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Private equity's restaurant buyouts become a defined political target

The New York Times, Oct 20 · read the original

The Times' own dining desk documents customers pushing back as private equity scales up small restaurants, the same week Senator Warren revives the Stop Wall Street Looting Act and cites Jersey Mike's price and quality complaints as her central example; reddit's anticonsumption board raises private equity by name the same weekend.

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