Four high school dropouts including a former standup comedian and line cook, rapper Drake and the son of an oil billionaire are all winners in Dave's sale to Roark Capital.

Dave's started as a parking lot pop-up in Los Angeles eight years ago by a few friends with $900. It just sold for nearly $1 ...

Three young friends set up a fried chicken pop up in a Hollywood parking lot. The rest is the stuff of legend.

Dave’s Hot Chicken first launched in a Los Angeles parking lot. On Monday, Roark Capital bought a majority stake in a deal ...

CBRE arranged the sale of a 200,000-sq.-ft. industrial property located at 18045 Rowland Street in the City of Industry, ...

Roark’s investment follows a boom for chicken-focused restaurants and a rising tolerance for spice among younger consumers.

He's known Rubenyan since kindergarten, and met Dave Kopushyan — the one with the cooking skills — in middle school on what was actually Kopushyan’s birthday. His brain started clicking some ...

As the fast-casual Dave's moves into its next level of growth with a $1 billion private-equity deal, some see an IPO in its ...

The fast-casual chain went from parking-lot popup to 10-digit deal in eight years. As the "rock star" in the private-equity ...

Dave’s Hot Chicken president Jim Bitticks remembers visiting restaurants five years ago and asking cofounder Dave Kopushyan ...

president and COO of Dave's, told CNBC Make It. While the financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed, Oganesyan, Kopushyan, the Rubenyan brothers and Phelps will retain minority stakes in ...