The last time I went deep on a restaurant chain, it kind of blew up on me. As you might remember, I’m a massive Portillo’s fan. They were on their way to Colorado, and in the last six months, they’ve paused their Denver-area expansion plans, … Continue reading Salad and Go? Came and went. The quick rise and fall of drive-thru salads.
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Local success, national question mark: Portillo’s expansion and IPO
I saw an infographic floating around last week with the 2021 vintage of PE-backed consumer IPOs, suggesting consumer IPOs were a private equity firm offloading a loser onto you, the public shareholder. As you might expect, given how sugar-high the investing environment was at that … Continue reading Local success, national question mark: Portillo’s expansion and IPO
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