Bloomin' Brands Announces Turnaround Strategy, Releases 2025 Q3 Financial Results

Bloomin' Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLMN) today reported results for the third quarter 2025 ("Q3 2025") compared to the third quarter 2024 ("Q3 2024").

CEO Comments

"We have great momentum in our business as demonstrated by our third quarter results," said Mike Spanos, CEO. "All four brands drove positive comparable store sales growth for the first time since Q1 2023. Our teams continue to focus on consistency of execution in food quality and the guest experience, the foundation for our turnaround."

"I am excited to announce our turnaround strategy, with a focus on the Outback Steakhouse brand. In support of our strategy, we will reallocate available free cash flow into strategic investments in our base business and pay down debt. As a result, we have suspended the dividend. We believe our strategic plan will drive long-term, sustainable and profitable growth."

Diluted EPS and Adjusted Diluted EPS

The following table reconciles Diluted loss per share from continuing operations to Adjusted diluted (loss) earnings per share from continuing operations for the periods indicated (unaudited):

Third Quarter Financial Results from Continuing Operations

• The increase in Total revenues was primarily due to the net impact of restaurant openings and closures and higher U.S. comparable restaurant sales. These increases were partially offset by lower franchise revenues.

• GAAP operating income margin decreased from Q3 2024 primarily due to higher impairment and closure costs and a decrease in restaurant-level operating margin, as detailed below.

• Restaurant-level operating margin decreased from Q3 2024 primarily due to: (i) higher commodity, labor and operating costs, mainly due to inflation, (ii) higher insurance expense and (iii) unfavorable product cost mix. These decreases were partially offset by: (i) higher average check per person, primarily due to pricing, (ii) lower advertising expense and (iii) cost-saving and productivity initiatives.

• Adjusted operating income margin primarily excludes impairment and closure costs in connection with the 2025 Restaurant Closures and the impairment of five underperforming U.S. Restaurants.

Third Quarter Comparable Restaurant Sales

Our Turnaround Strategy

We are implementing a comprehensive turnaround strategy, with a key focus on Outback Steakhouse, to drive long-term sustainable and profitable growth. This strategy is based on four key platforms, including:

• Deliver a Remarkable Dine-In Experience: focus on operational excellence with center of the plate quality and service enhancements to deliver an exceptional guest experience, which will drive in-restaurant traffic growth
• Drive Brand Relevancy: expand brand reach to recruit new guests and increase frequency of visits
• Reignite a Culture of Ownership and Fun: reinvest in our people and strengthen our Principles & Beliefs-based culture which will drive an enhanced guest experience
• Invest in Our Restaurants: refresh our existing asset base to ensure restaurants are updated and reflect brand standards

These platforms will be supported by:

• Non-Guest Facing Productivity Savings: we are focused on cost savings in areas that will not impact the guest, such as indirect spend and contract negotiations
• Balanced Capital Allocation: we have a dual approach to invest in the base business and focus on debt paydown. To support the objectives, we suspended the dividend
• Strong Management Team: we have the right team in place to lead our brands through our turnaround initiatives, centered on an operational mindset and guest centricity

Additionally, in support of our turnaround strategy, during the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 28, 2025, we made the decision to close 21 U.S. restaurants and not renew the leases of 22 U.S. restaurants, the majority of which expire over the next four years (the "2025 Restaurant Closures"). Including the impacts of these closures, we recognized asset impairments and net closure charges of $33.2 million during Q3 2025. The closures of the 21 U.S. restaurants were completed during October 2025 with an estimated $5.0 million to $7.0 million of related severance and closure charges to be recorded during the thirteen weeks ended December 28, 2025.

Dividend Declaration

In October 2025, our Board of Directors suspended the dividend as a component of the turnaround strategy.

Fiscal 2025 Financial Outlook

The table below presents our updated expectations for selected 2025 financial operating results. We are reaffirming all other aspects of our full-year financial guidance as previously communicated.

Q4 2025 Financial Outlook

The table below presents our expectations for selected fiscal Q4 2025 financial operating results from continuing operations.

Conference Call

The Company will host a conference call today, November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST. The conference call will be webcast live from the Company's website at http://www.bloominbrands.com under the Investors section. A replay of this webcast will be available on the Company's website after the call.

About Bloomin' Brands, Inc.

Bloomin' Brands, Inc. is one of the largest casual dining restaurant companies in the world with a portfolio of leading, differentiated restaurant concepts. The Company's restaurant portfolio includes Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba's Italian Grill, Bonefish Grill and Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar. The Company owns, operates and franchises more than 1,450 restaurants in 46 states, Guam and 12 countries. For more information, please visit www.bloominbrands.com.

Non-GAAP Measures

In addition to the results provided in accordance with GAAP, this press release and related tables include certain non-GAAP measures, which present operating results on an adjusted basis. These are supplemental measures of performance that are not required by or presented in accordance with GAAP and include: (i) Restaurant-level operating income, adjusted restaurant-level operating income and their corresponding margins, (ii) Adjusted income from operations and the corresponding margin, (iii) Adjusted segment income from operations and the corresponding margin, (iv) Adjusted net (loss) income and (v) Adjusted diluted (loss) earnings per share.

Restaurant-level operating margin is a non-GAAP financial measure widely regarded in the industry as a useful metric to evaluate restaurant-level operating efficiency and performance of ongoing restaurant-level operations, and we use it for these purposes.

We believe that our use of non-GAAP financial measures permits investors to assess the operating performance of our business relative to our performance based on GAAP results and relative to other companies within the restaurant industry by isolating the effects of certain items that may vary from period to period without correlation to core operating performance or that vary widely among similar companies. However, our inclusion of these adjusted measures should not be construed as an indication that our future results will be unaffected by unusual or infrequent items or that the items for which we have made adjustments are unusual or infrequent or will not recur. We believe that the disclosure of these non-GAAP measures is useful to investors as they form part of the basis for how our management team and Board of Directors evaluate our operating performance, allocate resources and administer employee incentive plans.

These non-GAAP financial measures are not intended to replace GAAP financial measures, and they are not necessarily standardized or comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies. We maintain internal guidelines with respect to the types of adjustments we include in our non-GAAP measures. These guidelines endeavor to differentiate between types of gains and expenses that are reflective of our core operations in a period, and those that may vary from period to period without correlation to our core performance in that period. However, implementation of these guidelines necessarily involves the application of judgment, and the treatment of any items not directly addressed by, or changes to, our guidelines will be considered by our disclosure committee. You should refer to the reconciliations of non-GAAP measures in Tables Four, Five and Six included later in this release for descriptions of the actual adjustments made in the current period and the corresponding prior period.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements contained herein, including statements under the headings "CEO Comments", "Fiscal 2025 Financial Outlook" and "Q4 2025 Financial Outlook" are not based on historical fact and are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Generally, these statements can be identified by the use of words such as "guidance," "believes," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "on track," "feels," "forecasts," "seeks," "projects," "intends," "plans," "may," "will," "should," "could," "would" and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. These forward-looking statements include all matters that are not historical facts. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to execute and achieve the expected benefits of our actions to focus on operational priorities, including our turnaround plans and cost-saving initiatives to fund such plans; consumer reaction to public health and food safety issues; increases in labor costs and fluctuations in the availability of employees and our ability to attract, train, and retain key personnel; increases in unemployment rates and taxes; competition; interruption or breach of our systems or loss of consumer or employee information; price and availability of commodities and other impacts of inflation and tariffs; our dependence on a limited number of suppliers and distributors; political, social and legal conditions in international markets and their effects on foreign operations and foreign currency exchange rates; the impacts of our operations in Brazil as a minority investor and franchisor following our sale transaction on our results; our ability to address corporate citizenship and sustainability matters and investor expectations; local, regional, national and international economic conditions; changes in patterns of consumer traffic, consumer tastes and dietary habits; the effects of changes in tax laws; costs, diversion of management attention and reputational damage from any claims or litigation; government actions and policies, including the impact of the ongoing U.S. government shutdown; challenges associated with our remodeling, relocation and expansion plans; our ability to preserve the value of and grow our brands; consumer confidence and spending patterns; the effects of a health pandemic, weather, acts of God and other disasters and the ability or success in executing related business continuity plans; the Company's ability to make debt payments and planned investments and the Company's compliance with debt covenants; the cost and availability of credit; interest rate changes; and any impairments in the carrying value of goodwill and other assets. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of the Company and its forward-looking statements is included in its most recent Form 10-K and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as may be required by law. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.

Note: Numerical figures included in this release have been subject to rounding adjustments.

Following is a summary of the financial statement line item classification of the net (loss) income adjustments from continuing operations:

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Tara Kurian

SVP, IR, FP&A, and International

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