Dave's hot chicken sold to Roark Capital...owner of SUBWAY, ARBYS, BW3, CULVER'S, DUNKIN, CARL'S JR, JIMMY JOHNS, CINNABON, MOE'S, SONIC & other trash

[Secure Da Bag]

Lemme go start a food truck.

Lemee go start learning how to cook.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

I had it a few weeks ago for the first time. The chicken has no flavor like Raising Cane’s.

 

[Robert California]

Jimmy John's and Buffalo wild wings are garbage now smh

Culver's is still good, but they only sold a minority share of the company

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Dave's Hot Chicken sold to Subway owner Roark Capital in a $1 billion deal

Dave’s Hot Chicken said Monday it has been acquired by private equity firm Roark Capital in a deal valued at $1 billion.

apnews.com

Roark :: Current Investments

www.roarkcapital.com

From a food truck to a BILLION in 8 years

If you like Dave's Hot Chicken...think of how good some the restaurants in the thread title were. And how trash they are NOW.

All the DHC spots in my area (DFW) are rated between 2.5 and 3.5 stars on Yelp....was it ever that good?

There's a hot chicken spot I like that's more "mom & pop", but the only drawback is their weird azz schedule where you gotta check carefully for their hours.

 

[Brandsdale]

Meh, good for them cause i be hearing its mid. I used to live by one and never copped cause they prices were dumb

subway def got worse tho. Cold cut combo taste like watery cardboard now

 

[247Alex]

armos whipping up mid chicken - good for them I guess

 

[downtheline]

Dunkin’ has good coffee, donuts are garbage though

 

[Patrick Kane]

I fukks with Dave’s - good chicken, nice sandwiches but a little small. The one near me is filled with Indians working there not that I mind but it just has a very rank/foul smell every time I go in there so I haven’t had it in awhile and it’s expensive for what you get. The sauce is fire though

Drizzy bout to get a crazy payout from this

 

[Human Torch]

Had Dave’s once or twice…it was aite.

Late 90’s/early 2000’s Cinnabon was Goated though

 

[JadeB]

Not Dave's It was only place open after a night out in Pacific Beach!

 

[Windows 91]

Never liked hot chicken like that, always dry as hell.

 

[Luke Cage]

I think it's a bad move for their portfolio. If their goal was to scale in order to be competitive, then it was a great idea for them to buy Subway ,Jimmy John's, Arby's, Moe's, and Culver's. these are all sandwich places so they can use one supplier and negotiate prices. Even the sauces you would use on the various sandwiches are more or less the same with the exception of Arby's.


Now adding a fried chicken place to the mix is stupid. It doesn't mesh with their existing portfolio at all. Same could be said for dunkin' donuts

The move actually makes sense when you look at the current trend. Every fast food franchise is moving towards chicken now. We all remember the chicken sandwich war during covid when popeyes came through, people are eating less and less beef and the culture is shifting more towards chicken, Mcdonalds just started selling chicken strips, taco bell is selling chicken nuggets now, pizza hut over a decade ago invested in a wing restaurant. new chicken chains seem to be popping over the past few years or expanding as well. Wingstop used to be regional now its all over. Same with Raising Canes.
They got all these sandwich businesses, but like everyone else they are seeing chicken chains as the future. See they are buying this one as way to give a piece of that. The current trend regardless of what kind of food you sell right now is chicken.

 

[ORDER_66]

Crazy this corporation buying up everything...

 

[drifter]

Once PE steps in and buys you can kiss it goodbye. Jersey Mike's just got bought too, shouldn't be too much longer until the wheels fall off on it

I was around when Panera was bought by the group that owns Krispy Kreme. They came in and shrunk employee head count and it was calculated, an example was you'd get more rewards faster if you ordered online or at the kiosk instead of the cashier/drive thru this was to start geting rid of cashiers. Managers had to take up more work on top of what they do and they could use that to get rid of the dining room staff, etc. Started using cheaper ingredient and suppliers, even the bakers which are separate from the store staff allegedly got fukked around.

All of that is way different than the orientation videos you had to watch when you joined from the founders before getting bought out. The ingredients gets cheaper to make, the portions smaller, and the price goes up a little more and more each quarter. Capitalism's working like a charm I guess.

 

[kt773]

Cac

You want dialogue over fast food you fat bytch Bet