The Little Beet
Dining · 10+ locations · NYC, Washington DC, Jersey City NJ
The Little Beet is a healthy fast-casual chain whose two founders are both gone. It now belongs to Eldridge Industries, a private equity firm that also owns Le Pain Quotidien and California Pizza Kitchen.
The Big Picture
The Little Beet was founded in 2014 around clean sourcing and gluten-free fast casual, but both founders are gone and the brand now belongs to Eldridge Industries, a private equity firm that also owns Le Pain Quotidien's US business and, since December 2025, California Pizza Kitchen. One of its named farm suppliers does not check out. It answers to an expanding restaurant platform, not to its founders.
The Dirty Details
Ownership
Eldridge IndustriesPrivate Equity
Eldridge Industries is Todd Boehly's Greenwich-based private investment firm. Its restaurant arm is Convive Brands, a New York multi-brand operations and investment platform that describes itself on its own site as part of the Eldridge Industries portfolio, and Convive runs both of the companies Ferret tracks here. In December 2025 it became master franchisor for California Pizza Kitchen through a consortium with Eldridge and Aurify Brands. Le Pain Quotidien came to it out of a 2020 Chapter 11 sale, and only the United States business did: the brand everywhere else belongs to a separate Belgian group and is not an Eldridge holding.
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Company data last updated September 2026
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