MRM Franchise Feed: Flatbread Grill Going Around the Globe and Wahlburgers Does the Impossible

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Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise environment.

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Flatbred Grill Sisters Looking to FranchiseFlatbread Grill®, the fast casual Mediterranean bakery and grill founded by the Esendemir Sisters, top photo, in 2007, is now available as a franchise. Headquartered in the sisters' hometown of Hoboken, NJ, its franchise model will be offered to qualified operators interested in single or multi-location opportunities and regional territories all over the world. Fusun, Gonca, and Arzu Esendemir, who become the first Turkish-American women in the world to start and expand a fast casual restaurant concept, built Flatbread Grill® entirely on their own. They developed the menu, brand identity, oversaw the buildout of their company stores, directed the operations, and did all of their marketing in-house.

"My sisters and I…