This escalation was primarily due to a rise in food and beverage costs (driven by commodities inflation of 15%), restaurant expenses (owing to supply chain challenges and utilities inflation of 16%) and labor costs (owing to labor inflation of 7.5%). Some better-ranked stocks in the Zacks Retail – Restaurants industry are Wingstop Inc. WING, Chuy's Holdings, Inc. CHUY and Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. CMG. Wingstop sports a Zacks Rank #1.