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Private-equity groups have long been interested in the restaurant industry, buying up concepts as fast as they came up for sale.
That purchase frequency seemed to slow in 2015. At the very least, private-equity groups found themselves with more competition from foreign buyers.
Consider JAB Holding Co. JAB is the investing company of the Reimann Family out of Germany. The company has been aggressively shopping for foodservice concepts. In late 2014, for instance, JAB bought Einstein Noah Restaurant Group in a $374 million deal. This purchase came on top of deals for Peet’s Coffee & Tea, and Caribou Coffee in previous years.
In 2015, JAB bought Intelligentsia Coffee and Stumptown Roasters.
As a result of those deals, JAB’s domestic foodservice...
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