT
Andy Barish - Jefferies LLC - Analyst
Good afternoon, everyone. It's Andy Barish, and we're very pleased to have Noodles & Company as our next fireside chat in the restaurant category. Dave Boennighausen is the CEO, and Carl Lukach is the CFO.
Questions and Answers:
Andy Barish - Jefferies LLC - AnalystAnd with that, Dave, why don't you talk us through the really strong recovery the brand has had? And it seemed like a lot of the work you had done over the last few years really came to fruition, unfortunately during a pandemic. But what accelerated and surprised you in a positive way?
Dave Boennighausen - Noodles & Company - CEO
Yes -- no, I appreciate that, Andy. And ultimately, we think we're going to look back at COVID as kind of the match that lit the fire in terms of from a macro perspective, bringing consumer trends such as convenience, delivery, variety, digital -- all of that even more so in the forefront.
But even more so for us, we feel like COVID in 2020 ultimately led us to this