Texas Roadhouse doing well

Even with the economy they seen to have a good outlook....

Shares rose 49 cents, or 5.2 percent, to $9.76 in afternoon trading.

The rise follows a presentation by the company at the Wachovia Securities 18th Annual Nantucket Equity Conference on Tuesday.

In presentation slides posted on the company's Web site for the conference, Texas Roadhouse affirmed its outlook for the year, saying it expects earnings per share to grow between 5 percent and 25 percent. That implies profit between 54 cents and 59 cents per share. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expect profit of 57 cents per share, on average.

The Louisville, Ky., company also said it has locked in prices for the rest of its beef needs for 2008, meaning price contracts now cover 100 percent of the company's beef purchases for the year. Beef represents 46 percent of the company's cost of sales.

Are you just trying to piss people off...

I have to admit that after my father won a gift certificate to Texas Roadhouse and gave it to me, I went there and had a pretty good grub down. The green beans stood out (lots of slow cooked, savory bacon flavor) and the steak was prepared nicely. But if there ever was a place that tries too hard it's Texas Roadhouse. It's just too hokey with the peanuts, the yee-hawin', and the Toby Keith blaring in my ears... I figured it was Louisville owned so it was sort of like eating locally but not really. It was free so I gave it a shot. Good food, yet bad to almost annoying ambiance that will keep me away.

Are you just trying to piss people off... No they are a Locally based company doing well....What is wrong with that....

Are you just trying to piss people off...

The more I equate this to the religion of Trollism (Unreformed), the more it makes sense to me.

Robert is compelled by his Trollist religion to evangelize, which in turn means that the remainder of our spaces must constantly be invaded to make his point that we've erred in our ways by insisting on living our lives in a manner that promotes individuality and non-conformity. If we would simply open our wallets and permit ourselves to be enveloped by the healing grace of Trollism, we might all happily march to the beat of the chain restaurant uniformity, one meal, indivisible, for predictability and safety for all, coast to coast.

But gee, sayeth the Magyar prophet, the lemmings they are a'queuing before the Texas Roadhouse door; surely that is a sign from above that goodness and mercy reside therein.

Whatever.

Dean, of course Robert is trying to piss people off. That's all he's capable of doing. The frightening part is that he really believes the chain blather and never grasps the irony that chains exist to feed off the limitless credulity of people ... like Robert.

Makes me wonder why we have to keep listening to it here. The only reason I don't come out in favor of banning him is that he'll whine about freedom of speech ... which he regularly abuses at the behest of the teachings of the Trollist religion.

Actually it means that they are a well run operation that has had a very successfull life with the start of one restuarant in Southern Indiana....Could there be some jelousy involved with some of your comments....

Actually it means that they are a well run operation that has had a very successfull life with the start of one restuarant in Southern Indiana....Could there be some jelousy involved with some of your comments....

Jelousy ... er, wait - jealousy - would imply that I envy cookie cutters. I don't. We live precisely one life, and it's far too short to indulge bizarro-world fetishes for cookie cutters. You're wrong, Robert ... yet again.

Well Roger I think that if I were you I would vote me off...How dare someone eat and actually like it at a chain and not totally abstain from a place like that....How dare someone getting a Pizza from Pizza Hut or Papa Johns instead of yours and like it....How dare they do it....You are right Roger if I were you I would vote me off.......

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But Hank you DID respond......

They invented cookie cutters because people wanted they're cookie the same shape every time. As much as some people whine about chains on here, their existence makes the locals more special.

In addition to choosing to be based out of Louisville and employ many people, pay taxes, etc., they also entertain here every week. Please use some big words to convince me that they aren't great for the economy. It's not like Texas Roadhouse HQ has smoke stacks or dumps in the Ohio.

Roger- I appreciate your love for craft brew and individuality, but you come off pretty smug. I find it funny that you feel he does it for attention, and you give it to him. You even gave him his own religion. Don't go pitching in to help him build a compound.

My daddy didn't raise me to suffer fools. And I don't. Simple as that. Smug? Perhaps at times, which is why I try to be right as often as possible.

Don't forget that just as Robert's a Troll, I'm a Menckenite.

http://cityofnewalbany.blogspot.com/2008/06/mondays-essential-mencken-homo.html

The inferior man's reasons for hating knowledge are not hard to discern. He hates it because it is complex - because it puts an unbearable burden upon his meager capacity for taking in ideas.
--HL Mencken

To a man whos only tool is a hammer....everthing looks like a nail.....

I haven't posted much at all since I joined the proper forum, and it's this kind of back and forth that really turns me off from posting on this forum. This thread is a perfect example.
Any chef/owner who posts on something like this makes me think about where to use my dining dollars.

To a man whos only tool is a hammer....everthing looks like a nail.....

There are more things in heaven and earth, (Robert),
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
--Shakespeare (who wrote parts of "Hamlet" whilst dining at Applebee's)