LOCO vs PANL Comparison

El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc operates and franchises hundreds of fast-casual chicken restaurants in the United States. Restaurant locations are typically free-standing and include drive-thrus, and menus include many low-priced options. Poultry is the company's largest food cost, accounting for roughly 38% of total food and paper cost, and the company manages that commodity price risk by using multiple suppliers and entering supply contracts of varying lengths depending on market conditions.

Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd and its subsidiaries provide seaborne drybulk logistics and transportation services. It transports various drybulk cargoes including grains, coal, iron, ore, pig, iron, hot briquetted iron, bauxite, alumina, cement clinker, dolomite, and limestone. The company provides ocean transportation services to clients utilizing an ocean-going fleet of motor vessels in the Handymax, Supramax, Ultramax, Panamax, and Post-Panamax segments. Its services include cargo loading, cargo discharge, vessel chartering, voyage planning, and technical vessel management. The company derives all of its revenues from contracts of affreightment, voyage charters and time charters. Geographically, it derives key revenue from the United States, followed by Canada, Germany, and others.