{"id":342167,"date":"2026-09-09T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342167\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:54:09","slug":"nrn-trending-new-york-citys-los-tacos-no-1-nabs-pe-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342167\/","title":{"rendered":"NRN Trending: New York City\u2019s Los Tacos No. 1 nabs PE investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">This week on Nation&#8217;s Restaurant News, the top story was \u201cNew York City\u2019s Los Tacos No. 1 nabs private-equity investment.\u201d Los Tacos No. 1 \u2014 the Tijuana-style taco brand that got its start in 2013 at a stand in New York City\u2019s Chelsea Market \u2014 announced it received a strategic investment from private-equity firm TSG Consumer. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed, and it is unknown if TSG Consumer will act as a majority or minority investor in the emerging brand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">In other news, 7 Brew got the closed Salad and Go sites it really wanted, but they\u2019re coming at a hefty price. The drive-thru coffee chain won the bidding for a large group of sites once used by the now-bankrupt salad chain, but only after rival Dutch Bros opted not to increase its previous, $105 million bid for the locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Also, Food hall\/delivery company Wonder is laying off 7% of its staff in an effort to streamline its business ahead of a planned IPO. The cuts will affect about 150 workers companywide, according to a person familiar with the decision.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"related-article\" class=\"RelatedArticle\">Related:<a class=\"RelatedArticle-RelatedContent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrn.com\/emerging-chains\/south-korea-bakery-caf-chain-twosome-place-to-make-u-s-debut\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Korea bakery-caf\u00e9 chain Twosome Place to make U.S. debut<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">See what else was trending on NRN.com this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week on Nation&#8217;s Restaurant News, the top story was \u201cNew York City\u2019s Los Tacos No. 1 nabs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-342167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}