Twin Peaks

Financing

Free from bankruptcy, Twin Peaks shifts back to growth mode

The breastaurant chain has spent the past year under a cloud of financial problems and bankruptcy. But it now has new owners, backed by franchisees, and a plan to resume its growth.

Financing

Twin Peaks franchisees have a path to take ownership of the brand

Summit Acquisitions, featuring some of the casual-dining chain’s operators, will oversee the brand’s operations and growth strategy as it works toward a full purchase over the next year-plus.

352 Capital, a subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group, is suing the fast-food restaurant chain operator for refusing to hand over shares in the casual-dining brand as collateral.

The Twin Peaks chairman replaces Kim Boerema, who was let go after just six months on the job. The breastaurant chain has struggled since its IPO last January.

The Bottom Line: Lawsuits, regulatory filings and our own reports paint a picture of a deepening financial problem at the owner of Fazoli’s, Fatburger and several other restaurant chains.

The restaurants owned by DMD Ventures include some of the best-performing of the breastaurant chain’s 114 stores.

Boerema replaces Joe Hummel as chief of casual-dining company Twin Hospitality Group, which went public earlier this year.

Two months after helping to take the sports bar chain public, Hummel along with Chief Legal Officer Clay Mingus are leaving to pursue other opportunities.

Most of the barbecue brand's remaining units will be turned into Twin Peaks as the sports-bar chain ramps up development.

The former COO of franchisee DMD Ventures accused the company’s co-founders of using corporate funds to pay for lavish lifestyles. They vehemently denied the allegations and leveled some of their own.

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