Steak ‘n Shake made headlines in the fall of 2018 when it announced a massive refranchising initiative. It wasn’t the proposed structural change, though, that garnered news—it was the fact Steak ‘n Shake put locations on the block for $10,000 in hopes of fostering a single-operator system similar to the one Chick-fil-A built an empire on. Read the QSR magazine story here