{"id":6589,"date":"2009-10-30T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T20:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6589"},"modified":"2009-10-30T13:41:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T20:41:27","slug":"rubios-says-no-thank-you-to-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6589","title":{"rendered":"Rubio&#8217;s Says No Thank You To Buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/rubios_logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/rubios_logo.jpg','popup','width=193,height=88,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/rubios_logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"91\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Rubios Logo\" \/><\/a>Looks like the ownership of <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em>-based Mexican fast-casual chain <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubios.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rubio&#8217;s Restaurants Inc<\/a><\/strong>. is not going to be sold after all, according to The Deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mexican-themed casual dining chain Rubio&#8217;s Restaurants Inc. said late Thursday, Oct. 29, it rejected an $80 million buyout offer from shareholder <strong>Alex Meruelo<\/strong> and private equity firm <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CAsQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.llcp.com%2F&amp;ei=7k7rSvPbM5W6Noj8rYQM&amp;usg=AFQjCNE6sOLInskUlwmki6w5UezsWU_QzQ\" target=\"_blank\">Levine Leichtman Capital Partners<\/a><\/strong>. Rubio&#8217;s board said the $8 per share bid, announced Oct. 14, was not in the best interest of its stockholders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But that isn&#8217;t stopping the company from looking for other buyers who may offer more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedeal.com\/dealscape\/2009\/10\/rubios_restaurants_rejects_tak.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Deal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the ownership of Carlsbadistan-based Mexican fast-casual chain Rubio&#8217;s Restaurants Inc. is not going to be sold after all, according to The Deal. Mexican-themed casual dining chain Rubio&#8217;s Restaurants Inc. said late Thursday, Oct. 29, it rejected an $80 million buyout offer from shareholder Alex Meruelo and private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6590,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions\/6590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}