Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Robert Brown - Craig-Hallum Capital.
Robert Brown - Craig-Hallum Capital
Could you just give a little more color on your guidance, what comp expectation do you have for Q3 and what are the trends you've seen thus far in the quarter?
Mark S. Robinow
Our guidance for Q3 anticipates same store sales down about 9% as we have seen here in this quarter. So basically with what we're seeing now, and frankly, in July we were seeing same store sales trend a little worse than what we saw in our second quarter and down low double digits at this point.
Robert Brown - Craig-Hallum Capital
Could you just give me some information on the menu redesign? How much of that margin helped to impact Q2? Did you get a full quarter's worth of impact there or do you think you'll see more of that in Q3?
Mark L. Bartholomay
We'll see more of that in Q3. That menu didn't come out until June and it encompasses about 8 or 10 new items and then just the reformatting of a lot of side dishes and stuff for presentation and value purposes.
So we started to see, we saw a couple of weeks of the new items but I'm not sure that that's going to make a huge impact by itself. It's more an intermediate to long term thing to get to see that we're making changes on a regular basis.
But the new menu items have been received very well.
Robert Brown - Craig-Hallum Capital
Could you just give an update on your thoughts on capex for the year, considering you're doing remodeling. Is that going to increase capex or is that part of your original plan and what are your thoughts for the year?
Mark S. Robinow
We're trending towards between $11.0 million and $12.0 million in total capex for the year and that would be gross, before tenant improvement allowances. So we've got basically remodel costs built into that number for the restaurants that we know we are going to be remodeling this year.
Robert Brown - Craig-Hallum Capital
And how many do you plan to remodel this year?
Mark S. Robinow
Three.
Operator
Your next question comes from Brad Ludington - KeyBanc Capital Markets.
Brad Ludington - KeyBanc Capital Markets
I wanted to start off with the charges, the $200,000 charge for the write-down on the architecture and other costs, is that a non-cash charge? As a write-down?
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