In a deal with transatlantic ties, restaurateur Stephen Starr has sold his catering division, a juggernaut whose $40 million-a-year portfolio includes off-premises weddings, corporate catering, and large-scale events, as well as operating restaurants and food concessions inside museums in Philadelphia, New York, and Miami.
The Starr Restaurants Catering Group was purchased by Charlotte, N.C.-based TrustHouse Services Group. Terms were not disclosed, though Starr called it “an offer I could not refuse.”
TrustHouse bills itself among the top six contract food service companies in North America; its 7,200 employees serve more than a half-million meals a day through more than 700 client accounts in 47 states, the company said in a statement.
TrustHouse’s owner is Elior, the Paris-based contract caterer with operations in 13 countries and 2013-14 sales of about $5.8 billion.
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