The company's purpose is to operate restaurants and buffets for on-site and take-out dining, as well as to trade in all types of products. In general, the company may engage in any financial, commercial, industrial, movable or immovable activity, directly or indirectly related to its purpose or likely to promote its realization, conclude contracts that are intended to develop its activities or are directly or indirectly related to them, receive products in the form of interest, commissions, and dividends, create branches or subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, take participations, acquire or create identical or similar companies, participate in all companies having a direct or indirect relationship with its purpose. It may perform these operations for its own account as well as for the account of third parties. It may acquire, operate, and dispose of real estate; it may grant loans and provide guarantees in favor of any person, including its associates and managers.