Management
Runs 86X-operated restaurants, starting with Huey Magoo's and Southern Grounds.
86X Ventures / Built by operatorsOne platform to grow
One platform to grow
restaurant brands.
86X takes a stake in founder-led brands, sells their franchises, runs their stores, supplies their operations and funds their growth.
TWENTY YEARS IN RESTAURANTS. TEN WAYS TO HELP.Ten verticals. One holding company.
Each vertical is its own business. Together they give a brand everything it needs to grow.
Franchising
Sells multi-brand development agreements to strong local operators.
Advisors
Operator advisory and coaching for founder-led restaurant brands.
Restaurants
Holds 86X's ownership stakes in the brands it helps grow.
Technology
The software every unit runs on, from compliance to HR to employee meals.
Manufacturing
Compliance Boards and small-batch consumer packaged goods.
Real Estate
Owns and develops multi-brand centers for platform brands.
Marketing
One customer relationship shared across every brand in a market.
Talent
Recruits, trains and develops the people every unit runs on, from shift leads to general managers to franchise operators.
Capital
Invests in the platform's brands, units and real estate alongside founders and partners.
10 brands · 10 markets · 10 operators · 10 units
A local operator buys one 10-unit development agreement for their territory and picks from the 86X portfolio — for example, five coffee shops and five burger restaurants. Every brand in that market shares one customer list.
Built for four kinds of partners.
Founders & brands
Founder-led brands with fewer than ten units that are ready to grow. We bring franchising, operations, technology and capital, and founders keep a real voice in the brand.
Get in touch →Franchisees & operators
Local multi-unit operators who want more than one brand in their territory through a single development agreement.
Get in touch →Investors
86X Capital invests alongside founders in the platform's brands, units and real estate. Accredited investors can request information.
Get in touch →Partners & vendors
Suppliers, technology and real estate partners who want to grow with every brand on the platform.
Get in touch →Software and products built from the kitchen up.
ManufacturingLIVE
ComplianceBoards.com
Required compliance posters, made better. One handsome board, every poster, ordered in minutes.
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FranForge.ai
Franchise readiness for emerging restaurant brands: a readiness score, playbook and templates to prepare a brand for franchising.
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GiveGrow.ai
Tools for restaurants that want to become collection points for their local community, not just branded partners in someone else's charitable campaign.
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ShiftMeal.ai
Employee shift-meal cost management and a retention tool that pays for itself.
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ComplianceBoards.ai
Tracks every permit, license and required posting across every location, with a QR code on each Compliance Board for inspectors.
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86x.ai
One record of every relationship a restaurant has — team, franchisees, fans, community, vendors and investors.
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We've been on the franchisee side. We've been on the franchisor side. We've worked Friday rushes, fought through DOL audits, hired and lost and rehired the same shift leads, watched margins disappear into problems nobody had built software to fix yet. We know what this industry actually feels like from the inside.
That experience is what 86X is built on. Every product we ship gets stress-tested against a simple question: would the operator we used to be actually use this? If the answer is no, we don't ship it. If the answer is yes, we keep building until it's better.
The technology side of what we do is new. The understanding of the work is not.