3 Best Restaurant Stocks to Buy in August

Brands has been converting its Pizza Hut chain into a mostly takeout operation, which helped soften the blow even though one of its biggest franchisees still declared bankruptcy. The three restaurant chains below, however, have held their own, not only during the COVID-19 outbreak, but before it too, so investors should feel comfortable settling in for a slice of their stocks. Brands' prescient conversion of Pizza Hut to takeout, Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) had the foresight to begin installing drive-thru windows at its restaurants.