After a relatively quiet end of 2025 by Texas Roadhouse standards, the steakhouse chain is coming out of the gates hot so far in 2026.
Through the first seven weeks of the current quarter, same-store sales are up 8.2%. If that holds, it would be their highest level since the third quarter of 2024.
And that includes the effects of Winter Storm Fern, which kept many consumers from going out for about a week in late January. Executives estimated that the net impact of the bad weather knocked about 1.5% off of its same-store sales thus far in the quarter…