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title: "Nation's Restaurant News: Checkers & Rally's Partners with Local Franchisees and Experts to Find the Best Real Estate"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/bcac862b-af6e-4a77-a2f5-a8679b372290
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-checkers-rallys-partners-with-local-franchisees-and-experts-to-find-the-best-real-estate-11885
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
published: 2017-04-21T02:21:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:11:18.332Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/b2a9040bd39e7daa1d6de3e0f47ed5f96722.jpg
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# Nation's Restaurant News: Checkers & Rally's Partners with Local Franchisees and Experts to Find the Best Real Estate

**TL;DR:** Checkers & Rally's partners with local franchisees and experts to find the best real estate for new locations. The company leverages analytics and local knowledge to target markets.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2017-04-21. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-checkers-rallys-partners-with-local-franchisees-and-experts-to-find-the-best-real-estate-11885).*

## Story

Locals in any community can recommend the best restaurants in town, but they also know the prime places to open one. That's why franchisors tapping into new markets focus on finding a local franchisee to open restaurants.

"What we bring is the brand and the science around site selection, and that's how we target markets," said Jennifer Durham, chief development officer for Checkers & Rally's. "What [local franchisees] bring is color commentary."

Durham shared examples with Nation's Restaurant News about opening locations in different parts of Texas for the first time and how different flavors fit various communities.

"Analytics will help direct you to a certain area," Durham said. "It never replaces local knowledge that the franchisee would have of that market."

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- unit expansion (topic)
- texas (location)
- Nation's Restaurant News (publication)
- Checkers (company)
- site selection (topic)
- Jennifer Durham (person)
- local franchisees (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-checkers-rallys-partners-with-local-franchisees-and-experts-to-find-the-best-real-estate-11885). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/bcac862b-af6e-4a77-a2f5-a8679b372290).