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PizzaRev, a Los Angeles-based fast casual pizza chain, has signed an agreement to open 20 stores in Central and Western Mexico.

No company wants to compete against itself for customers. But that was the exact situation Homestyle Dining found itself in less than a year ago. The Plano, Texas-based company owned three steak-based brands: Coles Backyard BBQ, a fast-casual player; and Bonanza and Ponderosa, both operating in the steak/salad buffet segment.

Private equity firm TPG Growth has acquired Taco Bueno, a Tex-Mex quick-serve based in Farmers Branch, Texas.

Following the path of other chain restaurants that are expanding by adding units in non-traditional locations, bakery-café concept la Madeleine Country French Café opened its latest restaurant at the University of Kentucky in Lexington last month.

Saladworks, a 105-unit chain located primarily along the Atlantic coast from Boston to Washington, D.C., plans to expand nationally.

Salata, the Houston-based salad chain founded in 2005, opened a new location in Schaumburg, Ill., that includes new features to its beverage platform.

Dallas-based Pizza Patrón opened a new standalone concept, which has since become the chain's fourth highest-earning location out of 95 stores systemwide.