Consumer >> Analyst Interviews >> December 8, 2003
ANDREW M. BARISH is a Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst in
the Consumer Group at Banc of America Securities LLC, where he follows
the restaurant industry. He focuses on casual dining, specialty concepts
and quick-service restaurants. He joined Banc of America Securities in
March 2001 from Robertson Stephens, where he had served as a Restaurant
Analyst since 1995. Prior to his focus on the restaurant industry, Mr.
Barish served as an Environmental Services Analyst at Robertson Stephens
from 1993 to 1995 and at Kidder Peabody from 1989 to 1993. He was named
a 'Runner-Up' for the past three years (2002-2004) on the Institutional
Investor All-America Research Team for his coverage of the restaurant
sector. He was also ranked third overall in the 2002 Greenwich Research
Associates Survey. Mr. Barish is a four-time Wall Street Journal All-
Star and is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts. He
received a BS in Business Administration with a Finance emphasis from
the University of Southern California. Profile
Mr. Barish: The performance of the restaurant stocks has been good, as
you would typically see in an economic recovery such as we
