Chain: Jack in the Box

Jack in the Box Inc., announced a 3.5 percent year-to-year improvement in same-store average weekly sales for the recent four-week period, which ended December 24.

This year, Jack in the Box restaurants is serving up its own version of traditional eggnog, a seasonal favorite.

Jack in the Box has launched the Jack’s Gear(TM) Web page on the company’s Web site—www.jackinthebox.com.

Cruising in to all Jack in the Box® restaurants today is the new, rosy-cheeked Jack Holiday Ball antenna topper, complete with a dapper scarf and fuzzy yellow earmuffs.

Debuting in all Jack in the Box restaurants on Nov. 29, the Jack millennium antenna ball, complete with a festive party hat and a noisemaker, will be offered free with the purchase of a Sourdough Jack combo.

Robert J. Nugent, president and CEO of Jack in the Box Inc., will become CEO and chairman of the company’s board of directors February 23, 2001, following the retirement of current chairman Jack W. Goodall.

Jack in the Box is preparing for its 50th Anniversary, noting that the company has performed well since inception. With its fourth quarter and fiscal year having closed October 1, the company expects to report its 23rd consecutive quarter of same store sales growth.

The new Wide World of Jack bendable figures debut at Jack in the Box restaurants on Monday, Sept. 18.

With a record 22 consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth, Jack in the Box Inc. reported record third-quarter earnings of $20.8 million

Jack in the Box is scheduled to open a newly designed restaurant in Pomona, California, the first of its kind outside of the chain’s new markets in the Southeast.

Jack in the Box Inc. reported May 9 record second-quarter earnings of $16.1 million, or 41 cents per diluted share.

Jack in the Box Inc., reported on February 16, 2000 record first-quarter earnings of $20.4 million, compared with $15.8 million in the first quarter a year ago — an increase of 29 percent.

On Dec. 6, 1999, the Jack in the Box Inc. Board of Directors today authorized a common stock repurchase program, in which the company may buy back up to $10 million of its common stock.