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Family
Franchise Business Brings
Three
Dickey’s Barbecue Pit Locations to Eastern Michigan
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Owner/Operators
Ed and Carrie Wenzel will
open new stores
in Sterling Heights and Auburn Hills
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Macomb
Township, MI – March 2016 / Newsmaker Alert / Dickey’s
Barbecue Pit is expanding in Michigan with a franchise development
agreement for three stores. Owner/Operators Ed and Carrie Wenzel have recently
become the new owners of the Macomb Township location and will open two
new locations in Sterling Heights and Auburn Hills. The Sterling Heights
location is slated to open by summer 2016, and the Auburn Hills location
will follow by the end of the year. As a family business, they plan to
give their twins a professional start in the restaurants, eventually turning
over ownership. For now, however, Ed and Carrie will co-manage the new
stores.
Having
spent their careers in the auto industry, the Wenzels had dreamed along
with their family of opening a restaurant for years. When the time was
right, the couple researched franchise concepts in which to invest. They
chose Dickey’s Barbecue Pit because of the high-quality product, low franchise
fees and ongoing training and marketing support. “We are excited to offer
delicious Texas-style barbecue to these communities,” Carrie says. “We
believe in Dickey’s family-owned brand and look forward to expanding our
family business with it.”
Carrie
Wenzel graduates Barbecue University, Dickey’s four-week training program
for Owner/Operators, on March 25. Barbecue University trains Owner/Operators
in all aspects of restaurant ownership, from slow smoking meat to customer
service.
“The
Dickey family congratulates Ed and Carrie Wenzel on their first store opening,
and we look forward to supporting the opening of their next two locations,”
says Roland Dickey, Jr., CEO of Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants, Inc. “We
currently have seven Dickey’s locations in Michigan and look forward to
further expanding in the region.”
To
learn more about franchising with Dickey’s, visit www.dickeys.com/franchise
or call 866-340-6188.
To
find the Dickey’s Barbecue Pit nearest you, click
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About
Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants, Inc.
Dickey’s
Barbecue Restaurants, Inc., the nation’s largest barbecue chain was founded
in 1941 by Travis Dickey with the goal of authentic slow smoked barbecue.
Today, all meats are still slow smoked on-site in each restaurant living
up to the company tagline, “We
Speak Barbecue.” The Dallas-based family-run barbecue franchise offers
a quality selection of signature meats, home style sides, tangy barbecue
sauce and free kids’ meals every Sunday. The fast-casual concept has expanded
to over 540 locations in 43 states. Dickey’s was recognized for the third
year by Nation’s Restaurant News as a “Top 10 Growth Chain” and
by Technomic as the “Fastest-growing restaurant chain in the country.”
For more information, visit www.dickeys.com
or for barbecue franchise opportunities call 866-340-6188.
Media
Contacts:
Kimberly
Harms / Michelle George
972-248-9899
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