Nov 14 (Reuters) - Boston Pizza Royalties Income Fund BPF_u.TO :
* Announces third quarter 2017 results including distributable cash per unit increase of 3.5 percent and payout ratio of 88.4 percent
* Franchise sales of $221.5 million for Q3 of 2017 increased by 2.8 percent versus one year ago
* Qtrly same store sales growth of positive 0.4 percent
* System-wide gross sales of $286.7 million for quarter, representing an increase of 1.8 percent
* Qtrly diluted earnings per unit $0.02