El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (LOCO) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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leases being signed for projects for next year gives us even more confidence in being able to accelerate far beyond the 10 that we have this year. We're not giving a firm number yet for next year. Hope to do that in the upcoming months, but can safely say you'll see some nice growth off of the 10. Great. I appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. The next question is from Andy Barish from Jefferies. Please go ahead. Hey, good afternoon, guys. Anything other than just the backdrop that you described? I mean, March seemed to fall off. Was it just Mango Habanero kind of ran its course or anything you can point to on the month of March that you didn't address in your prepared remarks? Yeah, the one additional would be the weather. And I always hate to bring up Mother Nature, but given the prominence of Southern California, usually I know weather isn't a big thing in California. But in March, we had actually about three weeks of rain. And you always see an impact, particularly on our lunch business when it's raining, a little bit on our dinner business, but it's pronounced. And so that would be the other piece that was a true headwind in March. In addition to just all of the macro, just the uncertainty, you could just see the consumer reacting to that. And also, I guess the other point would be we launched Mango Habanero in January, so we got that nice pop in trial in January, February. And although we got great customer reactions, some of the repeat could have been stronger as we were running it out into the third month of a product. And just some of our operational execution, if I'm being really honest. I think could have been better in terms of just having that repeat be even stronger. So coupled with the weather and the consumer malaise, it just meant for a softer March than w...