TL;DR
Your Pie has opened its first location in Nashville and plans to open three more in the market. The brand partnered with SMS Holdings Corporation to expand into the area.
Your Pie is entering the Nashville market for the first time, with plans to open a location in the North Gulch area.
According to the Nashville Post, Music City is an area the brand had been targeting for expansion for quite some time due to the strong demographic fit and booming growth. The locally based SMS Holdings Corporation was the perfect partner to do so.
“It exciting to enter the Nashville market,” Your Pie VP of Development Ken Caldwell told the Nashville Post. “We were waiting to find the right partner. And when SMS found us, we realized we had a strong franchisee with lots of experience and a track record of success. With the growth Nashville is seeing, we feel this is the perfect recipe for success."
This is the first restaurant brand that SMS Holdings Corporation has partnered with and the group has plans to open three additional locations in the market.
“After researching many fast-casual pizza concepts, we were very impressed with the Your Pie quality of product and people involved in the company,” Dan Rakestraw, President, Acquisitions & Partnerships at SMS Holdings Corporation told the Nashville Post.
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This story was originally published in 1851 Franchise on May 15, 2017. Burnaze summarizes and links to the original reporting.
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