Wonder acquires Mighty Quinn’s BBQ
The eight-unit fast casual joins Wonder's roster of 30 restaurant brands.
July 10, 2026
Food hall/delivery concept Wonder has added another restaurant to its portfolio of 30 brands.
The company acquired Mighty Quinn’s BBQ, an eight-unit fast casual based in New York City. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Some of Mighty Quinn’s management team will remain with the company, while co-founder and co-CEO Micha Magid will act as a consultant during the transition.
“It has been quite a ride,” Magid wrote in a LinkedIn post Thursday. “Now, as part of Wonder, the ride is about to speed up and we can’t wait.”
It is the second time Wonder has acquired a restaurant outright. In February, it bought the single-unit Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken, another NYC concept. Wonder’s other brands were either created in-house or licensed from their owners.
The acquisitions are part of Wonder’s strategy of buying small, local brands and scaling them across its growing network of high-tech food halls. It gives the company some recognizable names to offer alongside homegrown brands like Limesalt and Burger Baby.
In Mighty Quinn’s, Wonder gets a well-known New York brand. Founded in 2012 by James Beard-winning pitmaster Hugh Mangum, caterer Christo Gourmos, and Magid, a Wall Street analyst, the restaurant got an early boost from a positive New York Times review and has grown steadily from there, expanding into franchising and a line of packaged meats for grocery stores.
Today the chain has five locations in New York and one each in New Jersey, Florida, and Maryland. Wonder will continue to operate these locations as usual.
As it has grown, Mighty Quinn’s has adopted a hub-and-spoke model to supply its locations, smoking meat at a central location and delivering it to restaurants. That is similar to Wonder’s operating model, which relies on commissaries to prepare food that is then shipped to stores and finished by staff.
Growing a barbecue chain has historically been difficult. The cooking process is complex and time-consuming, and regional differences can keep chains from getting too large.
Wonder has taken on such challenges before. In fact, it already has a barbecue concept, Tejas Barbecue. And in March, it began testing an Indian concept called Dabba, a cuisine that is notoriously hard to scale.
"As Wonder integrates Mighty Quinn’s into its existing operations, the company’s culinary team, led by trained chefs, will focus on making the signature dishes fans love more widely available across the Wonder platform," a Wonder spokesperson said in a statement.
New York-based Wonder was founded in 2018 by Marc Lore, an entrepreneur who founded successful ecommerce companies Diapers.com and Jet.com. Since 2021, Wonder has raised more than $2 billion in capital, with another $600 million in the works, which it has used to make several major acquisitions and quickly open new locations.
Wonder also owns Blue Apron, Grubhub, and Spyce kitchen robotics. It has about 130 locations in 10 East Coast states and Washington, D.C.
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Joe Guszkowski
Senior editor, Restaurant Business
Joe Guszkowski is a senior editor with Restaurant Business covering technology and casual-dining chains.
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