Nothing whets the appetite like Big Food Chain consolidation.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
By Frank Landymore<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re one step closer to the final consolidation of America\u2122 into a single unified corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Thursday, the Financial Times<\/em> reported<\/a> that centibillion dollar coffee titan Starbucks<\/a> has explored a takeover of decabillion dollar Chipotle Mexican Grill, in a venti-sized tie-up that would undoubtedly be the largest ever in the restaurant sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s unclear if Starbuck\u2019s takeover plans are still in the works and if it\u2019s submitted a formal offer to Chipotle. But sources familiar with the matter tell the FT<\/em> that the caf\u00e9 behemoth has been working with advisers on a takeover proposal for the burrito chain for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The revelation had a curious effect on the involved company\u2019s stocks. Starbucks\u2019 fell by as much as 6.7 percent, before stabilizing at 0.4 percent down. Chipotle, conversely, shot up by 6.2 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That such a takeover is being considered may be a reflection of the current regulatory climate, with the Trump administration taking a laissez-faire approach to antitrust laws. (Starbucks has a monstrous market cap of roughly $107 billion, and Chipotle is no slouch with a $42.0 billion share of the pie.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n President Donald Trump personally intervened<\/a> in a Department of Justice case that could\u2019ve resulted in the breakup of the Ticketmaster and Live Nation over live ticket sales. The administration also didn\u2019t stand in the way of Paramount Skydance\u2019s recent $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, consolidating two colossi of Hollywood. (That\u2019s not to mention Trump facilitating a cartel-esque safety agreement<\/a> between top AI companies to control the pace of model development.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Experts are skeptical that a takeover between Starbucks, a coffee chain, and Chipotle, a burrito chain, would make much sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sharon Zackfia, an analyst at William Blair, said that it would entail \u201cno obvious revenue synergies,\u201d beyond weird mash-ups like offering customers, say, a grande Iced Pumpkin Cream Shaken Espresso with their guac-laden burrito bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInvestors would likely heavily question the rationale and whether such a move signals that management has less confidence in Starbucks\u2019 future growth prospects,\u201d she said in a note, per the FT<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And as the big megacorps take over food chains, the poisoning ramps up under the guise of cost savings. Worth noting, the COVID shutdowns closed a lot of mom and pop restaurants increasing market share for the megacorp chains, and where that stopped inflation took over. Only a few large chains that remain under private […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19022,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19021\/revisions\/19022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/starbucks-considers-buying-chipotle-consolidation.jpg?quality=85&w=1152\")