The food franchise industry is the star of this week’s Friday Franchising News. In the past week, food franchises have found a way to beat the heat, and even profit from it. These franchises are expanding and growing their footprint in a big way through partnerships, international expansion, domestic recruiting, and the draw of the product. Find out what some of the country’s top restaurant, coffee shopand vending franchises are up to in this week’s delicious edition of Friday Franchising News.
Triple Two Coffee Celebrates Market Leading Success
The British Franchise Association (bfa) and HSBC have referenced Triple Two Coffee as the most recruited franchise of 2018. With 44 franchisees recruited so far, Triple Two Coffee is the most in-demand franchise of the year. The premium coffee franchise has stores set to open in Nottingham, Cirencester, Cheltenham, Croydon, Oxford, Southampton, Canterbury, Bristol and many more. The brand’s growth plan of opening 200 stores in the UK by 2022 is well on its way to fruition. Interested investors are encouraged to request information while they can to join this new and innovative coffee franchise with world class food and drink and unrivalled support systems.
Wrap It Up! Welcomes First International Franchise
Wrap It Up!, one of the leading gourmet wrap franchises in the UK, has announced its first international restaurant franchise in Lahore, Pakistan. The new location will be serving filling wraps inspired by global street food in the cultural capital of Pakistan. These restaurants feature fast, fresh and delicious wraps that have been a huge hit with a broad demographic of customers. Wrap It Up! is rapidly growing, with several restaurants planned to open in Pakistan in the near future. The franchise is seeking both international and domestic multi-unit franchise owners, providing help with location selection, full training and marketing support, and more!
With Thanks Partners With Delicious Ideals Food Group
With Thanks Vending, a leading confectionery and snack vending franchise, has announced that in July, the With Thanks brand and Barnack Confectionery Ltd merged with the Delicious Ideas Food Group. The new partnership means bigger and better things to come for With Thanks franchisees. With Thanks HQ has moved into swanky new offices, is now part of a bigger company, and has its own on-site warehouse facilities. The vending franchise is excited to expand its product range significantly with the addition of over 30 new product lines. This delicious new range will become available for franchisees to start ordering in August.
British Summer Spells Good News for Marston’s Pub
It may be unreasonably hot out right now, but Marston’s Pub isn’t upset about it. The summer heatwave has been extremely profitable for the pub franchise as customers flock to its beer gardens. Thanks to the weather and the World Cup, Marston’s Pub is celebrating an incredible 5% profit upturn in the last 16 weeks. So far this year, the franchise has reportedly sold 61% more beer than it did in 2017. The franchise is looking forward to continuing to quench people’s thirst in the second half of the year.