looks like the same store sales were declining, across burger king, tim horton's, popeyes, what was the problem, is it that people are eating breakfast at home >> hey, sarra, great to see you. thanks for having me actually, we were pretty encouraged with the performance, with some of our business in the fourth quarter sequentially, we saw improvements with each of our brands, popeye's in particular was comping over the launch of the chicken sandwich in q4 of 2019, where we posted a plus 38%, same store sales look, and we had a great year throughout 2020, with the performance of the chicken sandwich and some of our other great product, great-tasting products at popeye's and tim horton's, we saw really good progress in q4 as well, we had our best performance of the year, in december, and we saw our drive-through business perform much better and so we were encouraged by the progress we made on some of the key initiatives at tim horton's as well and at burger king, we were negative for the quarter but we saw some improvements towards the end of the quarter and made some investments in long-

restaurant brands today, jim, down more than 4% on some of the tim horton comps i think down 11 or soter for qsr. we'll take a break here. treasuries this morning, yields are lower. that weekly jobless claims number was elevated at 793 k still above what was expected. take a look at the 10 and the 30 and the 5 as well and the 2 as well dollar index, we will wrap this up here. back after a break these days, it's okay to do some things halfway... but taking prescriptions shouldn't be one of them. so cvs has a proprietary search tool that looks for savings. plus free delivery. get a free prescription savings review at cvs. - [announcer] grubhub perks give you the kind of panera deals that make you want to move. ♪ get a free delivery perk on your first order from panera, only on.. - [group] grubhub! - [announcer] grub what you love. >>> we got some china headlines to get to this morning one was a readout between the first phone call between the president and president xi of china, axios this morning, jim, says the administration definitely sees merit in the idea that china is a fierce, ma

same store sales at tim hortons dropped 11% hurt by store closures due to the pandemic i should noteurger king franchisee. >> you're good about declaring that every single time >>> we are just fraction on the hour app 500 with 44 minutes left of the session. the latest economic data shows the pandemic continues to weigh on the labor market just with weekly jobless claims coming in at 793,000 compared to estimates of 760,000 coming as the biden administration looks to pass a $1.9 trillion covid relief bill that includes more direct payments for americans and extended unemployment support. joining us now is jared bernstein. very good afternoon to you thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure >> so, clearly a good early approval rating on this front. 62%. brings a smile to your face, as i can see. how long is that sustainable, realistically, before we get into the weeds of it do you have to be perfect to keep it above 60%? >> there's a lot of wind in the sails of this administration for very good condreasons that willp explain that rate. i don't want to predict the future, but should contin