Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Amy Greene with Avondale Partners.
Amy Greene - Avondale Partners
Good morning guys, just a couple of quick questions. Did you see any seasonality during the quarter? Did they get better as you moved through, anything you can comment about that, across the concept?
Gregory Burns`
Amy, not really from a seasonality side, I would say that what we're seeing right now is a pattern of a lot of volatility, up and down, sometimes during the week and weekends, very affected by events that are out there. Obviously, we were seeing some affect in New England with the Red Sox, which up sided, that the Red Sox does so arguments so on and so on at New England. But it does affect sales up there, but, not really at this point.
Amy Greene - Avondale Partners
Are you seeing any material differences during the day as lunch? Is lunch weaker or has, it stayed pretty constant?
Gregory Burns
I would say that we're consistent in terms of this lunch versus dinner. Again, I think depending on where some special events fall, you may see a slower lunch these days, after a big weekend or a holiday period, but it's pretty consistent. One thing we're seeing is to [Go], increases into [Go] sales. I think that kind of reflects peoples watching their expenditures, and also some of the initiatives that we’ve done to focus on to [Go] sales of both concepts.
Amy Greene - Avondale Partners
Then last question on the "Project RevO’lution". Has the Board yet approved any additional O'Charley's units or is that something they still are waiting to revisit and if you have you seen, are you getting any closer to hitting some of those cost targets and everything that we’ve talked about in previous quarters?
Gregory Burn
Well first of, as we’ve said before Amy, as we go along with RevO’s and "Dressed To the Nines" that we’ve been pleased with the performance that means that they’re achieving the hurdles that we have set out for both concepts; roll outs of those projects. Having said that, we are tweaking both of those, and as we illustrated or discussed in this mornings call that we’re completing a number of those between now and the end of the year.
Also, my comment was that we expect a more aggressive roll out in 2008, but we haven’t finalized that capital outlay with the Board of Directors as we do every year as a part of our ongoing process for budget approval, but I’d certainly anticipate that you’ll hear a more detailed plan on our more aggressive roll out for 2008. Keep in mind also that the "Dressed To the Nines" still has six to nine months advance on the "Project RevO’lution" process. And so our promise in the past about that have not been an indication of lack of approval or excitement about Project RevO’s, is more of a timing issue.
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