secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (LOCO)
CIK:        0001606366
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-05-04T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001606366-23-000016
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

El Pollo Loco Q1 revenue up 4.1% to $114.5M; net income more than doubles to $4.9M
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- Revenue $114.5M vs $110.0M YoY; system-wide comparable restaurant sales +0.8%.
- Net income $4.9M ($0.13 diluted EPS) vs $2.1M ($0.06) a year ago.
- Adjusted diluted EPS $0.14 vs $0.07; adjusted EBITDA $12.2M vs $8.5M.
- Restaurant contribution margin improved to 15.0% from 10.3% of company-operated revenue.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636623000016/0001606366-23-000016-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636623000016/loco-20230504x8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001606366-23-000016

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