finance

Financing

Restaurant stocks get hit as Wall Street frets about virus cases

Casual dining stocks and Potbelly are hard hit while the Delta variant spreads and renews concerns about the economy.

Technology

Choco raises $100M for supply chain technology

Transactions on the company's digital ordering platform quadrupled in the past year.

Stock prices for all but one publicly traded restaurant company are up this year. But investors have grown more bullish on casual dining.

The resulting company will now also operate Mastro's, Vic and Anthony's, and Catchsteak.

The money will be allocated in grants of up to $30,000, with the exact amount determined by revenue losses in 2020.

A look at 50 of the most notable deals this year shows how investors are increasingly eager to cash in on what is becoming an enormous market.

The PPP and the Restaurant Revitalization Fund may be done, but the agency's Emergency Injury Disaster Loan program still has money available for loans and grants.

James Park will help guide Mercato's restaurant-focused Savory Fund as it looks to invest in more growth concepts.

The celebrity chef announced the grants Saturday. Six other individuals were awarded scholarships totaling $175,000.

The owner of 102 shopping centers is restructuring its debt load after the pandemic kept restaurants and retailers from paying their leases.

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