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A big year for restaurant acquisitionsA big year for restaurant acquisitions

With one month left, 33 restaurant companies have changed hands this year

Jonathan Maze, Senior Financial Editor

December 1, 2017

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With one month left in the year, 2017 has been a remarkably active period for restaurant industry mergers and acquisitions.

How active? There have been at least 33 deals for restaurant brand operators this year, not including acquisitions of small chains with fewer than 10 locations. Here’s a look at every one of the restaurant companies trading hands this year.

Contact Jonathan Maze at [email protected]

Follow him on Twitter: @JonathanMaze

About the Author

Jonathan Maze

Senior Financial Editor, Nation's Restaurant News

Jonathan Maze covers finance for Nations Restaurant News, as well as restaurant chains based in the Midwest.

Jonathan came to NRN in 2014 after seven years covering restaurants for Franchise Times Magazine and the Restaurant Finance Monitor. There, he created an award-winning blog that reported on and analyzed the restaurant industry. He is routinely quoted in various mainstream press articles, including the Associated Press, Washington Post, Orlando Sentinel, Denver Post and Yahoo! Finance. He lives in a suburb of Minneapolis with his wife, two children and their cat.

Reach Jonathan at [email protected], or by phone at 651 633-6526.

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