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title: "Fast Casual: Fazoli's Franchisees Break 12 Growth Records"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/2b9bc5a9-b21d-4c8b-b206-f8bda541a3af
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/fast-casual-fazolis-franchisees-break-12-growth-records-2706286
category: "Fast casual"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Fast casual"
published: 2018-04-16T16:11:26.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:09:23.455Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/815b19b2c87211c3ef325d16a79f5a235954.jpg
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# Fast Casual: Fazoli's Franchisees Break 12 Growth Records

**TL;DR:** Fazoli's broke 12 internal sales records at franchisee-owned restaurants in the first quarter of 2018. The brand has opened 5 new restaurants and has 7 more in the pipeline for 2018, marking its biggest development year in 16 years.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-04-16. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/fast-casual-fazolis-franchisees-break-12-growth-records-2706286).*

## Story

According to a recent article in Fast Casual, Italian-American franchise brand Fazoli’s broke twelve internal sales records at franchisee-owned restaurants in the first quarter of 2018. One of those records was set by a new unit in Hazard, Kentucky, which exceeded $100,00 in weekly sales for the first time in the franchise’s history.

Fazoli’s has opened five restaurants in markets across the U.S. since the beginning of 2018, and the brand has an additional seven locations in the pipeline set to open before the end of the year. Those 12 openings will mark the biggest development year for the franchise in 16 years. According to a press release cited in the article, volume at existing Fazoli’s restaurants is growing at nearly three times the industry average rate.

“We are pleased to report Fazoli's continued success for the first quarter of 2018," said Fazoli’s President and CEO Carl Howard in the press release. "The key to our company's success has been collaborating with our franchisees and listening to and understanding our guests' tastes and preferences and we have consistently evolved our brand strategy accordingly. There has truly never been a better time for our brand and it is showing in our record-breaking sales and strong franchise development.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- unit expansion (topic)
- franchise development (topic)
- FastCasual (publication)
- Fazoli's (company)
- sales records (topic)
- Hazard, Kentucky (location)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/fast-casual-fazolis-franchisees-break-12-growth-records-2706286). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/2b9bc5a9-b21d-4c8b-b206-f8bda541a3af).