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Planning for the “Big Game”

Goliath Consulting

What comes to mind when you hear there is an expected surge of over a million possible guests entering your city for a weekend event? Disbelief? Excitement? Anxiety? How about all three? Having weathered major city-wide events in the past (BCS bowl games, March Madness, even one weekend that merged two huge NCAA football teams, a NASCAR race, and a comic/anime convention) we learned to remain cautiously optimistic towards promises of large influxes of people into our city – you can’t always gues

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Restaurant Industry Growth

Aaron Allen & Associates

We receive thousands of inquiries each year from every corner of the foodservice industry and from all around the globe. There are some common patterns in what we’re being asked. Some of most frequent questions include: What regions and categories are driving growth? What segments are expanding and collapsing? Who is gaining and losing market share?

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Restaurant Investment: Capital Calls

Aaron Allen & Associates

While we expect M&A activity to continue to pick up over the next five years, those leveraging the best insights regarding the evolution of the market landscape to inform a modernized and globally-oriented F&B investment thesis are set to lead (and even create) segments and categories. There’s plenty of capital to put behind foodservice companies, and some that are not even in the radar right now (like those looking to alternative formats and improved unit economic models as well as tra

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