finance

Financing

Mercato Partners announces a new $90M restaurant investment fund

Savory Fund I is designed to develop promising restaurant concepts, and has experienced operators on board to help guide the firm’s investments.

Financing

Red Robin warns of a struggle to stay in business

The casual chain's revised credit facility requires $25 million to be raised from equity, and management has aired doubts about doing it in time.

Proceeds from the private stock sale will be used to offset COVID-19-related debt and fund the addition of more history-laced pubs and attractions.

Nasdaq notified the troubled coffee giant that it would be delisted, and the company plans to appeal.

Garden Fresh Restaurants opts for liquidation rather than reopening its buffet-centric restaurants due to coronavirus restrictions.

The chain's parent company is currently discussing alternative options with identified parties.

Garden Fresh Restaurants has hired bankruptcy counsel and says it sees “no way to operate” given FDA recommendations that buffets not open.

The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce intends to offer interest-free loans of up to $30,000.

It projects that it could be in default on its financial covenants for the second quarter, but expects to have access to more funds next week.

A surge in to-go sales has pushed stores close to profitability, executives say.

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