Zoe's Kitchen, which operates 111 fast-casual restaurants serving Mediterranean-inspired comfort food, filed on Monday with the SEC to raise up to $81 million in an initial public offering. The Birmingham, AL-based company, which was founded in 1995 and booked $116 million in sales for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2013, plans to list on the NYSE under the symbol ZOES. Jefferies, Piper Jaffray and Baird are the joint bookrunners on the deal. No pricing terms were disclosed.
