Industry: Restaurants

Sector: Consumer Cyclical

Muscle Maker, Inc. owns, operates, and franchises Muscle Maker Grill, SuperFit Foods meal prep, and Pokemoto Hawaiian Poke restaurants. The company operates a fast-casual restaurant that specializes in preparing protein-based meals featuring chicken, seafood, pasta, hamburgers, wraps, and flat breads, as well as entre salads and sides, protein shakes, and fruit smoothies. It also operates under the Meal Plan AF, Muscle Maker Burger Bar, Bowls Deep, Burger Joe's, Wrap It Up, Salad Vibes, Mr. T's House of Boba, and Gourmet Sandwich brand names. In addition, the company offers Muscle Maker meal prep/plans to consumers through direct- to-consumer using musclemakerprep.com. It operates restaurants in California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, as well as in Kuwait. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in League City, Texas.

Muscle Maker, Inc. is evaluated using Mavefund's quality framework: growing earnings, durable profit margins, conservative leverage, strong return on equity, and disciplined share repurchases.