Naya
Lebanese fast casual · 49+ locations · NYC, NJ, CT, PA, MA
Naya is the Lebanese fast-casual chain Hady Kfoury built from his mother's recipes. He still runs it as CEO, but TriSpan has controlled it since 2020 and stayed in control through a 2025 deal led by Pacific General.
The Big Picture
Hady Kfoury founded Naya in 2008 on his mother's Lebanese recipes and still runs it as CEO. But TriSpan has controlled the company since 2020, and kept control through a July 2025 deal that swapped its original investors for new ones led by Pacific General. At nearly 50 locations and aiming for 200 by 2030, Naya grows on private-equity capital and answers to it.
The Dirty Details
Ownership
Pacific GeneralPrivate Equity
Pacific General is a private equity firm founded in 2019 with offices in New York and Seoul, investing in consumer and industrial businesses. Its restaurant track record is short but fast: it scaled Playa Bowls before exiting in 2024, and it now holds two fast-casual brands Ferret tracks. The two deals are not the same shape, though. It bought a majority of Lenwich outright in March 2025, while at Naya it led the new capital into a continuation vehicle that TriSpan still sponsors and controls. Both founders stayed on as CEO.
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TriSpan is a New York and London private equity firm founded in 2015 whose Rising Stars fund invests exclusively in restaurants, often as the first institutional money into an emerging brand. Its restaurant portfolio also includes Rosa Mexicano and Yardbird. It has twice held onto a brand past the life of the fund that bought it, closing a continuation vehicle that cashed out the original investors while TriSpan itself reinvested: Naya in July 2025 and Maman in May 2026.
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Company data last updated September 2026
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