Week in Review: Fast casual’s good year, Dave's gets sold, El Pollo Loco’s potential buyer and more
Restaurant Business
JUNE 6, 2025
It caps a meteoric rise for the fast-casual chicken chain, which launched as a popup in a Los Angeles parking lot in 2017 and opened its first "real" restaurant a year later. Daves Hot Chicken was sold to Roark Capital in a deal valued at $1 billion. The chain had 245 units and systemwide sales of nearly $617 million as of last year.
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