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https://i-invdn-com.investing.com/trkd-images/LYNXMPEJ7011J_L.jpgResilient customer spending has helped the UK hospitality slowly recover from pandemic lows amid pressures from high costs.
“While we continue to face a challenging and uncertain macroeconomic environment, we remain confident in the many opportunities we see for Domino’s in 2023,” interim Chief Executive Elias Diaz Sese said in a statement.
In the first half of the year, total orders increased 2.8% to 35.4 million, helping the company to post an 8.2% rise in underlying core profit.
The company, a franchisee of U.S.-based Domino’s Pizza (NYSE:DPZ) Inc, said it now expects an underlying core profit of about 132 million pounds – 138 million pounds for the year.
Analysts on average had expected 127.6 million pounds, according to a company-compiled consensus.
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