Providing non-dilutive capital to restaurant brands.
FASTFARE will be among the first companies to create a diversified restaurant investment platform utilizing a proven royalty investment model.
The advantages of raising capital through the sale of a royalty on your brand.
The restaurant sector is home to numerous emerging and leading brands that face challenges in accessing substantial capital. FASTFARE offers non-dilutive capital support to brands with strong potential and provide them with the necessary financial resources to thrive.
The sale of a royalty can address the capital needs of restaurant operators without equity dilution.
How it works
Royalties are an ideal product for the restaurant sector.
Royalty = Gross Sales × Royalty Rate
The restaurant industry already widely utilizes royalty structures through franchising, making restaurant operators inherently familiar with the structure of a royalty.
The restaurant sector's predictable, recurring, and growing revenue streams from well-established, scalable brands are ideal for royalty-based investments.
FASTFARE provides up front capital
FASTFARE receives, in cash, a percentage of the brand's gross sales from a pre-determined set of stores
Capital structure optimization
A royalty typically sits between equity and debt in the capital stack, providing brands an additional path to accessing capital that offers greater flexibility than debt, and a relatively lower cost of capital than equity.
What we look for
And what makes your brand a candidate.
We partner with established restaurant brands that demonstrate strong unit economics, proven operating systems, and sustainable growth trajectories.
Our ideal partners are brands seeking capital to accelerate growth while maintaining control and avoiding traditional equity dilution or restrictive debt covenants.
EXPOSURE
Top Line Gross Sales
SECTOR / SEGMENTS
Quick Service Restaurants (QSR) Fast Casual Restaurants (FCR) Full Service Restaurants (FSR) Primary focus is QSR and FCR Emerging to Mid-Tier
MIN GROSS SALES
$40+ million
BRAND LIFE CYCLE
Established brands with critical mass and a meaningful operating history
GEOGRAPHY
North America
USE OF PROCEEDS FOR TARGET INVESTMENTS
Brand dependent, including growth capital, recapitalizations, management buyouts, and shareholder restructurings FASTFARE is focused on capital structure alignment – and not liquidity for founders
NOTE
FASTFARE may consider special situations outside of the above criteria. Structures can be customizable to accommodate the specific needs of various brands.
FASTFARE will be
among the first companies to create a diversified restaurant investment platform utilizing a proven royalty investment model.
$800B+ MARKET⁽¹⁾ WITH LIMITED ROYALTY PROVIDERS
The U.S. restaurant market is $800B+, projected to be over $1.4T in 2031⁽¹⁾, yet the entire sector lacks a specialized, royalty-focused investment platform providing non-dilutive capital to the restaurant industry.
A substantial untapped market for FASTFARE to scale quickly with first mover advantage.
EXPERT LEADERSHIP TEAM AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Management and Board comprised of experienced professionals with deep knowledge of restaurant operations, royalties, and capital markets, capable of expertly sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and monitoring royalty acquisition opportunities.
VALIDATED INVESTMENT MODEL
Royalties as an asset class have proven successful, delivering consistent and attractive returns in sectors such as pharmaceuticals (DRI Healthcare), entertainment (ICM Crescendo Music Royalty Fund), sustainability, (CVW Sustainable Royalties), oil & gas (Atlas Energy), and mining (Franco-Nevada).
SCALABLE, ASSET LIGHT MODEL
New royalty streams add revenue, not overhead, enabling efficient and profitable growth. High-margin structure enhances free cash flow yield and investor returns. Post-transaction responsibilities primarily consist of streamlined royalty payment administration.
RISK MITIGATED INDUSTRY EXPOSURE
Gross sales royalties avoid operational exposure and ease inflation risk. A diversified portfolio provides top-line cash flows across multiple brands in varying geographies.
(1) Mordor Intelligence (aggregation of United States quick service restaurant and full service restaurant markets)
A near $1 trillion market, projected to be $1.4 trillion in 2031(1).
The United States is the largest restaurant market in the world with $809B of sales in 2025(1). FASTFARE will focus on QSR and FCR, although FSR will be considered.
(1) Mordor Intelligence (aggregation of United States quick service restaurant and full service restaurant markets)
QSR / FCR Market Share.
Market fragmentation provides significant opportunity set for FASTFARE
Leadership — Experienced, accomplished, connected.
The FASTFARE team possesses decades of deep, domain-specific expertise spanning restaurant operations, franchising, royalties, accounting, and brand building, and an extensive industry network of brands and industry service providers.
Proposed Management
Simon Lileikis
President, CEO, and Director
25 years in the retail and hospitality industry.
President, Subway Developments 2000, Canada's largest Subway developer with 850+ locations and C$500M in top line sales.
Chairman, President & CEO, Opa of Greece (Opa) from 2012 – 2016. Grew net earnings by 86% and increased shareholder dividends by 145%. Under Simon’s leadership, Opa’s average unit volumes increased by 22% and the organization achieved 10 straight quarters of positive comparable same store sales growth.
COO, Edo Japan. Responsible for the supervision of all the company’s operations, marketing, supply chain, real estate, franchising, construction and administrative functions. During Simon’s tenure, sales increased from C$20M in 2000 to over C$90M in 2011.
Market Leader, Training Manager and International Store Operations Consultant for the Middle East, Starbucks.
Raminder Brar
Chief Financial Officer
20+ years of experience as a finance executive advising executive teams on strategic growth, capital allocation, financial operations, and risk management.
Most recently, Raminder served as CFO at Genstar Development Company, a company with over $1B of assets, overseeing finance and operations across Canada and the United States. In this role, Raminder led significant financing initiatives, including raising debt and equity capital and refinancing corporate debt facilities, while supporting the company’s long-term growth and expansion strategies. Responsibilities also included investor relations, financial reporting, compliance, cash flow management, and strategic planning across multiple entities.
Prior to Genstar, she held senior finance roles at Grizzly Oil Sands ULC and began her professional career at Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, providing audit and assurance services to clients across the energy, real estate, and financial sectors.
Raminder is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and holds a Master of Professional Accounting degree.
Julian Heppekausen
Vice President, Corporate Development
Trained in law and accounting with 30+ years as a hospitality founder and operator.
Previously, Julian was the CEO Americas, Deus Ex Machina, helping lead global growth, building 26 flagships across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and transforming the Sydney-based brand into a globally recognized lifestyle business with diversified revenue channels. Sold to a consortium led by Federico Minoli (former CEO of Ducati and Bally).
He was also COO, Classic Car Club, managing private bicoastal club operations across New York and expansion into Los Angeles, a Board Member of the California Restaurant Association, and Founder and CEO of Bondi, the first authentic Australian bar and restaurant in the U.S. – growing revenue to over $6M in a short period.
He is also Co-Founder of American Medical Intelligence, an early-stage AI healthcare company, and has structured and advised on multiple investments, acquisitions, and joint ventures across consumer, hospitality, media, and technology sectors. Advisory roles include Sonderhaus and Verve Vintage Motorworks.
Proposed Board of Directors
Akshay Dubey
CEO and Director of CVW Sustainable Royalties (TSXV: CVW), a royalty company focused on the sustainable production of commodities since 2022. He has led the transformation of the Company from a tech developer to a diversified royalty platform culminating in CVW closing on a C$100M equity raise in February 2026.
Akshay has over 15 years of experience originating and structuring investments with a focus on royalty structures in the natural resources and clean tech spaces. Prior to joining CVW, he led BaseCore Metals, a base metals royalty platform, since its inception in 2017 until its sale in July 2022 for $525M.
Previous to BaseCore, Akshay was a Principal within the Natural Resources team at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, where he played a significant role in the fund's C$3.3B acquisition and subsequent set up of the Heritage Royalty platform.
He holds a Bachelors of Business Administration (Hons.) from the Schulich School of Business at York University.
Amit Kapur
A strategic CFO and Board Member with experience across PE and pension-backed platforms and public company leadership in Canada and the United States.
Amit most recently served as CFO of DRI Healthcare Trust (TSX: DHT), a royalty-based investment platform focused on pharmaceutical royalties, where he led a comprehensive strategic review and rebuilt the governance model, frameworks, processes and go-to-market strategy. Previously, he was CFO of Enwave Energy Corporation, an OTPP and IFM Investors company, VP and Treasurer of ATS Corporation, and spent a decade at GE in a variety of executive roles across Canada and the United States, having begun his career at EY.
He currently serves on the Board of Hamilton Health Sciences and Armah Sports Company as Audit Committee Chair at both, and on the Board of Sheridan College. He holds an MBA from Cornell University, designations as a Chartered Accountant (Ontario), CPA (Illinois), is a CFA Charterholder, and completed the Corporate Directors Program at Harvard Business School.
Paul Murphy III
40+ years of experience in the restaurant industry, with a proven track record of leading successful brand transformations and driving same-store sales growth.
He has served as CEO and board member of several publicly traded restaurant companies, including Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Noodles & Company (Executive Chairman), Del Taco Restaurants, and Einstein Noah Restaurant Group. During his tenure, both Del Taco and Einstein Noah successfully completed public offerings. He also served on the board of Checkers Restaurants.
Paul is particularly known for his expertise in turning around underperforming brands. He was recruited to lead transformations at Red Robin, Noodles & Company, and Del Taco, where he and his teams developed comprehensive strategies aligning brand positioning with operational execution, while strengthening financial performance.
He currently advises a private equity firm and a family office on evaluating and executing restaurant investment opportunities, bringing an investor’s perspective to strategy, capital allocation, and growth.
Kelly Roddy
Since assuming the role of CEO and President of WOWorks in August 2019, Kelly has led the company to becoming a prominent multi-brand franchisor, expanding WOWorks from 90 stores in 2019 to over 240.
Previously, Kelly served as President of Schlotzsky's Franchisor, an entity within the FOCUS Brands portfolio. He increased average unit volumes from $600k to $1M and EBITDA from $10M to nearly $40M.
Kelly has 21 years of additional executive management experience at H-E-B, Scholastic and Walmart. At H-E-B, he led their largest operations division overseeing $8B in revenue.
Kelly is an active member in the restaurant industry and has spoken multiple times at the International Franchise Association, International Foodservice Manufacturers Association, Franchise Springboard, Fast Casual, Restaurant Finance and the IFMA Chain Operators Exchange.
Kelly is also active on several boards, including Baylor University's Advisory Board for the school's marketing program; the National Restaurant Association's Advisory President Council; and IFMA's Operations Council.
David Vankka
President of ICM Asset Management, a C$2.0B+ multi strategy alternative investment firm. He is the Portfolio Manager of the ICM Crescendo Music Royalty Fund which is an evergreen fund investing in a diversified portfolio of music royalties from recording artist and songwriters. Since 2020 he has led the growth of ICM’s music royalty fund from C$5M to ~C$400M. This includes the acquisition of approximately 50 distinct catalogues containing over 6,500 songs across a diverse range of artists, genres and royalty types.
He brings 30 years of experience in investment banking, trading, and capital markets with roles at Canaccord Genuity, Dundee Securities, and Peters & Co, in addition to co-founding Tristone Capital, a global energy investment bank (since acquired). He also was vice president of risk management at Gluskin Sheff + Associates and started his career at Deloitte & Touche.
David holds the designations of ICD.D from the Institute of Corporate Directors, CPA, CA and is a CFA Charterholder.
Proposed Strategic Advisors
John Boris
An entrepreneurial executive and experienced board member with more than 25 years of C-suite leadership and a proven track record of scaling companies, driving profitability, building beloved brands, creating strong corporate cultures and delivering robust shareholder returns.
John’s previous executive roles include SVP and global Chief Growth Officer for Tripadvisor, CEO of IfOnly (acquired by Mastercard), SVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Shutterfly (acquired by Apollo Global Management) and EVP, Managing Director of Lonely Planet.
He is currently Chairman of the Board of Feastables Inc., one of the world’s fastest growing chocolate companies founded by Jimmy Donaldson (also known as Mr. Beast), Executive Chairman of Cranky Health Pty Ltd, Director of Webjet, and President & CGO of Big Red Group Pty Ltd.
Jeff Mahin
A creator of many successful restaurant concepts across America including newly opened Chomp Donuts & Coffee, Stella Barra, Summer House, and Do-Rite Donuts, and spent 15 years as a chef partner with Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises (LEYE).
Jeff has accumulated several industry accolades, including Zagat’s "30-under-30" list in 2012, Forbes’s "30-under-30" list of hospitality industry up-and-comers in 2012, and Restaurant Hospitality’s "13 to watch in 2013"; as well as the host of Cooking Channel’s Farmer’s Market Flip.
Nicolas (Nick) Mindel
Helped found Amberstone, a $45M CPG fund, as a partner in 2020. Previously, co-founded Trail Post Ventures in 2017, a fundless sponsor focused on restaurants and CPG. Before Trail Post, he was with Piper Jaffray, a leading, middle-market, investment bank, as a member of the consumer investment banking team, working on transactions in the restaurant and food/beverage spaces.
Nick began his career with North Point Advisors, a leading Restaurant focused Investment Bank leading transactions in Church's Chicken, Flynn Restaurant Group, Caribou Coffee, and Papa Murphy's Pizza.
Born and raised in California and attended the University of Southern California, earning a BA in both Economics and Political Science. Also earned an MBA from USC, graduated Dean’s List, and was chosen as the recipient of the Provident Investment Counsel Endowed Scholarship.
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