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title: "Paris Baguette Opens First Location in Tennessee"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/ab9a367f-b47e-47e5-a9cf-98791ee69a42
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/parisbaguette/what-now-nashville-paris-baguette-opens-first-location-in-tennessee-2724527
category: "Retail"
industry: "Retail"
topics: ["Development & multi-unit"]
published: 2023-12-20T19:14:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T01:12:07.414Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/09133b9bbce6ae75ce8b3fcb474fd6ef4408.jpg
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# Paris Baguette Opens First Location in Tennessee

**TL;DR:** Paris Baguette will open its first location in Tennessee in 2024, in the town of Franklin. The global bakery café franchise has over 4,000 locations around the world and aims to sign 160 new franchise agreements in 2023.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2023-12-20. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/parisbaguette/what-now-nashville-paris-baguette-opens-first-location-in-tennessee-2724527).*

## Story

Paris Baguette, the global bakery café franchise with over 4,000 locations around the world, is making their debut in Tennessee. The first location will open sometime in 2024 in Nashville’s neighboring town of Franklin, according to a franchise agreement with owner Jim Osborn.

The opening will bring the Paris Baguette’s fresh pastries, warm breads, crafted coffees, signature cakes and grab-and-go salads and sandwiches to Franklin as their new neighborhood bakery café.

“We are thrilled to announce additional expansion within Tennessee. There’s a tremendous amount of opportunity in the bakery café space,” said Eric Lavinder, Paris Baguette’s Chief Development Officer, in a press release. “No other bakery café franchisors are doing what Paris Baguette is on the same scale. Our ability to stay true to our bakery café roots while embracing aggressive expansion has garnered attention, and that only serves to drive us forward.”

The opening comes as the franchise announced a goal of signing 160 new franchise agreements in 2023. The exact address of the new location is forthcoming.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- unit expansion (topic)
- Retail (sector)
- franchise agreement (topic)
- Paris Baguette (company)
- Tennessee (location)
- bakery cafe (topic)
- Eric Lavinder (person)
- Franklin (location)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/parisbaguette/what-now-nashville-paris-baguette-opens-first-location-in-tennessee-2724527). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/ab9a367f-b47e-47e5-a9cf-98791ee69a42).