{"id":561303,"date":"2012-06-27T03:50:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T07:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrbbd.wpengine.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/what-do-following-companies-have-common\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T12:44:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:44:38","slug":"what-do-following-companies-have-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/what-do-following-companies-have-common\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do the Following Companies Have in Common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This is just a partial list: Church\u2019s Chicken, Uno Chicago Grill, Charlie Brown\u2019s, Domino\u2019s Pizza, Burger King, Cinnabon, Sizzler.\u00a0 The first response would be that they are all in the food business, and that\u2019s correct.\u00a0 Now name the second thing that they all have in common?\u00a0 Give up?\u00a0 Well, they (and many others) have been purchased by private equity firms.\u00a0 And, apparently, this is just the beginning.\u00a0 The huge Dunkin Donuts chain is being sought after by two or three private equity firms.<\/p>\n<p>Why the interest in restaurants from groups that most people associate with high tech?\u00a0 Many firms got burned during the dot com and high tech meltdown.\u00a0 Now these same private equity firms are looking at businesses that are stable, with more predictable earnings, and that are also very familiar businesses, time-tested and still have a lot of growth ahead.<\/p>\n<p>One industry expert said in Nation\u2019s Restaurant News, \u201cWhat\u2019s really driving this is the success of these deals, the numbers that the private equity companies are getting when they sell\u2026\u201d\u00a0 For example, he noted, \u201cRestaurant Associates bought Charlie Brown in 1975 for $3 million and sold it to Castle Harlan seven years later for $50 million.\u00a0 Castle Harlan got almost three times that price \u2013 an appreciation of $90 million with the sale to Trimaran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If private equity and similar firms are now buying restaurants, what businesses are next?\u00a0 If you are the owner of a small growing company or chain of businesses \u2013 is a private equity firm in your future?\u00a0 A professional intermediary may be able to answer that question for you and if you are considering selling \u2013 they can also help.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a partial list: Church\u2019s Chicken, Uno Chicago Grill, Charlie Brown\u2019s, Domino\u2019s Pizza, Burger King, Cinnabon, Sizzler.\u00a0 The first response would be that they are all in the food business, and that\u2019s correct.\u00a0 Now name the second thing that they all have in common?\u00a0 Give up?\u00a0 Well, they (and many others) have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-selling-a-business"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}