Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta to take restaurant, gaming empire public
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Tilman Fertitta, owner of Landry s Inc. and the Houston Rockets, said Feb. 1 he would merge his Landry’s and Golden Nugget holdings with a ‘blank check’ company, valuing the business at $6.6 billion. Fertitta will maintain control, the Rockets and other assets are not part of the deal.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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The Golden Nugget in Las Vegas. Tilman Fertitta, owner of the Golden Nugget casinos, Landry s Inc. and the Houston Rockets, said Feb. 1 he would merge his Landry’s and Golden Nugget holdings with a ‘blank check’ company, valuing the business at $6.6 billion. Fertitta will maintain control, the Rockets and other assets are not part of the deal.BEATRICE DE GEA / TPNShow MoreShow Less
Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta to take restaurant, gaming empire public
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Tilman Fertitta, owner of Landry s Inc. and the Houston Rockets, said Feb. 1 he would merge his Landry’s and Golden Nugget holdings with a ‘blank check’ company, valuing the business at $6.6 billion. Fertitta will maintain control, the Rockets and other assets are not part of the deal.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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The Golden Nugget in Las Vegas. Tilman Fertitta, owner of the Golden Nugget casinos, Landry s Inc. and the Houston Rockets, said Feb. 1 he would merge his Landry’s and Golden Nugget holdings with a ‘blank check’ company, valuing the business at $6.6 billion. Fertitta will maintain control, the Rockets and other assets are not part of the deal.BEATRICE DE GEA / TPNShow MoreShow Less
Wilmington StarNews
If the new restaurants popping up in and around Wilmington are any indication, locals are hungry for seafood.
From Coast Craft Cocktails & Calabash in Carolina Beach to a new food truck from Maya’s Crab Shack in Riegelwood, there are a handful of new fish-focused choices in the area.
One exception is the CBT Burger food truck. It’s the latest venture from chef Bud Taylor, who closed the popular restaurant The Bistro at Topsail in early 2019.
Since then he’s been working as a builder, but missed cooking.
“I thought this would be something fun I could do on the weekends,” he said.
SPAC founders had been looking for quick-service, small-dining-room brands
Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta is reportedly in talks to take his restaurant giant Landry’s Inc. and his Golden Nugget casino holdings public with Fast Acquisition Corp., though the special purpose acquisition had been looking for quick-service brands.
Bloomberg,
in a report last week citing “people with knowledge of the matter,”said Fast Acquisition, which was created last August as a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, was considering raising more than $1 billion to back a possible transaction.
Fertitta’s representatives said he would have no comment on the rumors.
Fast Acquisition Corp. was listed on the New York Stock Exchange last August and set a target to raise $200 million. It was created by Doug Jacob, co-founder of &Pizza and co-CEO of the new blank-check SPAC, with Sandy Beall, the founder of the Ruby Tuesday brand.