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In those 34 years, the amount of chicken that consumers ate increased from 27.4 pounds per person to 59.2 pounds of boneless, edible weight. The USDA noted...

When Carlisle Corp. was introduced to the LYFE Kitchen fast-casual concept earlier this year, the Memphis-based real estate company was merely looking for another restaurant growth vehicle (it’s already a 77-unit Wendy’s franchisee). What developed instead was a shared-services agreement that aligned the strengths of the operations into a fast-growth venture. LYFE would provide the means to ride many of the emerging trends in the business, while Carlisle would lend its expertise on real estate, acquisitions and general-and-administrative efficiencies.

If the McDonald’s CEO would let me buy him lunch, I bet he’d leave with some steal-able ideas.