Two new exterior designs will be under construction in the next30 days, but a completely new prototype is a while off. The companyhas prepared a small building design, a square design and islooking at drive-throughs.
"[Drive-throughs] continue to be an opportunity for us as wemove forward, but we have not done a tremendous amount of work interms of really driving an initiative towards an entirely newprototype building," said Dave Near, COO. "That may be somethingthat we look at towards the latter half of the year."
The strategic review process, announced in April 2007, has takenlonger than expected due to the turmoil in the stock markets, thecompany said last week. That delay is slowing the conversion ofcompany-owned units to franchises as potential franchisees seekcertainty.
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