What we've seen over the past few months is a very gradual recovery in retail sales. We're likely to see a continued recovery in coming months, but nothing dramatic.

Retail sales have shown tentative signs of a modest recovery from weak levels, but in our view a continuing threat remains the weakness of the labor market ... which may slow the pace of consumer spending.

This past year we did grow our sales in Canada, and with some of the new products here we're optimistic we're going to do the same here in 2006.

Many of the factors that have negatively impacted sales over the past year are lessening.

Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 percent last year. Sales in the first-half of this year have continued to be strong, and Pink appears to be contributing to it.

There has been no impact on Wendy's recent sales trends over the past three days (Friday through Sunday) since the announcement by the USDA that confirmed a single cow from a farm in Washington State tested presumptive positive for BSE,