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Why careful growth is vital for restaurant chains

A Deeper Dive: Nick Marsh, CEO of Founders Table Restaurant Group, joins the restaurant finance podcast to talk about the company’s history and why growth chains do better together.

Why is careful growth more important for restaurant chains?

This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive features Nick Marsh, the CEO of Founders Table Restaurant Group.

This is the second in our series of episodes exploring Founders Table’s recent acquisition of Hopdoddy Burger Bar. We wanted to talk with Marsh specifically about what his company is about. Founders Table also owns Chop’t, Dos Toros and Protein Bar, an interesting group of chains.

He talks about the firm’s very beginnings and how it was formed with a couple of concepts owned by the private-equity firm L Catterton. Marsh talks about the benefits of putting growth chains together to share services and why that frees up brand founders to focus on their concepts. 

We also get into a discussion about growth strategies and why it’s important not to get too aggressive in growing emerging concepts. And of course we talk about what Founders Table sees in Hopdoddy. 

We’re talking growth on A Deeper Dive so please check it out. 

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