Tracked deals
6
6 tracked deals across 2021-2025.
Operating Company
Business Services
Five Star Breaktime Solutions
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Formerly known as Five Star Breaktime Solutions (formerly Southern Refreshment Services), Five Star Food Service, Five Star Food Service (formerly Canteen Service Company)
Southeast provider of on-site food and beverage solutions for employers and other commercial, institutional, and educational locations, including breakroom markets/micro markets, full-line vending, office coffee, filtered water, pantry and catering services.
- Focus Areas
- Vending services, Micro-markets, Office coffee services
- Website
- www.fivestarbreaktime.com
Recent pace
0
0 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.
Deal mix
Buyout
5 buyout · 1 divestiture
Five Star Breaktime Solutions Acquisition Volume by Year
Last 3 years
Supporting Data
Recent Transactions
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April 7, 2025
- Buyer
- Five Star Breaktime Solutions, Canteen North America, Various local Canteen franchise operators
- Target
- Buffalo Rock Company's full-line vending operations
- Seller
- Buffalo Rock Company
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Location
- Alabama, United States
- Type
- Divestiture
Five Star Breaktime Solutions, Canteen North America and several local Canteen franchise operators have acquired Buffalo Rock Company's full-line vending operations across Alabama, West Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. Buffalo Rock divested the business so it can focus on its core Pepsi and Keurig Dr Pepper bottling operations while the buyers expand their breakroom, vending and micro-market footprints in the region.
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February 14, 2025
- Buyer
- Five Star Breaktime Solutions
- Target
- KBS Vending, LLC
- Seller
- Kent Smith
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Location
- Ohio, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Five Star Breaktime Solutions, a Chattanooga-based breakroom and vending operator, has acquired KBS Vending, LLC from founder Kent Smith, expanding Five Star’s footprint in the Dayton, Ohio market. The deal transfers ownership as the founder retires and will integrate KBS Vending’s roughly 50-account local business into Five Star’s regional operations.
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September 5, 2024
- Buyer
- Five Star Breaktime Solutions
- Target
- Top of the Line Food Service (TOTL Food Service)
- Seller
- Tom Williams and family
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Location
- Kentucky, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Five Star Breaktime Solutions has acquired Top of the Line (TOTL) Food Service, a Louisville-based multi-route vending, micro-market and office coffee services provider founded by Tom Williams. The deal expands Five Star's footprint in Kentucky and transfers several TOTL employees to Five Star as the founder retires.
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September 3, 2024
- Buyer
- Five Star Breaktime Solutions
- Target
- Cool Springs Refreshments LLC
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Location
- Tennessee, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Five Star Breaktime Solutions has acquired Cool Springs Refreshments LLC, a Nashville-based vending and micro-market operator founded in 2004 by Robert Venables. The purchase expands Five Star’s footprint across Middle Tennessee, adding nearly 60 customer locations served by about 130 vending machines and micro-markets and enhancing its breakroom services in the Nashville market.
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August 23, 2024
- Buyer
- Five Star Breaktime Solutions
- Target
- Cajun Vending of Houma LLC
- Seller
- The Franklin family (owners of Cajun Vending)
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Location
- Louisiana, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Five Star Breaktime Solutions has acquired Cajun Vending of Houma LLC, a family-owned vending and office coffee service operator based in Houma, Louisiana. The deal expands Five Star's presence across Louisiana's bayou country and brings Cajun Vending's leadership (including Derek Franklin) into Five Star to ensure a seamless transition for customers.
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October 7, 2021
- Buyer
- Five Star Food Service, Refreshments Solutions
- Target
- Gulf Coast Canteen
- Seller
- Greg Breland
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Location
- Alabama, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Five Star Food Service, the largest Canteen franchise, has acquired Gulf Coast Canteen, a Mobile, Alabama-based vending operation, adding branches in Mobile and Pensacola and marking Five Star's entry into Florida. Terms were not disclosed; owner Greg Breland sold the business, while Gulf Coast's Ocean Springs, Mississippi operation will be acquired separately by New Orleans-based Refreshments Solutions.
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Food & Beverage Buyers & Acquisitions
6 tracked deals by Five Star Breaktime Solutions.
Acquisitions in Alabama
2 tracked deals by Five Star Breaktime Solutions.
Acquisitions in Kentucky
1 tracked deal by Five Star Breaktime Solutions.
Acquisitions in Louisiana
1 tracked deal by Five Star Breaktime Solutions.
Acquisitions in Ohio
1 tracked deal by Five Star Breaktime Solutions.
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