The company's purpose is to manage restaurants and to acquire and manage participations in companies of all kinds, industrial, commercial and financial, in Switzerland and abroad, excluding all operations subject to the LFAIE; to carry out financing, control and consulting activities for the benefit of the companies and corporations in which it participates and to provide guarantees to them. The company is also authorized to engage in all movable and immovable property transactions having a direct or indirect connection with its main purposes, as well as to carry out all operations, in particular financial ones, on its own account or on behalf of third parties, and to conclude all contracts that are suitable for developing its purpose or are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may also establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad.