Taco Bell Coming to Germany

How Iqoniko and Van Sterling Capital Are Enabling Private Investors to Participate in a Growth Story via the Innovative Platform Intokia.com

Lehmann Hotel und Gaststätten Holding GmbH is leveraging an innovative Capital Roadshow for digitized profit participation rights—a modern investment vehicle—as it begins its Taco Bell rollout in Bavaria, Germany. In collaboration with Iqoniko and Van Sterling, the group is establishing a model that provides both professional and retail investors access to an extraordinary expansion journey.

Bavaria, Germany as the Starting Point for a New Growth Story

The planned rollout of Taco Bell in Bavaria, Germany is set to become one of the most compelling expansion projects in the German quick-service restaurant sector. Behind the initiative is Lehmann Hotel und Gaststätten Holding GmbH, which, together with Iqoniko and Van Sterling Capital, is breaking new ground in financing, investor relations, and growth strategies.

This goes beyond the simple introduction of a globally successful restaurant brand. Instead, it is an innovative model that combines operational expansion with modern capital market instruments, opening access to an exceptional investment opportunity for private investors.

Iqoniko Organizes the First Capital Roadshows for Lehmann Hotel und Gaststätten Holding GmbH

Under an exclusive mandate, Iqoniko is managing the strategic capital market communications and overseeing the organization and execution of Lehmann Hotel und Gaststätten Holding GmbH’s first Capital Roadshows in Germany.

The roadshows aim to provide investors with a transparent insight into the company’s expansion strategy, planned site development, and long-term growth prospects. Simultaneously, it offers both professional and retail investors the opportunity to engage with the project at an early stage.

Dave Persico, founder and Managing Partner of Iqoniko, views this collaboration as a significant milestone: “Taco Bell in Bavaria is much more than just a franchise rollout—it is a unique growth story. We are proud to facilitate this project alongside Lehmann Hotel und Gaststätten Holding GmbH and Van Sterling. Our collaboration with Van Sterling is defined by innovation, the highest standards of professionalism, and the courage to take new paths. Together, we are creating the conditions that allow retail investors to participate in this exciting expansion.”

This initiative exemplifies a new approach to corporate finance, where attractive growth projects are no longer reserved exclusively for institutional investors.

Van Sterling Structures the Investment Solution

Van Sterling Capital plays a central role in this project. The company is managing the structuring of the investment solution, bringing its extensive expertise in asset management, capital markets, and alternative investment models to the table.

The goal is to create a professional and transparent structure that meets both the requirements of modern capital markets and the expectations of private and professional investors, placing the expansion of Taco Bell in Bavaria on a sustainable, long-term foundation.

Intokia: The Digital Platform for Modern Profit Participation Rights

Intokia is Van Sterling Capital’s digital investment platform, tasked with efficiently managing the subscription and administration of digitized profit participation rights (Genussrechte/Genussscheine).

Via the Intokia platform, investors can subscribe to digital profit participation rights directly and entirely online. The platform combines modern technology with proven participation models, enabling an efficient, transparent, and user-friendly investment process. By digitizing the entire subscription and administration flow, a direct connection is forged between the issuer and the investor, simplifying administrative processes and significantly increasing accessibility for investors.

Exclusive Access for Retail Investors

The Capital Roadshows, facilitated by Iqoniko, mark the debut of this new form of investor outreach. For the first time, retail investors have the opportunity to gain comprehensive information about the growth strategy of Lehmann Hotel und Gaststätten Holding GmbH and the planned expansion of the Taco Bell network in Bavaria.

Through the investment solution structured by Van Sterling and the digital platform Intokia, participants can invest directly in the company’s growth strategy via digital profit participation rights. This creates an entry point that, in similar growth projects, has often been reserved for institutional investors.

More Than Just a Franchise Rollout

The planned Taco Bell rollout is far more than the introduction of another restaurant brand to the German market. It stands as an example of a new generation of growth projects where operational excellence, modern capital market communication, and digital investment solutions go hand in hand.

While Lehmann Hotel und Gaststätten Holding GmbH drives the operational development of Taco Bell in Bavaria, Iqoniko provides the capital market access, Van Sterling structures the investment solution, and Intokia provides the digital infrastructure for the subscription and administration of the profit participation rights. Together, they are building an ecosystem that combines the dynamics of an international restaurant brand with innovative forms of participation, opening new perspectives for investors.

The Beginning of a New Investment Culture

The cooperation between Lehmann Hotel und Gaststätten Holding GmbH, Iqoniko, and Van Sterling Capital could serve as a blueprint for the future of SME growth financing in Germany. With the company group’s first Capital Roadshows, the professional investment structure provided by Van Sterling, and the digital subscription platform Intokia, a model is emerging that places transparency, digitalization, and investor accessibility at the forefront.

For the partners involved, this is only the beginning. The fusion of gastronomy, capital markets, asset management, and digital participation technology demonstrates how modern growth financing can look in the future—and offers private investors the chance to become part of an extraordinary expansion story.