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RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. gets most of its revenue from adult-entertainment nightclubs in the United States, including Rick’s Cabaret and Tootsie’s Cabaret. Customers pay for admission, drinks and food, while the clubs also collect licensing and room-rental fees. Alcohol sales and service charges account for most nightclub revenue. Its smaller Bombshells Restaurant & Bar business serves customers who buy food and drinks in a restaurant and sports-bar setting.
The business depends heavily on being allowed to operate its clubs and sell alcohol. Local zoning rules, liquor licenses and restrictions on adult entertainment govern where and how the clubs can operate. Losing an alcohol permit can cut off an important source of revenue, while nightclub licensing restrictions can prevent a location from continuing to operate.
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RCI’s results hinge mainly on spending at its adult nightclubs and competition from locally owned adult clubs, so these restaurant-focused peers reflect only part of its business.
The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc.’s upscale restaurants and hospitality venues share RCI’s adult nightclubs’ dependence on customers spending spare income on a special night out rather than an everyday meal. Sales at its STK restaurants offer a window into that discretionary spending, though RCI also collects nightclub cover charges and other service fees.
BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. competes with RCI’s Bombshells for customers paying for meals and alcoholic drinks in a lively restaurant-bar setting, with large televisions and a full bar. Watch BJ’s restaurant remodels and expansion for changes in that competition; this overlap concerns Bombshells, not RCI’s core adult-nightclub business.
Flanigan's Enterprises Inc shares RCI’s exposure to customers spending on meals and alcoholic drinks at restaurants and sports bars, but its liquor stores and food-heavy restaurant sales make it a different business from nightclub-led RCI. Its restaurant bar sales are the closer comparison for RCI’s drink revenue: food accounts for approximately 79.67% of Flanigan’s total restaurant sales.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
The Fed’s decision tracks its benchmark borrowing rate, which can change what RCI Hospitality pays to finance its $238.2 million of debt and how affordable new borrowing is for club and restaurant investments.
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If it comes in above expectations
If the rate is above expectations, higher borrowing costs may leave RCI Hospitality with less cash for club acquisitions, Bombshells construction and renovations, or make those projects harder to finance.
If it comes in below expectations
If the rate is below expectations, cheaper borrowing may ease financing costs and make it easier for RCI Hospitality to fund club acquisitions, Bombshells construction and renovations.
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. earningsBJRI
BJ’s Restaurants’ report will show whether customers are still spending at lively restaurant-bars and whether rivals like it are remodeling or expanding against Bombshells.
Read BJ’s Restaurants’ sales alongside its remodeling and expansion activity. Stronger sales with continued investment would suggest these restaurant-bars are attracting customers and adding competitive capacity, putting more pressure on Bombshells; weaker sales and slower expansion would suggest less pressure, but would not tell you how Bombshells itself performed.
The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc. earningsSTKS
ONE Group’s STK sales will show whether customers are still spending on upscale nights out, a useful signal for demand at RCI Hospitality’s nightclubs.
Look at sales at STK restaurants. Stronger sales would suggest customers are still willing to pay for a special night out, a positive demand signal for RCI Hospitality’s nightclubs; weaker sales would suggest more caution on this kind of discretionary spending and possible pressure on nightclub demand too. STK’s restaurant sales do not directly show how RCI’s service fees or nightclub sales are doing.
Retail Sales MoM (Oct)
Retail sales track how much consumers spend at retailers; stronger spending may support customers’ purchases of drinks, food, merchandise and services at RCI Hospitality’s nightclubs and Bombshells restaurants and bars, while weaker spending may weigh on them.
Stronger retail sales suggest consumers are spending more, which may support purchases at RCI Hospitality’s nightclubs and Bombshells; weaker retail sales suggest less spending and may weigh on those customer purchases.
RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. earningsThis company
RCI Hospitality earns from nightclub service fees and sales, and from Bombshells food and drinks; its report will show whether customer spending is translating into better operating results.
Read same-store sales alongside operating income for Nightclubs and Bombshells separately. Rising sales with stronger operating income would show both customer demand and the ability to turn revenue into profit improving; declines in both would mean continued pressure on those businesses. If sales rise but income does not follow, costs may be absorbing the added revenue.
