Potential acquirers include grocers like Kroger, which could seek to diversify or further consolidate the grocery industry; Walmart, which has been building its coterie of digitally native brands; Target, which has been struggling to find its place; Nordstrom, which may need another route if its leveraged buyout falls through; and sit - down
restaurant companies like Dinequity or Bloomin Brands, who may look to buy more on - trend, faster - serve concepts.
Not exact matches
Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE
Restaurants, the parent
company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, has found it easier to set up shop in countries
like Brazil and China rather than contend with U.S. government regul...
There are
companies like Cake, a
restaurant technology
company that helps even the playing field.
Though Skinner had cleaned up and modernized
restaurants and layered in new revenue drivers
like McCafé beverages and extended hours, the
company failed to address the fact that the McDonald's customer was evolving, says Larry Light, a consultant who was the
company's global chief marketing officer until 2005.
As the
company's history books
like to boast, P.J. «awoke the sleeping giant» when he consolidated ownership and shifted Cara's focus from transportation to
restaurants.
When Cara Operations merged with Fairfax Financial's Prime
Restaurants in October, the 130 - year old
company cemented its grip on Canada's casual dining market by adding East Side Mario's and Casey's to an arsenal that already included nationwide chains
like Swiss Chalet and Milestones.
While most Canadian
restaurant companies have either a single brand (
like A&W or Pizza Pizza) or a handful they oversee as a master franchisee (Priszm Income Fund, for example, is the Canadian parent to KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut), MTY's multiplying offerings allowed it to match the cuisine to each location and demographic.
From
restaurants to plumbers to corner retail stores, local small
companies can see a nice increase in business if they receive positive recommendations on popular user - review sites
like Yelp.
It's a great tool for purging worry and particularly fitting for No Taste
Like Home, an Asheville, North Carolina,
company that gives wild food adventure tours in which participants forage for wild mushrooms and other edibles which get cooked up for them at a local
restaurant.
Based on data that my
company analyzed from thousands of small businesses in verticals
like restaurants, retail, salons and spas and coffee and tea, we estimate that the typical brick - and - mortar business» monthly churn rate is shockingly high - likely in the 40 to 50 percent range, though there is huge variation.
Our
company analyzed data from thousands of small businesses across a dozen verticals
like coffee and tea,
restaurants, retail, and nightlife, and our observation is that on average 20 percent of a small business's customers drive over 72 percent of their visits.
Social - media accounts are especially powerful for
companies in industries that sell goods and services directly to consumers — retail,
restaurants, consultants, piano teachers and the
like.
At first glance, it may not seem
like the chicken announcement from Shake Shack will move the needle much as the
company has fewer than 100
restaurant locations in the U.S..
While Grubhub has a strong advantage with more than 40,000
restaurant partners in over 1,000 U.S. cities and London, highly capitalized
companies like Uber, Google and Amazon stand to challenge its position in the marketplace.
But when a plot of land on that road finally went up for sale, Kennedy, the founder of Noodles &
Company — a $ 120 million national
restaurant chain headquartered nearby — discovered it was too close to the street for his
liking.
Harris also said that
companies with physical storefronts,
like retail and
restaurants, are most likely to be hurt by anti-American sentiment.
Japan's recovering economy is facing a labor crunch, which is particularly serious for small and midsize
companies, as well as service industries
like retail,
restaurants and transport, which are pinning their hopes on female and older workers.
It allowed users to order takeout directly from fast - casual
restaurants like Chipotle, Panera and Papa John's, much as
companies like Seamless and GrubHub do.
With bootstrapping and a small convertible note funding, we have built a business that grew over 380 % YoY from 2016 to 2017, with over 300 businesses on our platform, ranging from large grocery chains
like Roche Brothers, billion dollar food management
companies like Compass Group, to hundreds of individual
restaurants, caterers, and even food trucks.
Over time, the
company believes it could be a 3,500 store
restaurant chain dishing out biscuits in new markets
like California and Texas.
Mall owners
like General Growth Properties (NYSE: GGP) have found success by targeting experience - based tenants
like gyms,
restaurants, movie theaters, amusement - based
companies like Dave & Buster's, and even grocery stores.
Since then the industry has grown with ETFs following narrower benchmarks
like stocks of natural gas,
restaurant or aerospace
companies.
And
like many other big
restaurant companies, McDonald's has also been cutting back on chemicals and artificial growth hormones in some of its food.
Ideally, when it comes to which sectors you're investing in, you'll have a nice mix of both defensive and cyclical stocks — meaning
companies that should hold up well in all kinds of markets (
like utilities) and others that can be expected to perform particularly well in certain economic environments (
like hotels and
restaurants, which benefit when the economy is booming).
... If you don't
like their policy (this is a privately held
company after all) then don't go to their
restaurants!
Frustrated by the high prices and market manipulation of the multi-national beverage
companies like Coke and Pepsi, Powell sought out other options and began importing soda syrups for their
restaurant from a New York - based private label manufacturer of bulk bag - in - box concentrates for automatic dispensing equipment.
The
company's product lines include seasoned flours
like the one that made the family famous for the
restaurant industry, marinades for industrial foodservice customers and breading and cake mixes for foodservice customers.
Oscar and Evelyn Overton's wholesale cheesecake
company was successful quickly after it first started selling creamy cheesecakes
like this clone to
restaurant chains in the early 1970's.
«I
liked the idea of owning my own
company, but I wasn't sure running a
restaurant could pay the bills unless it was an overwhelmingsuccess,» he says.
The
company explains that Jiménez, who has more than 20 years of combined experience in consumer packaged goods and
restaurant marketing at
companies like Unilever and Yum!
«When we got started, there were just a few
restaurants doing this, now it seems
like there's hundreds,» says Kevin Wessel, CEO and president of HW Holdings, the Littleton, Colo. - headquartered
company that licenses the Le Peep brand.
Botiwalla, which will open this April in Atlanta's Ponce City Market, is one of a new breed of
restaurants that includes Babu Ji, Floyd Cardoz's upcoming Paowalla in New York City, Michael Mina's The
Company pop - up in San Francisco and a slew of fast - casual spots
like Inday and Soho Tiffin Junction, which are pushing Indian cuisine forward, moving it beyond lunchtime buffets and saag paneer into more nuanced territory — the
likes of which could do what, say, David Chang has done for Korean food with the Momofuku empire or Danny Bowien's interpretation of Chinese with Mission Chinese.
The private - equity firm, which is focused exclusively on the
restaurant industry and has worked with brands
like Taco Bell and Denny's, said the partnership will recapitalize the
company and accelerate new store growth across the Midwest and beyond.
Sous vide style protein products from
companies like Stampede Meat make the upscale method deceptively simple for a great many
restaurant customers.
Shake Shack, along with similar fast casual
restaurants like Chipotle, Panera, and Noodles &
Company, is catering to a consumer who is looking for an upgrade.
I work with private chefs,
restaurants,
companies like Kenwood and international schools to develop menus, recipes and food guidelines.
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, RHG is a hospitality management
company formed by
like - minded individuals dedicated to evolving the typical
restaurant landscape into a one which provides unique and meaningful experiences for each and every guest.
The Chickery is partnered with Fransmart, the franchise development
company behind the explosive growth of
restaurant brands,
like Five Guys Burgers & Fries and Qdoba Mexican Grill, to support their expansion efforts.
With
companies like Hungry Media, helping
restaurants get a competitive edge in online ordering, there's no reason for pizza businesses to stay offline any longer.
Companies like Hungry Media are now providing options for
restaurants that are looking to tap into the growing profits of online ordering.
The
company's commercial customer list reads
like a «Who's Who» of major
restaurant chains, and gourmet chefs say their Vitamix machines are as important to them as their knives.
There are tons of great Italian
restaurants in Back Bay and the North End
like Limoncello's and Piatinni's, and if your kids
like seafood
like mine does, I recommend Luke's Lobster or Atlantic Fish
Company.
The state Legislature approved START - UP NY in 2013, allowing new or expanding businesses to be free of sales and income taxes for 10 years — provided
companies are not on the long list of unauthorized uses
like hotels,
restaurants, retail and wholesale distribution centers.
Jamestown Brewing
Company is a brewpub and
restaurant like nothing else in Jamestown.
But the requirement would only apply to workers directly employed by the
companies receiving the benefits — not their tenants, meaning a
restaurant like McDonald's renting in a subsidized could continue to pay its workers minimum wage.
Fort Schuyler paid LPCiminelli for all kinds of expenses that state agencies do not typically cover,
like lavish dinners with business guests and lunches for the
company's employees at local
restaurants.
In his study, he focused on outbreaks of E. coli, which has recently affected
restaurants like Chipotle and
companies like Totino's, which sells frozen pizza products.
You can ask which oil a
restaurant fries in, but some fast food
companies (
like McDonald's) forbid their employees from revealing whether trans fats are used.
I do not
like going to
restaurants that serve desserts they have ordered from other
companies.
The
company also hosts monthly events with their members at places
like bars and
restaurants to make connecting even easier.