2014년 Top 100 Retailers Chart 2014 - Restaurants

Top 100 Retailers Chart 2014 - Restaurants

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 Popular chain restaurants are getting beat up for all sorts of alleged sins against society, from addicting kids to sugar to exploiting workers. In this environment, it seems amazing that the 13 companies that comprise the restaurant power players were able to do as well as they did last year.

 

Obstinate investors can also make things difficult, as Darden Restaurants discovered. Starboard Value, a New York hedge fund that owns a 6.2 percent share of Darden, threatened to run its own slate of candidates for the restaurateur’s board of directors after management agreed to a $2 billion deal to sell the company’s Red Lobster chain. Starboard would have rather seen Darden do a three-way spinoff involving Red Lobster, Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse.

 

One company that has managed to avoid major squabbles and keep rolling along is Dunkin’ Donuts. Parent Dunkin’ Brands says the doughnuts-and-coffee purveyor will open approximately 400 new locations this year. Dunkin’ is returning to California after shutting down there more than a decade ago when current CEO Nigel Travis took over the reins. The company has signed contracts for nearly 100 restaurants in Southern California, with plans to grow northward.