Chipotle's Pricing Power is Real

(1:00) Three months ago Chipotle's CFO made a bold proclamation regarding the company's pricing power. Chipotle's 4th-quarter results prove he was correct. But how much more can the company raise the price of their menu without lose customers? Jason Moser analyzes the restaurant landscape, including:
- Yum Brands' eye-popping unit growth over the past year
- How the economics of Yum's franchise model stack up against Chipotle's decision to own all of their locations
- Whether Chipotle can get to 7,000 locations

(15:00) Ron Gross discusses the business of acquisitions, including:
- The different ways that companies fund buying another business
- Horizontal vs. vertical acquisitions
- Hostile takeovers
- Whether investors should wait for an acquisition to close before selling their shares

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Host: Chris Hill
Guests: Jason Moser, Ron Gross
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl