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title: "Fat Brands Announces Latest Acquisition with Purchase of Native Grill & Wings for $20 Million"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/584e568d-1b3e-4505-86bc-8111f5e456a1
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/fat-brands-announces-latest-acquisition-with-purchase-of-native-grill-wings-for-20-million-2717341
category: "Chicken"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Chicken"
topics: ["Finance & M&A"]
published: 2021-11-30T19:14:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T01:13:38.592Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/e4603ef7974c9cfcd709b42b041b6d957048.jpg
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# Fat Brands Announces Latest Acquisition with Purchase of Native Grill & Wings for $20 Million

**TL;DR:** Fat Brands has agreed to acquire Native Grill & Wings for $20 million. The acquisition is part of Fat Brands' post-pandemic growth strategy, which prioritizes acquisitions to expand its portfolio.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2021-11-30. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/fat-brands-announces-latest-acquisition-with-purchase-of-native-grill-wings-for-20-million-2717341).*

## Story

Fat Brands , one of the industry’s largest franchisors, has agreed to acquire the 23-unit chicken franchise Native Grill & Wings for $20 million from Wingtime LLC, a subsidiary of Cybeck Capital Partners LLC, the company announced last week. The announcement comes as the franchisor continues to prioritize acquisitions as a key post-pandemic growth strategy, entering both new categories and expanding its existing sectors. Native Grill & Wings will become the third chicken-wing concept in Fat Brands’ portfolio.

"With the chicken wing sector growing in popularity throughout the pandemic, we knew that we wanted to continue developing our portfolio further into this category by bringing in a brand that would complement our existing wing concepts," Andy Wiederhorn , Fat Brands president and CEO said in the press release. "Native Grill & Wings has been on our radar for some time, given its ability to remain nimble and deliver strong systemwide sales growth over the past year."

Native Grill & Wings marks the fourth acquisition for Fat Brands this year alone — the company bought Global Franchise Group in July for $442.5 million, Twin Peaks in October for $300 million and Fazoli's in November for $130 million. Now, Fat Brands will feature over 2,300 franchised and corporate-owned stores globally with systemwide sales of about $2.3 billion, the press release states.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- franchise expansion (topic)
- acquisition (topic)
- growth strategy (topic)
- Fat Brands (company)
- Twin Peaks (company)
- Fazoli's (company)
- Andy Wiederhorn (person)
- Native Grill & Wings (company)
- Fat Brands acquisition of Native Grill & Wings (deal)
- chicken wing sector (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/fat-brands-announces-latest-acquisition-with-purchase-of-native-grill-wings-for-20-million-2717341). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/584e568d-1b3e-4505-86bc-8111f5e456a1).