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Tropicana Express company history timeline

1988

Quantum's first acquisition, in December 1988, had been an 89 percent stake in Peasant Restaurants Inc., an Atlanta-based, 14-unit restaurant firm, for $11.6 million.

1989

Quantum Restaurant Group, 1989-96

1992

The company made its initial public offering of stock in 1992, its first profitable year.

1993

In December 1993, Quantum launched a new chain, called Bertolini's Authentic Trattorias, that featured northern Italian food at midscale prices.

1994

The chain, although remaining Atlanta-based and -oriented, opened a Philadelphia unit in 1994.

1996

In 1996 the two chains lost $11 million on revenues of $54.4 million, but Quantum nevertheless registered net income of $1.8 million.

1997

The company announced in early 1997 that it was selling 19 Peasant and Mick's restaurants, for $6.8 million in cash and notes, to Gregory M. Buckley, former president of Quincy's Family Steakhouse.

1999

FMR Corp. was Morton's Restaurant Group's largest stockholder in May 1999, with 12.8 percent of the shares.

2002

In April 2002, Laughlin was the scene of a deadly fight between two rival California motorcycle gangs, the Hell’s Angels and the Mongols.

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