Port Washington-based Burger Brothers Restaurant Group has signed a franchise settlement to carry a brand new fast-casual chain to Lengthy Island.
Burger Brothers, headed by franchise veterans John Froccaro and Jeff Froccaro, can be bringing Dave’s Sizzling Rooster to the realm with 14 new eating places in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens counties over the following 5 years.
The plan is to open seven of the California-based chain’s eating places on Lengthy Island and one other seven in Queens. The franchisees are at present securing applicable places that vary in dimension from 2,000 to 2,700 sq. toes, which might be endcaps and freestanding places, with or with out drive-thru capability, in line with an organization assertion.
“Once we started our seek for a model so as to add to our portfolio, we knew that we needed to be concerned with a model that provided the highest-end product, unbelievable company management, and unmatched client pleasure,” John Froccaro stated within the assertion. “From the early phases of exploring the chance with Dave’s Sizzling Rooster we knew it was precisely what we have been in search of. Our group is thrilled to work with Dave’s Sizzling Rooster and ship an distinctive restaurant choice to our space.”
The Froccaros and their longtime enterprise associate Harry Braunstein are veterans of the meals franchise business and personal and function 33 Burger King eating places positioned all through Nassau and Suffolk counties, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. The franchisees additionally personal eight Qdoba Mexican Eats eating places within the space.
Over the previous decade, a 3rd era of Froccaro relations have joined the corporate and are closely concerned in its operations and growth of a rising restaurant portfolio.
“John and Jeff carry unbelievable expertise and business experience to the desk, and we couldn’t be extra thrilled to work with them,” Invoice Phelps, CEO of Dave’s Sizzling Rooster, stated within the assertion. “Their ambition and information, mixed with the help and steering from Dave’s Sizzling Rooster is the proper recipe for fulfillment. We’re excited to see the expansion of the model within the Queens and Lengthy Island markets, made attainable by the Froccaros.”
Dave’s Sizzling Rooster makes a speciality of Nashville-style scorching hen tenders and sliders, with spice ranges starting from “No Spice” to “Reaper.” Every restaurant additionally serves sides of house-made kale slaw, macaroni and cheese and crispy fries or cheese fries.
Based in 2017 by Arman Oganesyan, Chef Dave Kopushyan, and brothers Tommy and Gary Rubenyan, Dave’s Sizzling Rooster obtained its begin with a car parking zone pop-up, earlier than opening a brick-and-mortar location in East Hollywood.
In 2019, the founders struck a cope with Wetzel’s Pretzels co-founder and former CEO, Invoice Phelps, and film producer John Davis to start franchising the Dave’s Sizzling Rooster idea all through the U.S. and past.
The corporate has offered the rights to over 599 franchise places within the U.S. and Canada and can open a further 75 places this yr. Further model traders embody music artist Drake, former California First Girl Maria Shriver, Crimson Sox proprietor Tom Werner, actor Samuel L. Jackson, and Good Morning America anchor and retired NFL participant Michael Strahan.
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