Sometimes a publicly traded company is right in front of you hiding in plain sight.

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I'm Chris Hill, joining me today from the great white North, Motley Fool Senior analyst,

Jim Kiles.

Good to see you.

Good to be seen, Chris.

Long time listeners will know that when Jim Giles shows up on Motley Fool Money to talk

about a stock, you can expect a couple of things out of the business.

One is it's probably a business that most American investors have never heard of.

And two, there's a reason Jim is a fan of that business that most Americans have never

heard of.

And no exception today with a company called MTY Food Group, which reported first quarter

earnings, there must have been something positive because the stock is up about 4%.

But this is, this is an interesting one to me because you and I, I hadn't heard of the

parent company, but I have heard of the brands or at least some of the brands because this

is basically if you've ever been to a food court in Canada or the United States, you've

probably seen these fast food slash fast casual businesses and dozens of them are under

the MTY Food Group umbrella.

Yeah, they've got somewhere north, I believe now of 85 banners.

It wasn't uncommon say five or seven years ago if you went to a mall food court which,

you know, I try to avoid like the plague, but you would go to a mall food court and half

of the stores and not mall food court are all owned by MTY and you wouldn't know it.

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