Carrols Restaurant Group Inc. hired hedge fund executive Jared Landaw as vice president and general counsel, the third person to hold that role in a year.
He joins the company after serving as a partner, general counsel, and chief operating officer for Barington Capital Group LP, a New York-based hedge fund that has been an activist investor in several prominent restaurant chains.
Landaw aims to help Carrols with “its strategy of operating two world-class restaurant brands,” he said in a statement. Carrols is the largest U.S. franchisee of Burger King restaurants with more than 1,000 locations, and the company also ...