GYG is Australia’s fastest growing quick serve restaurant group, re-inventing the fast-food industry by serving made to order, clean and healthy Mexican food in over 200 stores across Australia, Singapore, Japan and now the USA. We believe GYG will be the McDonald’s of the next generation, re-defining the future of the global QSR industry.
In CEO and founder Steven Marks, we saw a visionary, highly energized founder, that was relentlessly focused on building a culture of customer obsession, food quality and innovation. Steven is still a very large shareholder, aligning his long term interests with ours.
We love the management team’s passion to change the QSR industry globally and re-invent fast food, and combining this bold vision with best in class execution has resulted in a high functioning and deep relationship between the management team and TDM.
TDM invested $44m in 2018 and has since contributed further growth capital to the business to become GYG’s largest shareholder with 40% ownership. Both Tom Cowan and Hilton Brett sit on the board of directors and provide insights in international best-practice systems and processes, strategy, as well as guidance on key executive recruitment.
GYG has grown from one store in Newtown, to scaling to over 200 stores across drive thru and suburban strip store formats in four countries, and now has all the ingredients of becoming a successful global brand that continues to grow for many years to come.
With a current valuation of $1.5b, we continue to be very active in helping the business scale on its journey to becoming a successful ASX listing in the coming years.
