The investor who led a campaign to stop J. Alexander’s Holdings from buying a casual dining chain from the company that also owns O’Charley’s is now pushing for it to rid itself of a consulting agreement he calls costly and conflicted.

During a campaign to defeat the plan to buy 99 Restaurants, Mario Cibelli of Marathon Partners Equity Management called for new directors to join the board and for the company to hire an investment bank to evaluate strategic alternatives. This week, he also pressed them to re-evaluate the company’s relationship with Black Knight Advisory Services, an entity controlled by Bill Foley, head honcho of 99 owner Cannae Holdings, and 12 percent owned by J. Alexander’s CEO Lonnie Stout. The companies’ agreement, signed ahead of J. Alexander’s initial public offering in 2015 and set to run through 2022, calls for the Nashville-based chain to pay Black Knight 3 percent of its annual adjusted EBITDA in exchange for various “corporate and strategic advisory services.” That number was $729,000 in 2017.