Top 5 Restaurant Companies To Buy For 2015

Top 5 Restaurant Companies To Buy For 2015: El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc (LOCO)

El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc., formerly EPL Holdings, Inc., incorporated in 1999, own, operate and franchise restaurants specializing in marinated, flame-grilled chicken. During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2005 (fiscal 2005), the Company's restaurant system had 340 restaurants, consisting of 146 company-operated and 194 franchised restaurants, located principally in California, with additional restaurants in Arizona, Nevada, Texas and Illinois. In fiscal 2005, the Company closed one company-operated and one franchised restaurant and it opened six company-operated and seven franchised restaurants. The Company's restaurant is a freestanding building ranging from approximately 2,200 to 2,600 square feet with seating for approximately 60 customers and offering drive-thru convenience.

The Company's menu features flame-grilled chicken and includes approximately 50 items, most of which it prepares from scratch. The Company serves a range of individual and famil y-size chicken meals, which include flour or corn tortillas, salsas and a range of side orders, such as Spanish rice and pinto beans. In addition, the Company offers a range of Mexican-inspired entrees featuring marinated, flame-grilled chicken as the central ingredient, including its specialty Pollo Bowl, Pollo Salads, signature burritos, chicken quesadillas, chicken tortilla soup and chicken tacos.

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• [By Dimitra DeFotis]

  In related news, fowl is fair fare:El Pollo Loco (LOCO) shares fell 13% and continued their descent in the aftermarket. Shares ofEl Pollo Loco, a quick-serve restaurant concept based in California, soared 56% in its public offering Friday. The craziness prompted MarketWatch to post ratings for fast-food joints, with investors in mind.

• [By WWW.DAILYFINANCE.COM]

  Mark Lennihan/APJack Ma is the founder of Alibaba. There has been no shortage of debutantes on! Wall Street lately. Dozens of companies went public last quarter -- many of them names you know, or that you will know soon. These some of the more intriguing initial public offerings to come out of this past quarter. El Pollo Loco (LOCO) Fast casual has been the place to be for investing in the restaurant industry, and that helped pave the way for this California-based chain specializing in citrus-marinated chicken to go public in July at $15 a share. Investors won't be impressed by its slow yet calculated expansion. It had grown from 398 locations to just 401 in the year leading up to its IPO. However, El Pollo Loco's store-level performance has been impressive. It posted a 5.4 percent increase in comparable-restaurant sales in its first quarter as a public company. That is certainly better than the average fast-food or casual-dining chain out there, once again validating the fast-casual model, where chains offer the convenience of fast food but the quality of traditional casual-dining restaurants. Mobileye (MBLY) The push to develop self-driving cars is really getting traction, a fact that became even more apparent last week when Tesla (TSLA) showed off an updated sedan that uses a dozen sensors to do everything from adjusting speed in accordance with speed limit signs when it's on cruise control to switching lanes automatically when the sensors see an opening in traffic after the driver triggers the turn signal. But clever sensors notwithstanding, self-driving cars won't happen without serious software, and that's where Mobileye comes in. The Israeli company provides software and chips for camera-based advanced driver assistance systems. This will likely become a competitive market in the future, but for now Mobileye is seen as a leading pioneer in self-driving vehicles. Its share price has roughly doubled since it went public at $25 just two months ago. Re

• [By WWW.DAILYFINANCE.COM]

  One of this year's hottest individual public offerings is El Pollo Loco (LOCO). The fast-! casual ch! ain specializing in citrus-marinated grilled chicken has seen its stock roughly double since going public at $15 this summer. There have been several eatery IPOs that have gone stale in recent months, but El Pollo Loco has remained strong. That could all change on Thursday when it reports. It will be the market's first taste of the chicken chain as a public company, and naturally expectations are high when a stock doubles out of the gate. Friday -- At the Movies

• [By Nickey Friedman]

  By now just about everybody has heard of Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG  ) , but few outside California before its IPO had heard of El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ: LOCO  ) . It can be awfully tempting to ditch the seemingly more mature Chipotle chain and try to latch on to the next big thing. But is hitching a ride with the new kid on the Wall Street block really the smart move?

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