Closing underperforming restaurants has been good for Noodles & Company.
The company on Wednesday reported same-store sales up 4% systemwide in the third quarter, including increases of 4% at company owned and 4.3% at franchised units.
Those sales trends improved each month through the Sept. 30-ended third quarter. And, though traffic was down 0.6% at the end of the third quarter, trends had turned positive about halfway through and the upswing continued into fourth quarter…