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The Restaurant Group That Refuses to Look Like a Chain
BOKA built a national hospitality business by making each restaurant feel singular. Behind the scenes, a shared operating machine lets chefs, designers and service teams do the visible work.
The Steakhouse Where Dinner Comes to You - Until You Say Stop
A two-color coaster, a procession of skewers and a 47-year-old Brazilian ritual became a 122-restaurant growth machine. Fogo de Chão is selling abundance, control and a night out that behaves nothing like an ordinary steakhouse.
Altamarea Group
Ahmass Fakahany walked away from the top of Merrill Lynch to open a seafood restaurant across from Central Park. Two decades later, Altamarea Group runs more than 25 dining rooms on three continents.
OpenTable
OpenTable is the online restaurant-reservation marketplace that connects diners with tables and gives restaurants the software to manage them. Founded in San Francisco in 1998, it pairs a consumer booking app and website with a back-of-house table-management and CRM platform, helping more than 60,000 restaurants worldwide seat roughly 1.9 billion diners a year. It is owned by Booking Holdings, which acquired it in 2014 for $2.6 billion.