0000921895-12-001703.txt : 20120816 0000921895-12-001703.hdr.sgml : 20120816 20120816173506 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000921895-12-001703 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120814 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120816 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120816 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MASTRIAN JAMES P CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001233865 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-08445 FILM NUMBER: 121040832 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BIGLARI HOLDINGS INC. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000093859 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-EATING PLACES [5812] IRS NUMBER: 370684070 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IN FISCAL YEAR END: 0929 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 17802 IH 10 WEST, SUITE 400 CITY: SAN ANTONIO STATE: TX ZIP: 78257 BUSINESS PHONE: 2103443400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 17802 IH 10 WEST, SUITE 400 CITY: SAN ANTONIO STATE: TX ZIP: 78257 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: STEAK & SHAKE CO DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20010322 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CONSOLIDATED PRODUCTS INC /IN/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: STEAK N SHAKE INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19840529 3 1 form307428007_08162012.xml OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT X0206 3 2012-08-14 0 0000093859 BIGLARI HOLDINGS INC. BH 0001233865 MASTRIAN JAMES P C/O BIGLARI HOLDINGS INC. 17802 IH 10 WEST, SUITE 400 SAN ANTONIO TX 78257 1 0 0 0 Common Stock, stated value $0.50 per share 0 D /s/ JAMES P MASTRIAN 2012-08-16 EX-24 2 ex24107428mas.htm Unassociated Document
Exhibit 24
 
POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Sardar Biglari and Duane E. Geiger as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact to:
 
(1)           execute for and on behalf of the undersigned Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), relating to Biglari Holdings Inc. (the “Company”); and
 
(2)           do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
 
(3)           take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorneys-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorneys-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorneys-in-fact may approve in such attorneys-in-fact’s discretion.
 
The undersigned hereby grants to such attorneys-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact, or such attorneys-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that such attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is not assuming any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.
 
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to any such attorneys-in-fact.  Effective as of the date of this Power of Attorney, the undersigned hereby revokes any and all earlier-dated powers of attorney given by the undersigned for the purposes outlined herein.
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 15th day of August, 2012.
 
   
   
  /s/ James P. Mastrian
 
James P. Mastrian