Brentwood Associates Acquires Majority Interest in Chicken Salad Chick from Eagle Merchant Partners

Meauxmentum Strategies & Investments Acquires Five Chicken Salad Chick Locations in Dallas

September 4, 2025

Restaurants & Hospitality

Meauxmentum Strategies & Investments (MSI) acquired five Chicken Salad Chick locations in the Dallas market, expanding its Chicken Salad Chick portfolio to 21 restaurants across Texas, Oklahoma, and Indiana. The deal strengthens MSI's position as a leading franchisee in Dallas and supports further market development, catering growth, and community engagement.

Brentwood Associates Acquires Majority Interest in Hissho Sushi

May 24, 2022

Restaurants & Hospitality

Brentwood Associates has acquired a majority interest in Hissho Sushi, partnering with Continental Grain Company and co-investors Portfolio Advisors, LLC and Pine Mountain Ventures. The transaction, which buys ownership from Jeff Vinik, Ingleside Investors, founder Philip Maung, Beem Holdings and management, will keep the existing management team in place to drive further growth across Hissho's >2,000 distribution points nationwide.

Brentwood Associates Makes Significant Investment in Service Management Group (SMG)

October 27, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Brentwood Associates has made a significant growth-oriented investment in Service Management Group (SMG) to accelerate product innovation, expand the company's market presence, and support its software-with-a-service (SwaS) model. As part of the transaction SMG appointed Davin Cushman as CEO and founder Andy Fromm transitioned to a passive investor role.

Chicken Salad Chick Acquires Piece of Cake

November 4, 2023

Food & Beverage

Atlanta-based Chicken Salad Chick has acquired Piece of Cake, an iconic local bakery, to expand and standardize its dessert offering across the chain's ~245 restaurants in 18 states. Piece of Cake's ten metro-Atlanta locations (including the airport) will continue operating as usual, founder Melissa Jernigan will remain involved, and roughly 120 Atlanta-area employees will retain their positions.

Brentwood Associates Takes Minority Stake in Snooze

December 17, 2020

Restaurants & Hospitality

Brentwood Associates has made a strategic minority investment in Snooze, the Denver-based breakfast and brunch restaurant chain, joining existing investors Stripes and Alliance Consumer Growth. The undisclosed deal adds Brentwood partner Rahul Aggarwal to Snooze's board and aims to fund nationwide expansion of the 44-unit concept.

High Bluff Capital Partners and FS Investments to Acquire Church's Chicken from FFL Partners

August 2, 2021

Restaurants & Hospitality

High Bluff Capital Partners, supported by investment funds managed by FS Investments, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Church's Chicken from private equity firm FFL Partners. The buyers plan to leverage High Bluff's REGO Restaurant Group platform and FS Investments' structured capital to drive domestic and international expansion of the quick-service chicken chain.