McDonald's China Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

Chowbus is a Chicago-headquartered restaurant technology provider offering a SaaS-based point-of-sale system for U.S. eateries, particularly Asian restaurants. The cloud platform manages orders, payments, inventory, and analytics, with automatic updates included in subscription fees. It serves thousands of locations nationwide through web and mobile interfaces.

Wingstop is a fast casual restaurant concept built around a simple chicken-centric menu. The firm primarily offers bone-in and boneless wings, tenders, and a chicken sandwich, customizable across over 10 flavors. The banner generated $5.3 billion in system sales in 2025 across 3,056 stores, with 85% located in the US. Wingstop largely operates as a franchisor, with 98% of units franchised, and earns revenue largely from collecting royalties and advertising fees paid by franchisees, with a smaller contribution from company-owned restaurant sales.

SpotOn is a San Francisco-headquartered provider of payment processing and restaurant management software tailored for small and midsize businesses. Founded in 2017, the company integrates point-of-sale terminals with online ordering, reservation systems, marketing tools, website builders, and loyalty programs. Its retail solutions handle inventory tracking and e-commerce alongside payment acceptance via partnerships with Visa and Mastercard. SpotOn operates nationwide across the United States, serving sectors like quick-service restaurants and boutique stores through dedicated local support teams.

An investment in wide-moat-rated Endeavour Group provides investors with exposure to one of the most well entrenched dividend-paying businesses in the Australian retail landscape. Following decades of enduring organic growth through store rollouts, Endeavour's off-premises retail segment—with more than 1,700 retail outlets mainly across its Dan Murphy's and BWS brands—accounts for approximately half of all off-premises retail liquor sales within Australia. Endeavour's immense scale in the off-premises retail segment is unrivalled within Australia. Indeed, Endeavour's sales are almost three times larger than its nearest retail competitor, Coles.

Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL operates in agro-industrial and integrated food businesses. The group’s business operations are located throughout Thailand and overseas. The businesses are divided into two main segments namely the livestock business which comprises chicken, duck and pigs and the aquaculture business comprises shrimp and fish. The two main businesses are vertically integrated, starting from sourcing raw materials for animal feed production, manufacturing animal feed, breeding animals, farming animals for commercial purposes, primary processing meat, producing ready-to-eat food products, and including operating food retail outlets and restaurants.

Dutch Bros Inc. is a publicly held drive-through coffee chain in the United States, founded in 1992 by Dane and Travis Boersma. It is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, after many years based in Grants Pass, Oregon. The company sells coffee, energy drinks, teas and other beverages through drive-thru shops, operating both company-owned and franchised locations, mainly in the Western United States and as far east as Orlando, Florida. It reported nearly 1,200 shops at the end of the second quarter of 2026 and has stated a target of 2,029 shops in 2029. In 2026 it signed a USD 105 million agreement to acquire up to 65 former Salad and Go drive-thru sites, later becoming the backup bidder when 7 Brew won the auction, and earlier in the year it bought Clutch Coffee Bar's locations in the Carolinas.

Greggs PLC is a U.K.-based company that is principally engaged in manufacturing, distributing, and retailing bakery goods, sandwiches, and drinks under the Greggs brand. The company focuses on the food-on-the-go market. It has a vertically integrated supply network, with its bakeries & delivery network. Greggs operates in two segments: Company-managed retail activities and the Business-to-business channel. The majority of its revenue is generated from the Company-managed retail activities segment, in which the Group sells a consistent range of fresh bakery goods, sandwiches, and drinks in its own shops or via delivery. Sales are made to the general public on a cash basis. All results arise in the United Kingdom.

Jubilant Foodworks Ltd with its subsidiaries, operates as a food service company. It develops and operates quick services restaurants under the Domino’s Pizza, Dunkin’ Donuts, Hong’s Kitchen, Popeyes, and COFFY brand names in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.

Skylark Holdings Co Ltd is engaged in the restaurant business through its group of brands, including Gusto, Bamiyan, Shabu-Yo, Jonathan’s, Yumean, Steak Gusto, and Sukesan. The company operates a single reportable segment, the Restaurant Business, which provides table service to general consumers through various restaurant formats. The business involves sourcing, cooking, and delivering ingredients to stores, maintaining similar economic characteristics across its operations.

The Cheesecake Factory is an upscale casual dining operator that generated $3.8 billion in revenue in 2025. The firm’s sales are mainly derived from its namesake banner (71.6% of revenue), known for its sprawling made-from-scratch menu, including cheesecakes. The firm also operates a bundle of Fox Restaurant Concepts (9.5%), including The Henry and Culinary Dropout, North Italia restaurants (9.2%), and its other segment (9.7%), which encompasses fast-casual, better-for-you Flower Child restaurants, cheesecake sales from its factories, and royalties from 35 international licensed restaurants.

Shake Shack is a fast-casual American chain restaurant, generating $2.2 billion in system sales across 373 US company-owned restaurants ($1.4 billion) and 286 licensed units ($838 million), with the latter largely situated in international markets and travel hubs. The firm derives the bulk of its revenue from the direct sales of higher-end burgers, chicken sandwiches, crinkle fries, shakes, custard, and limited-time offerings, while receiving royalty payments from licensed locations. The brand emphasizes its high-quality ingredients, such as all-natural, along with hormone- and antibiotic-free proteins.

Americana Restaurants International PLC is a diversified, pan-regional restaurant platform operator. It operates iconic brands such as KFC, Pizza Hut, Hardee's, Krispy Kreme, and TGI Fridays, along with proprietary brands such as Wimpy and Chicken Tikka. The company operates restaurants under a portfolio of different brands across key consumer verticals and occasions, including key Quick Service Restaurant categories (chicken, burger, and pizza), fast casual, casual dining, indulgence, and coffee concepts. Its reportable business segments are: the main Gulf Cooperation Council countries, which include KSA, Kuwait, and UAE, Lower Gulf countries (comprising Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain), North Africa (Egypt and Morocco), and Others (Kazakhstan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan).

Toridoll Holdings Corp owns and operates more than 1,000 restaurants Japan. Toridoll has several different restaurant brands, but most are similar in serving Japanese or other Asian cuisine and using an open-kitchen concept where customers can see the food as it is prepared. Toridoll’s primary brand is Marugame Seimen, which specializes in Sanuki udon and accounts for more than 85% of the company’s total sales. Marugame Seimen has nearly 800 locations in Japan and more than 100 locations in a dozen other countries. Other significant brands in Japan include Toridoll, Nagata Honjo-ken, and Marusho-ya. Significant brands outside Japan include Wok to Walk, Tokyo Table, and Boat Noodle.

Jollibee Foods Corp is engaged in operating and franchising quick-service restaurants (QSRs). The company has three business segments: the Food Service segment, which is involved in the operation of QSRs and the manufacture of food products to be sold to JFC Group-owned and franchised QSR outlets; the Franchising segment, which is involved in franchising the JFC Group's QSR store concepts; and the Support Services segment, which provides various services mainly to the Jollibee Group's independent franchisees. The Group's geographical segments are based on the location of the assets producing revenues in the Philippines and in other locations, including PRC, USA, Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Italy, the UK, UAE, Hong Kong, Macau, Brunei, Taiwan, and South Korea.

Jersey Mike's Subs Inc is a fast-casual restaurant franchisor operating more than 3,300 locations across the United States and Canada. It offers sandwiches and related food products, with its menu featuring freshly sliced meats and cheeses and a range of recipes.

Mitchells & Butlers PLC operates and manages pubs and pub restaurants in the United Kingdom and Germany. The group's properties operate under the brands Vintage Inns, Stonehouse, Toby Carvery, Harvester, Sizzling Pub Co., All Bar One, Ember Inns, and others. Its geographic segments include the UK and Germany of which it generates the majority of its revenue from the UK.

Gousto is a London-headquartered meal kit delivery service providing recipe boxes with pre-portioned ingredients and chef-developed instructions for British households. Offering over 100 weekly options from Thai curries to Italian risottos using seasonal produce, it delivers chilled nationwide since 2012. The service accommodates dietary needs like vegetarian and gluten-free with flexible subscriptions.

Koubei is a Hangzhou-based local-services platform within Alibaba Group that helps Chinese consumers discover, book and pay for in-store dining, entertainment and other lifestyle services. Through the Koubei app and Alipay, users find restaurants and merchants, read reviews, redeem offers and order ahead, while merchants use its tools for marketing, membership and digital store operations. The platform reuses the Koubei.com brand of a lifestyle review site founded in 2004 by Li Zhiguo that Alibaba later absorbed. Koubei was relaunched in June 2015 as a 50-50 joint venture of Alibaba and Ant Financial, each contributing RMB 3 billion, with an initial focus on food and beverage merchants. In January 2017 it raised $1.1 billion from Silver Lake, CDH Investments, Yunfeng Capital and Primavera Capital, its first outside capital. In 2018 Alibaba placed Koubei alongside the Ele.me food-delivery platform in a combined local-services company under a single management team and moved to consolidate it. Koubei earns revenue from merchant marketing and services rather than from delivery.