How Your Pie Guides Franchisees Through the Grand Opening Process

For the past decade, Your Pie has been at the forefront of the competitive craft pizza industry. With its down-the-line concept and high quality ingredients, the brand has emerged as the new standard for fast casual pizza concepts across the country. That momentum is still building today—Your Pie is bringing its model to new markets at impressive rates.

In the first half of the year alone, Your Pie opened up six new restaurants. It also signed agreements to open another 16 stores, bringing the total number of Your Pie locations in development to 49. The brand isn’t planning on slowing down any time soon—in fact, Your Pie has even more grand openings planned for the remaining two quarters of 2016.

One of those openings is underway in Moore, Oklahoma. Franchisee Jason Martin is launching his second location with the brand at the beginning of August after seeing success with his first unit. He says he decided to pursue multi-unit ownership with Your Pie because of its superior product.

Franchisee support system

“Our first Your Pie location caught on right away with the local community. Its brick oven pizzas really stand out in an industry that’s often filled with subpar products,” said Martin. “Plus, Your Pie makes multi-unit development incredibly simple. The support and guidance they provide throughout the entire opening process is impossible to beat.”

Your Pie’s corporate team brings years of business and franchise expertise to the table. They make themselves available to all of their local business owners who need a little extra help when getting a new restaurant off the ground. By helping franchisees stay on budget, choose the right real estate, market the brand and hire passionate employees, Your Pie puts its owners on the path to a successful business ownership experience.

“Running a successful restaurant starts long before owners open their doors to the public. That’s why we get in the ground level as a corporate team,” said Bucky Cook, Your Pie’s CEO. “We’ve been refining and perfecting Your Pie’s business model for years now, and we know what works. All of our franchisees can then tap into that wealth of information to make their grand opening as seamless and stress-free as possible.”

Grand opening success

That support system has proven itself to be invaluable to franchisees like Martin, and is a major driving force behind Your Pie’s continued success. Even though his second restaurant is on the verge of celebrating its grand opening, Martin is already making plans to grow with the brand again by opening a third location a few years down the line.

“Your Pie’s corporate team has been vital to both of our grand openings. It’s clear that they’re doing everything that they can to help us succeed—they’re absolutely in the business with us on the local level,” said Martin. “There’s no doubt in my mind that Your Pie will continue to enhance its model, and I’m excited to see the brand continue to build on its already impressive momentum.