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How the owner of Krystal and Logan's Roadhouse makes it work

A Deeper Dive: Josh Kern, CEO of multi-brand operator SPB Hospitality, joins the restaurant finance podcast to talk about the company’s brands and their futures.

What’s the next step for the owner of Krystal?

This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive features Josh Kern, the CEO of the multi-brand restaurant operator SPB Hospitality, which owns several different chains.

This is the latest in a series of podcast episodes that we recorded during the National Restaurant Association Show last month. 

SPB Hospitality owns and operates a wide range of restaurants, including the fast-food concept Krystal, the casual-dining brand Logan’s Roadhouse and the upscale casual brand J. Alexander’s. 

Kern talks about the brands and how they’re doing. He also talks about operating a multi-brand company and how it can run both full-service and limited-service concepts. 

He also talks about the company’s future strategy, and whether it plans to keep all these brands or whether it plans to put one or two of them on the market. 

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