Restaurant & QSR Expansion Report

Agreements for FL & GA…….

McAlister’s Deli has signed three development agreements with new and existing franchisees that will see restaurants opening in Southern Georgia and North, Central and Southwest Florida. Existing franchisee DMAC 81 LLC, based in Summerville in South Carolina, plan to open…

Fuddruckers Opens in Maine…….

Franchisee B&B Burgers Inc. has opened the first Fuddruckers family-oriented fast casual restaurant in Maine at a Tradewinds convenience store complex on Route 1A in Ellsworth in May.  The 3000 square foot sports-themed restaurant offers both indoor and patio dining…

Purchase Creates Category Leader…….

Late in May, Bradenton, Florida-based breakfast, brunch and lunch chain First Watch Restaurants Inc. reported that it has acquired the 114-unit Centennial, Colorado.-based The Egg & I Restaurants chain of restaurants.  The transaction positions First Watch Restaurants as the nation’s…

WOB Coming to Connecticut Post…..

In April, 2016, Attitude Beer Holding Co., a subsidiary of Harrison, Vickers & Waterman Inc., will open its second World of Beer Tavern at the Westfield Connecticut Post shopping mall in Milford, Connecticut. Construction is expected to start in January…

Shack Re-opens Flagship…..

In mid-May, Shake Shack celebrated the reopening of the original Madison Square Park flagship restaurant in New York. The new Shake Shack offers the same look and feel guests around the world have known for ten years. “When Shake Shack…

Anticipating East Coast Growth…..

In mid-June, Smallcakes Cupcakery and Creamery will be opening a street front location on N. Greenview Ave. at N. Lincoln Ave. and W. Barry Ave. in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. The unit is about 1000 square feet. It was little more…

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