IPO experts are expecting more companies to go public this year than last year, and restaurants including Panera and Fogo de Chao are considering offerings.

Shares in the sports-bar chain opened at $17.45 on the Nasdaq on Thursday. Proceeds will be used to pay down debt and fuel expansion.

David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark and dreamlike vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died just ...