Restaurant Stocks to Buy and Sell Now By Jeanine Poggi About this article: NEW YORK (TheStreet ) -- Restaurant earnings, on the whole, are bad enough to make any investor's stomach churn. Well, Wall Street will just need to be patient. Sales in the sector are not expected to turn until the third quarter of 2010, at the earliest, when they reach the anniversary point of the easiest annual comparisons. And consumer price index data released earlier this month paints a dreary picture. Food away from home rose just 2.6%, the lowest level of growth year-over-year since 2003. Regardless, even though the outlook for the sector for the remainder of the year is bleak, some stocks that the savvy investors should consider gobbling up So we asked our analysts at TheStreet ratings to give us the 3 Restaurant stocks to buy and 3 to sell, take a look at what we found. Next >> ... Or, call us at 1-866-321-TSCM (8726) Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. ET. Outside the U.S. and in Canada, call 1-212-321-5200. More Stories From RealMoney Durable Goods Up Move Down the Tech Food Chain Jobless Claims Still High Bulls' Tenacity Is the Big Question Mark Should You Buy It? Pharmaceutical Product Development Bad News Trumps All Support for Banks Holds, For Now Bummer, Yields Are on the Rise Money on the Line Makes a Big Difference Structured Products: Unsafe at Any Price MORE STORIES FROM REALMONEY

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