- Kum & Go Prepares to Welcome First Customers in Utah
(csnews.com - 12/16/2022) The Draper store is the first of several Kum & Go locations set to open in the Salt Lake City area over the next year. The convenience store operator also plans to open stores in South Jordan, Murray and Herriman, Utah, during the first half of 2023. (full story)
- Cafe Rio Mexican Grill to Open Three Utah Stores
(qsrmagazine.com - 12/16/2022) Cafe Rio Mexican Grill announced the grand opening celebrations of three new locations coming to Utah this fall: Salt Lake City on State Street on September 23, Pleasant Grove on North Country Boulevard on November 4, and Lone Peak on December 16. (full story)
- Honeygrow Signs Lease for Owings Mill, Maryland, Location
(qsrmagazine.com - 12/16/2022) This year has been a milestone for the healthy fast-casual brand marking its 10th anniversary, opening six new locations, totaling 31 restaurants across seven markets, with more than a dozen locations in the pipeline for 2023. (full story)
- Chicken Salad Chick Signs Two Development Agreements for Colorado Springs and Denver
(franchising.com - 12/16/2022) Chicken Salad Chick has announced the signing of two development deals for Colorado. The signed agreements will bring 6-units to Denver and 3-units to Colorado Springs. (full story)
- New Whole Foods Market coming to NYC’s Financial District
(grocerydive.com - 12/16/2022) The specialty grocer has opened 11 new stores over the course of 2022, with an emphasis on existing markets like California and New York City. (full story)
- Del Taco Signs Two New Florida Deals
(franchising.com - 12/16/2022) Tom Edwards is the newest franchisee to join Del Taco with a commitment to build five new restaurants in the northern Tampa Bay area in Pasco County. Edwards has more than 10 years of experience as an owner-operator of multiple successful restaurant brands. (full story)
- Over 100 New Shops Signed In One Year? You Better Bowl-Leave-It
(restaurantnews.com - 12/14/2022) Teriyaki Madness, is wrapping up the year at 37 new franchisees with 103 new units on tap as it continues to provide its amazing teriyaki bowls to a loyal and rabid fanbase. These openings helped the brand break into several new markets for the very first time, including Louisiana, Georgia, Missouri and Massachusetts. (full story)
- Pokemoto Signs First Franchise Agreement in Northern California
(qsrmagazine.com - 12/14/2022) The franchise agreement in Northern California will focus on Sonoma and Marin counties. The franchise group benefitted from Pokemoto’s Veteran discount program. (full story)
- Inside Taco John’s Big Move
(qsrmagazine.com - 12/13/2022) The aggressive incentive offer paid off. Over the next four years, approximately 120 Taco John’s stores are slated to open—which is the largest development pipeline the brand has ever had, Creel reveals. (full story)
- Largest Jack in the Box franchisee makes strategic investment in fast-casual Nick the Greek
(restaurantbusinessonline.com - 12/13/2022) But about 70 units are currently under development and will bring the brand to Arizona, Utah and Texas, and more are planned around Kansas City, Mo. About 39 of the 48 units are franchised, but the plan is to also grow company-owned locations. (full story)
- American Freight Awards 13 Territories in Third Quarter to Franchise Owners Across the Nation
(franchising.com - 12/13/2022) The new locations will be spread across Michigan and Texas, and will add to the company’s growing footprint of more than 360 stores. The awarded territories represent three new franchise owners. Among them, Jimmy and Jennifer Day will franchise seven locations in Texas. (full story)
- Sweetgreen continues expansion into new markets
(chainstoreage.com - 12/13/2022) Sweetgreen, which went public last November, expects to open at least 35 new restaurants in 2022. It is looking to double its footprint in the next three to five years, and sees the potential for 1,000 locations by the end of the decade. The company currently operates more than 170 restaurants. (full story)
- Dollar General’s new Popshelf stores chase inflation-weary shoppers in the suburbs
(cnbc.com - 12/13/2022) Over the next three years, it plans to grow to about 1,000 locations across the country. Eventually, it sees an opportunity to reach about 3,000 total locations. (full story)
- LL Flooring to Open 4 Stores in '23, Resume Stock Repurchase Plan
(floordaily.net - 12/13/2022) The company recently opened two new stores in Bellingham, Washington, and Joplin, Missouri, bringing total new store openings to 18 in 2022. Looking ahead to 2023, the company currently expects to open three to four new stores. (full story)
- Marco's Pizza Announces 8-Unit Area Development Agreement in Virginia
(yahoo.com - 12/13/2022) Ghanem and his team are in early site selection across Leesburg, Sterling, Herndon, Reston, Arlington, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon for the additional eight stores. (full story)
- Quiznos Set to Expand Georgia Presence with 10 Store Multi-Unit Development Agreement
(businesswire.com - 12/13/2022) Quiznos continues to take steps in its extensive growth plans, inking a new multi-unit development agreement with franchisee Sam Patel that provides 10 new restaurants and exclusivity across Northern Georgia. (full story)
- Unleashed Brands' Existing Franchisee Expands Portfolio, Signs 3-Unit Deal with The Little Gym
(whatsuppub.com - 12/13/2022) The first of his locations will be in Waxahachie set to open at the beginning of the New Year and plans to open two additional locations within the year in McKinney and Allen, Texas. (full story)
- Starbucks unveils new Web3 loyalty program with exclusive rewards
(presstories.com - 12/12/2022) The American chain opened 763 new stores worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2022, for a total of 35,711 stores worldwide... (full story)
- Sky Zone to Bring Two New Locations to New Jersey
(yahoo.com - 12/12/2022) Sky Zone, the leader in the indoor active entertainment industry, announced today they will be opening two new park locations in New Jersey, one in North Bergen and the other in Rutherford. (full story)
- Wawa Opens Two More New Jersey Stores
(nj1015.com - 12/9/2022) As part of a previously announced expansion, Wawa has christened two more stores in the Garden State, one in Hamilton and one in Orange... (full story)
- Sonic is looking for six more sites in WNY
(buffalonews.com - 12/9/2022) Kevin DiPirro, the Sonic Drive-In franchisee who owns restaurants on Elmwood Avenue, in Cheektowaga and in Erie, Pa., is on the hunt for up to six more locations. (full story)
- Fast-growing Aldi opens 7 stores this week
(winsightgrocerybusiness.com - 12/9/2022) The new locations are part of the company’s nationwide growth plan, which includes the opening of approximately 150 new stores this year—close to 20 of which will be in Alabama, Mississippi, the Florida Panhandle and Louisiana, Aldi said. (full story)
- Dave’s Hot Chicken Bringing Units to New Hampshire and Massachusetts
(franchising.com - 12/9/2022) Graziano will focus on growing Dave’s Hot Chicken in Merrimack, Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties in New Hampshire, as well as Essex County in Massachusetts. (full story)
- Pollo Campero Targets Colorado for Franchise Development
(1851franchise.com - 12/9/2022) Escarcega says Pollo Campero ended the past year with 81 total restaurant units in the U.S., including 60 corporate stores, 17 franchise units and four ghost kitchens. Now he says the five-year plan is to reach 180 corporate units and 85 franchise locations. (full story)
- Pollo Campero Targets Tennessee for Franchise Expansion
(1851franchise.com - 12/9/2022) In Tennessee, Pollo Campero sees the potential to open about 15 new restaurants. “Tennessee is really becoming one of those areas where a lot of people love to be, and we see it as a great opportunity for the Pollo Campero brand to continue to flourish,” said Escarcega. (full story)
- Pet Wants taps new president to lead future growth
(petfoodprocessing.net - 12/9/2022) Carani’s appointment follows significant growth for Pet Wants, which has sold 47 new franchise locations during the past year. The company has also witnessed an increase demand in pet food. (full story)
- Fazoli's Signs Deals in Texas and Louisiana
(qsrmagazine.com - 12/8/2022) Both the Denton, Texas location and the first of the two Shreveport, Louisiana locations are slated to open by the end of 2023. Looking ahead, Fazoli’s is on track for a record-breaking number of openings in 2023, with 15 currently in the development pipeline. (full story)
- Torrid Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2022 Results and Updates Fiscal 2022 Outlook
(businesswire.com - 12/8/2022) Opened three Torrid stores and two Curv stores in the third quarter and closed three stores. The total store count at quarter end was 629 stores... (full story)
- Wawa Will Expand Into Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky
(cspdailynews.com - 12/7/2022) These market launches will take place sometime after 2025, and the company will offer details on estimated timeframes and numbers of stores by state in 2023. (full story)
- Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii Signs 10-Unit Deal
(qsrmagazine.com - 12/7/2022) RPC Ventures, LLC plans to develop the 10 units within the next four and half years in the West Houston and Galveston Island area. The team hopes to grow from here and plans to sign many more deals with the brand in the future. (full story)
- Academy Sports + Outdoors Reports Third Quarter 2022 Results
(finance.yahoo.com - 12/7/2022) During the third quarter, Academy opened four new stores and has since opened three new stores in the fourth quarter...The Company expects to open 80 to 100 stores over the next five years... (full story)
- ARKO to Acquire Uncle’s Convenience Stores
(cspdailynews.com - 12/7/2022) ARKO Corp. has agreed to acquire the retail, wholesale and fleet fueling assets of WTG Fuels Holdings LLC, a Midland, Texas-based c-store operator with 24 company-operated Uncle’s Convenience Stores across western Texas. (full story)
- Pret A Manger franchisee to develop 40 units in California
(restaurantdive.com - 12/7/2022) Pret A Manger has partnered with Dallas Holdings to build a network of restaurants across Southern California and a unit in the New York City neighborhood of Hudson Yards, the company announced Tuesday. (full story)
- Walk-On’s Set to Debut Newest Prototype in Central Louisiana
(restaurantnews.com - 12/6/2022) This will be the first location to feature the Wildcat and will be used as the blueprint for DMBC’s remaining six Walk-On’s that are still in development. (full story)
- The Dog Stop Names Franchise Veteran New VP of Operations
(petage.com - 12/6/2022) So far through October, The Dog Stop has welcomed 24 new franchisees into the system, who will be opening 45+ locations. The Dog Stop’s initial franchise fee is $49,500, and the total investment to open a new location ranges from $289,500 to $601,625. (full story)
- Aqua-Tots Swim Schools Opens 130th Indoor Learn-to-Swim Facility in Sandy Springs, Georgia
(prweb.com - 12/6/2022) Aqua-Tots Sandy Springs is the eighth Atlanta-area school and the thirteenth location for business partners, Andrew George, Jesse Rhodenbaugh and Tommy Fisher, who also own schools in North Carolina and Virginia. (full story)
- The Joint Chiropractic Expands to Alaska, Signs Franchise Agreement for Three Clinics
(franchising.com - 12/6/2022) Ron and Julie Kluff, James Petersen, D.C., Toni Petersen and Jerusha Overton are the franchisees growing the brand in Alaska. The Kluffs also own three The Joint locations in Utah, and the Petersons are previous franchisees who have rejoined the brand to develop Alaska. (full story)
- Main Squeeze Juice: Stepping Up Expansion Via Franchising
(worldnewsera.com - 12/6/2022) To that end, Main Squeeze Juice has expanded from New Orleans to Houston, Hattiesburg, Miss, and is developing 10 stores in Jacksonville, Fl, four stores in St. Louis, and just awarded a franchisee the state of Arizona. (full story)
- Huey Magoo’s Now Open In Port St. Lucie, Florida
(restaurantnews.com - 12/6/2022) The 2,300 square foot inline restaurant featuring an outdoor patio is the first of 11 restaurants that Huey Magoo’s franchisees Tom Tracy and sons Matt, Pat and Ryan, along with Mike Salaita and Dan Huck will open, who are also the franchise owners of Five Guys in South Florida. (full story)
- Guthrie’s Inks a Major Franchise Agreement
(qsrmagazine.com - 12/6/2022) Through a 50-unit Area Developer Agreement, and an option for another 50 restaurants, Stephen Galbraith and Matt Dahlhauser of Dahlhauser Galbraith Operating Companies, LLC, are set to aggressively expand Guthrie’s out west into Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. (full story)
- Smoothie King Signs Deal to Grow in Greater Cleveland
(qsrmagazine.com - 12/6/2022) Smoothie King is now prioritizing development in Ohio with seasoned multi-unit operators and has plans to open in surrounding cities including Ashland, North Olmsted, Medina, Akron, Beachwood, Avon, Euclid among others. (full story)
- Salad and Go Announces Two Openings in Oklahoma
(qsrmagazine.com - 12/6/2022) The Del City store marks the first Salad and Go location in this territory, but the brand’s growth goals for the state are far from complete. Next on the horizon for Salad and Go’s Oklahoma development is a new store set to open in Oklahoma City at 16450 N Western Ave. on Dec. 20, becoming the third store in its market. (full story)
- Pokemoto crosses milestone of 50 franchise agreements signed
(nrn.com - 12/6/2022) Pokemoto will make a splash in new markets while expanding in existing markets, including Texas, South Carolina, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia. (full story)
- Bertucci's Files Bankruptcy for Second Time
(fsrmagazine.com - 12/6/2022) The brand said in its filing that COVID and inflation caused sales to drop and expenses to rise. Bertucci's earned $97.9 million in fiscal 2021, but suffered an operating loss of $14 million and a net loss of $7.2 million. (full story)
- Meijer Announces Opening Date for New Meijer Grocery Store Concept
(yahoo.com - 12/5/2022) Meijer Grocery is a new type of Meijer store focused on simplifying the customer shopping experience. The stores are designed with convenience and ease in mind. For example, parking will wrap around a singular corner entrance to maximize the number of parking spaces near the door. (full story)
- Fleet Feet to open another store in central Pa.
(pennlive.com - 12/5/2022) Fleet Feet is expanding to the East Shore...The athletic shoe and apparel retailer that has a store on the West Shore, plans to open a store at the High Pointe Commons shopping center in Swatara Township... (full story)
- Applebee’s owner to acquire Fuzzy’s Taco Shop for $80M
(restaurantbusinessonline.com - 12/5/2022) Franchisees operate 98% of the chain’s locations and it had $1.5 million average unit volumes last year, according to data from Restaurant Business sister company Technomic. Fuzzy’s has deals in place that would double its current unit count, Dine Brands said. (full story)
- Potbelly Signs Deals to Open 25 New Restaurants
(qsrmagazine.com - 12/5/2022) The agreements extend development rights with Brent Brouse (Greenville and Wilmington, North Carolina and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina), Paul Goldammer (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), Fabian Nelson (Memphis, Tennessee) and Mohit Kishore and Tulshi Bakar (Wake, Durham, Orange and Chatham counties, North Carolina). (full story)
- Popular Mexican restaurant chain, El Pollo Loco, announces return to Colorado
(outtherecolorado.com - 12/4/2022) The restaurant's first Colorado location has opened in Denver at 4698 Peoria Street. According to a report by 9news, the chain plans on opening 15 more locations in Colorado. (full story)
- Tractor Supply celebrates 500th Project Fusion store
(lbmjournal.com - 12/2/2022) Tractor Supply has completed the 500th store in its Project Fusion initiative, a remodel effort designed to create a more contemporary customer experience... (full story)
- Dollar General Plans to Open 1,050 Locations in 2023
(retailtouchpoints.com - 12/2/2022) Dollar General is continuing its rapid expansion into fiscal 2023 with plans for 1,050 new stores, following a successful Q3 2022 when sales rose 11.1% to $9.5 billion... (full story)
- Salt Life To Open New Doors
(sgbonline.com - 12/2/2022) In 2022, Salt Life opened seven retail stores with four stores in Florida—Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and Jupiter—and locations in Foley, Alabama, Hilton Head, South Carolina, and Rehoboth Beach, DE. The upcoming openings bring the brand’s total store count to 25 stores. (full story)
- Pollo Campero Targets Utah for Franchise Growth
(1851franchise.com - 12/2/2022) Over the next five years, the Pollo Campero team hopes to open 10 locations in Utah, mostly around the city of Salt Lake City. In addition to Utah, the Pollo Campero team says their expansion efforts will be primarily focused across the Southeast over the next three to five years, including the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and North Florida. (full story)
- Slim Chickens fast-casual restaurant wants to grow in Maryland
(wmar2news.com - 12/2/2022) "Our ability to find great people to continue to go to the next location is really going to be our only obstacle from us trying to grow as many as we possibly can... We're looking at all areas of Maryland," he said. (full story)
- Bojangles Signs Development Agreement to Expand Atlanta Footprint
(yahoo.com - 12/2/2022) Bojangles, announced today it has signed a franchise development agreement with Melanbo, a franchise group partly owned by prestigious music executives, Mel Carter and Kevin "Coach K" Lee. Carter and his ownership group will develop 14 new locations in Greater Atlanta. (full story)
- Colorado coffee chain will expand to Sioux Falls
(siouxfalls.business - 12/2/2022) Michael and Liz Minor are franchising the concept in the market and looking for locations, according to a statement from Ziggi’s. “The choice to open a Ziggi’s was influenced by the strong brand reputation the company has already earned. (full story)
- Clean Juice, Tim Tebow, and the Start of Purpose-Driven Growth
(qsrmagazine.com - 12/2/2022) It’s been a quick rise. Clean Juice had 72 franchise outlets at year-end 2019, which was up 25 net from the prior year. The brand would add a net of 17 locations in 2020 and 2021, respectively, alongside six corporate venues. The period also included franchise entries into four fresh markets—Connecticut, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Montana.
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- Discount Retailer Expanding Into Iowa With New Location
(northiowatoday.com - 12/2/2022) The newest Iowa store of the popular retail chain TJ Maxx opened its doors this month in Spencer. This is the discount retailer’s second location in Iowa, and they plan to open more stores in the future. (full story)
- Dollar General Sees Q3 Sales Growth, Gives Real Estate Update
(progressivegrocer.com - 12/2/2022) The company executed nearly 800 real estate projects during the quarter and has thousands more in store for fiscal year 2023. The company opened 268 new stores during Q3, remodeled 485 stores and relocated 45. (full story)
- Wegmans lines up its next new store locations
(winsightgrocerybusiness.com - 12/2/2022) “We only open two to three stores a year, but we’re always busy focusing on different aspects of the store opening process,” Dan Aken, director of real estate at Wegmans, said in a blog post. “It’s amazing to see a site come to fruition once we can finally open our doors and welcome the community into the store.” (full story)
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