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First Watch Restaurant Group Priced, Nasdaq: FWRG

Operates daytime casual-dining restaurants in the US.

Industry: Consumer Discretionary

First Day Return: +22.9%

Industry: Consumer Discretionary

We are First Watch - an award-winning daytime restaurant concept serving made-to-order breakfast, brunch and lunch using fresh ingredients. Our unique one-shift and one-menu approach, coupled with our commitment to our employees and customers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic allowed us to retain and attract employees and reopen our restaurants with accelerating operating momentum in the second half of 2020 and into 2021, recording same-restaurant sales growth of 16.3% in the second fiscal quarter ended June 27, 2021 relative to the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2019. Importantly, our same-restaurant traffic growth in the second fiscal quarter of 2021 was ahead of the comparable quarter in 2019 by 1.0%. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we invested in supplemental compensation and expanded health benefits for our people while at the same time we accelerated strategic investments in our business and continued to expand our footprint, opening 42 and 18 System-wide NROs in fiscal 2020 and during the twenty-six weeks ended June 27, 2021, respectively. As of June 27, 2021, we had 423 System-wide restaurants across 28 states, 335 of our restaurants were company-owned and 88 were operated by our franchisees.
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