{"id":88,"date":"2010-02-26T22:15:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterstromquist.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2010-02-26T22:15:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:15:21","slug":"lee-bags-carl-karcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Lee Bags Carl Karcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-89\" title=\"carls jr\" src=\"http:\/\/peterstromquist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/carls-jr.jpg\" alt=\"carls jr\" width=\"131\" height=\"122\" \/><strong>CKE, parent of Carl&#8217;s Jr and Hardee&#8217;s picked up by Thomas Lee Partners for\u00a0 close to a billion, including debt assumption.\u00a0 Lee also holds big stakes in Dunkin&#8217; Donuts and Baskin Robbins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the second big food deal this week, with the news that Diamond Foods (DMND) of California has gobbled up Kettle Foods of Oregon (potato chips) for $615 mil.\u00a0 Seller Lion Capital exits w\/ double their investment sale a few years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Snack and &#8220;junk&#8221; foods usually do well in a downturn, although fast food has been challenged &#8211; but CKE has been doing better than most.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CKE, parent of Carl&#8217;s Jr and Hardee&#8217;s picked up by Thomas Lee Partners for\u00a0 close to a billion, including debt assumption.\u00a0 Lee also holds big stakes in Dunkin&#8217; Donuts and Baskin Robbins. This is the second big food deal this week, with the news that Diamond Foods (DMND) of California has gobbled up Kettle Foods&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=88\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lee Bags Carl Karcher<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,28,1],"tags":[848,1389,1404,1699,2013,2094],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}