{"id":14235,"date":"2017-10-24T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=14235"},"modified":"2017-10-24T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T21:00:11","slug":"why-ma-is-hot-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/why-ma-is-hot-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Why M&#038;A is Hot Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Because the restaurant business is a relatively safe business, ie. it survives rough economic times as &#8220;everyone enjoys going out to dinner&#8221;, merger and acquisitions (M&#038;A for short)have always went on. Now we have seen huge companies, like BurgerKing, swallowing up successful fast food chains, like Popeye&#8217;s, becoming all the rage in the industry. There are different opinions as to whether or not this is a positive or negative trend in this complicated and huge industry.<\/p>\n<p id=\"takeawayheader\">Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">bigger restaurant chains are taking over and buying out smaller restaurant chains<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">The restaurant business is a good business to invest in because there are always consumers despite the economy<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">it is good for restaurants to buy smaller similar restaurants and implement the bigger restaurants ideas into the smaller restaurant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;Limited capital, real estate, and market share suggest that, like the rule of the jungle, the proven concepts will succeed, often at the expense of their competitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"readmoretext\">Read more: <\/span><a id=\"source\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/finance\/why-ma-hot-again\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/finance\/why-ma-hot-again<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"task_trail\" style=\"display:none\">(abstract 3HRWUH63QU2T92IEPGHO2WGVTS65N4 3TVSS0C0E10N4I0B8FVBPFVK9ENWTV A3LUYFIBZIN204)(authorquote 3DWGDA5POF47TPQ4QK139NXR3G9V11 3NGMS9VZTLIBARWFN6GM4NUJN22FFL A1OBB3PWYWK9KK)(keypoints 3IWA71V4TIGU40WWW5E2S4LTR3JX6S 3EA3QWIZ4IV53NG6JYRWOOMCU46ITT A2ETEQV2MAQM1X)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the restaurant business is a relatively safe business, ie. it survives rough economic times as &#8220;everyone enjoys going out to dinner&#8221;, merger and acquisitions (M&#038;A for short)have always went on. Now we have seen huge companies, like BurgerKing, swallowing up successful fast food chains, like Popeye&#8217;s, becoming all the rage in the industry. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}