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Private equity firm boosts Tin Drum Asiacafe's growthPrivate equity firm boosts Tin Drum Asiacafe's growth

BIP Opportunities Fund has taken a minority interest in the Pan-Asian restaurant concept

Erin Dostal, Associate Editor

November 5, 2012

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Atlanta-based private equity firm BIP Opportunities Fund has announced that it will take a minority interest in Tin Drum Asiacafe, a fast-casual, Pan-Asian restaurant concept.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“Of course, it’s about growth,” said Steven Chan, chief executive officer for the Atlanta-based concept, noting that Tin Drum will speed up growth during the first quarter of next year as a result of BIP's investment.

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As of publication, Tin Drum has nine locations in Georgia and one in Alabama, with an eleventh location opening in Atlanta on Sept. 9. Chan said by...

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Erin Dostal

Associate Editor, Nation's Restaurant News

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Erin Dostal covers the Southeast U.S. at Nation’s Restaurant News. She previously worked at Direct Marketing News where she covered trends in database marketing and e-commerce. Prior to moving to New York in 2011, she was a reporter at Las Vegas Sun and a launching editor of VEGAS INC, a business magazine covering the largest industries in Southern Nevada: tourism, gaming, entertainment, real estate and—of course—restaurants. She holds a journalism degree from Northwestern University.

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