secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (LOCO)
CIK:        0001606366
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-05-04T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001606366-22-000030
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

El Pollo Loco Q1 revenue $110.1M (+2.2%); net income down 47% to $0.06 EPS
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- Total revenue $110.1M (+2% YoY); system-wide comp sales +7.8% driven by pricing.
- Restaurant contribution margin fell to 10.3% from 16.1% on higher commodity & labor costs.
- Net income $2.1M ($0.06 diluted EPS) vs $4.0M ($0.11); pro forma EPS $0.07 vs $0.13.
- Adjusted EBITDA $8.5M vs $11.9M; operating income $3.3M vs $6.0M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636622000030/0001606366-22-000030-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636622000030/loco-20220504x8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001606366-22-000030

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