And related to Red Lobster remodel, I don’t think we want to get into the absolute investment and absolute guest count lift but I would say that the results to date have been very encouraging. We think the remodel is contributing to a meaningful improvement in how current and lapsed users think about Red Lobster and use it and that the guest count lift has also been meaningful in both of those dimensions, guest image and guest behavior as it relates to traffic, are pretty close in parallel to what we saw at (inaudible) several years ago at Olive Garden, so it gives us a lot of confidence to move forward.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Joe Fisher of Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.
Joseph Fisher - Goldman Sachs
Good morning, just a quick one for Brad. I was wondering, I apologize if I missed it, if you could help us understand the impact from the 53rd week, or the 14th week maybe is the right way to say it, on fourth quarter restaurant level margins.
Brad Richmond
No, I don’t think we went into that in any great detail but basically what happens with that is there’s really no leveraging at the food and beverage line or really at the labor line but there is at the restaurant expense line and so I believe that impact on basis points is around 30 to 40 basis points across all of our brands in this particular quarter is the benefit we get from that.
Joseph Fisher - Goldman Sachs
Okay, that’s great. Thank you.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Joe Buckley of Banc of America. Please go ahead.
Joseph Buckley - Banc of America
Thank you. With respect to Red Lobster, same-store sales down just very, very slightly in the quarter. You mentioned quick catch. I’m curious if the lunch business picked up significantly in that better Red Lobster performance in the quarter?
Clarence Otis
Yeah, it did and we think that lunch is a meaningful business building opportunity long-term for Red Lobster, both to build sales and to leverage fixed costs and strengthen unit economics, so it was a significant positive for lunch.
Joseph Buckley - Banc of America
Okay, and then a question, I know you are not in the business of giving quarterly guidance but year ago the first quarter was pretty disappointing and it sets up a pretty easy compare going forward, and I guess I’m curious if you would agree with that assessment or if there’s anything unusual about the quarter. I mean, I think a year ago, you started the quarter with some pretty aggressive same-store sales assumptions, ended up guiding down late August, early September. Are you assuming that flat to down 2 kind of holds in the first quarter and what kind of margin doe sit hold. Thank you.
Andrew H. Madsen
Yeah. Joe, I would say on the first quarter for sure, benefits from some real year-over-year declines in a lot of cost, and so if you think back to the first quarter last year, a lot of food commodity costs were pretty high and have come down significantly. Energy costs were very high and have come down significantly and so certainly the first quarter benefits on the profitability side from that by a lot when compared to the rest of the year. On the sales side, we had not yet gotten the effect that we had of the financial collapse and some of the real onset, the heavy onset of the depression, so it was a better environment first quarter last year than it was for much of the rest of the year. So you’ve got those two dynamics working I think is how we think about the quarter.
Joseph Buckley - Banc of America
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