Welcome to Duff & Phelps' Restaurant Industry Insights report for the first half of 2011. This issue covers key themes impacting the industry, mergers and acquisitions activity, financing market conditions and restaurant company valuations.
This edition also features an interview with Jason Mozingo, a Managing Director at Centerbridge Capital Partners. Mr. Mozingo discusses Centerbridge’s recent acquisitions of Rock Bottom Restaurants and Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Group which resulted in the formation of CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries, Inc., the integration process and future acquisition and growth plans.