Financing

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Financing

With Sardar Biglari lurking, Jack in the Box swallows a poison pill

The fast-food company, which also owns Del Taco, adopted a shareholder rights plan after Biglari Capital Corp. accumulated more stock. Biglari has been hunting restaurant deals lately.

Financing

The story behind the fast-growing restaurant chain Mo'Bettahs

A Deeper Dive: Rob Ertmann, CEO of the Hawaiian-style fast-casual chain, joins the restaurant finance podcast to talk about growth strategies, barriers, tariffs and traffic.

The Bottom Line: Biglari Holdings’ share price has improved over the past couple of years, and now its chairman is eyeing both Jack in the Box and El Pollo Loco. But there are lessons for other restaurant executives.

The full-service breakfast chain added the per-egg fee in February to help combat record egg prices.

In an overall down year for full-service unit growth, these five brands bucked the trend. And the leader might surprise you.

The Bottom Line: Taco Bell and Whataburger have introduced new beverages in recent days. McDonald’s is testing its own options. Expect other quick-service chains to jump into the fray.

The Bottom Line: Wall Street is slowly dipping its toe back into restaurant industry stocks. Investors are leery about fast-food chains and they’re jumping onto a few key casual-dining bandwagons.

The Bottom Line: Before the pandemic, double-digit same-store sales results were rare and 20% increases were almost unheard of. Not anymore. Why social media is changing the possibilities of quarterly restaurant results.

The fast-growing Chinese coffee chain opened its first two locations in New York on Monday, adding an aggressive new competitor to what is already an intensifying beverage business.

The Week in Restaurants: This week’s episode of the restaurant news discussion podcast features a look at fast-casual prices, deportation's impact on restaurant sales, and McDonald’s and Krispy Kreme.

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