Del Frisco CEO: Fast Forward After Fast Casual Acquisition Bartaco

As large restaurant chains survey the industry in search of smaller acquisitions, Del Frisco Restaurant Group got a jump on the competition when it made its move earlier this year. The chain bought Barteca, which included Barcelona Wine Bar and Bartaco, a fast casual taco chain, in June 2018 for $325 million in cash, and quickly got to work with closing underperforming locations and charting a new path of growth. At Bartaco, that means measured expansion in markets that make sense for the brand. Del Frisco's CEO Norman Abdallah said on the company's third qu