Private Equity
Bamboo Sushi is going to open locations in Seattle and San Francisco, and that has a lot to do with an investment that barely got any attention. Last month, news broke that Bain Capital invested in Sustainable Restaurant Group, the Portland-based company behind eco-friendly Japanese restaurant and its fast-casual, poke-happy compatriot Quickfish. Folks may know Bain Capital as Mitt Romney’s old stomping grounds, a private equity firm that accrued a heaping pile of bad press around 2012. We checked in with Cory Schisler, the creative director behind SRG, to clear the waters about the new stream of investment.

In this article