I used to be a foodie jumping from cafe to cafe – known as cafe-hopping – when I was young.

However, as I stepped into the workforce and started a family, I literally had no more time for that. Instead, I now patronise different kinds of restaurants situated in various shopping malls.

Although I missed the leisure times where me and my girlfriend (now wife) would spend an entire afternoon sipping coffee in a new cafe, I gained something important in return...

...the opportunity to do some “food-tasting” in the restaurants of various listed companies such as Swensens’ by ABR Holdings and Din Tai Fung by BreadTalk Group.

With that, I am very excited to do some digging on how the restaurant companies have performed.

In this article, we're going to take a look at 3 of the restaurant brands with what we term "brand