0851 ET - Restaurant stocks are once again under pressure from a host of external factors--"some real, some perhaps overplayed, all hard to predict," Morgan Stanley analysts say in a note. Higher gas prices, interest rates and cost pressures are all weighing on the industry, the analysts say. Political uncertainty and geopolitical disruptions are also overhangs, they say. "As for AI, we'll see," they add. Restaurant demand data, meanwhile, doesn't look much different overall but continues to be choppy in some pockets under the surface, they say. "We could call this an overreaction from a stock standpoint (like the ones we have seen before)," they say.