evidence: Fuddruckers Restaurants, known for its customizable burgers, announced this week it is opening 10 new mall-based eateries in partnership with real estate company Brookfield Properties. [...] After floundering for years and closing all its Atlanta-area restaurants, Fuddruckers in 2021 was sold to its largest franchisee, Black Titan Enterprises, in a deal valued at $18.5 million. Fuddruckers CEO Nicholas Perkins now plans a turnaround. "I think it’s very important to reestablish this brand — it did give birth to the gourmet burger sector," Perkins told the Washington Business Journal last year.