TL;DR
The owners of the Howard Lake Pit-Stop, Dave and Sandy Rollins, have opened a new A&W restaurant in the same location. The restaurant is combined with a car wash and convenience store, aiming to increase sales and customer draw.
Dave and Sandy Rollins are the owners of the new A&W in Howard Lake. The Rollins’ are also owners of Howard Lake’s Pit-Stop, a gas station and coffee shop combination.
The restaurant industry is notoriously hard to break into, but Dave had an excellent reason to enter the QSR arena.
“Because we needed it to make more money than the car wash did,” Dave said with a laugh. The car wash was a part of the Pit-Stop, but Dave said, “It always needed to be fixed or repaired, and we weren’t getting the money we needed from it.” So, they built the A&W in the same location as the car wash.
The couple hopes the restaurant will be a draw for customers who will also use the Pit-Stop and that the convenience store will increase the restaurant’s sales.
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This story was originally published in 1851 Franchise on August 23, 2022. Burnaze summarizes and links to the original reporting.
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