What Makes Jack in the Box, a chain of 2,200 hamburger and Mexican fast-food restaurants, worth $1.3 billion on Wall Street? Perhaps investors are awed by the company's ability to grow even as it's putting its capital costs on a diet. For fiscal 2004 Jack's capital expenditures fell to $120 million from $143 million in fiscal 2002. But Jack in the Box grew, along with its customers' cholesterol counts, during that period. Jack's free cash flow, or cash from operations minus capital expenditures, climbed from $29 million to $80 million.
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机译：是什么让杰克在盒子里，拥有2200个汉堡包和墨西哥快餐店，在华尔街市值13亿美元，所以呢？也许投资者对公司的成长能力感到敬畏，即使该公司正在节食其资本成本。在2004会计年度，Jack的资本支出从2002会计年度的1.43亿美元降至1.2亿美元。但是在此期间，Jack in the Box以及客户的胆固醇数量都在增长。杰克的自由现金流（或运营现金减去资本支出）从2900万美元上升至8000万美元。
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