Chain Leader

Last month, two Chicago-based restaurant chains, full-service Stir Crazy Fresh Asian Grill and fast-casual FlatTop Grill, merged, becoming 28-unit Flat Out Crazy LLC. "There's no downside to it," President and Chief Operating Officer Greg Carey tells Chain Leader Senior Editor David Farkas. The chains retain their separate identities, profitable unit economic models and expansion goals. Listen in as Carey explains.