How many of the people putting away one of Panera’s cinnamon crunch bagels or a big hunk of Cheesecake Factory’s Snickers cheesecake ever think about putting some investment dollars into their favorite restaurant? Richard J. Vanden Boogard does.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student has spent much of his time this year analyzing some of this country’s fastest-growing restaurant chains, and he’s come up with two that pass his sniff test.