Schlotzsky’s coming back to Paris this summer

Posted on Feb 2, 2013 in Business by Nic Huber

A Dallas-based franchise partner with Schlotzsky’s restaurant has signed an agreement to open a new location in Paris, according to Schlotzsky’s Communications Manager Amanda Palm.

The contract for the franchise was signed last December, and the company has been looking for a prospective location for the sandwich restaurant, as well as working on a lease and designing the restaurant.

“Our best guarantee is we’ll open in the summertime,” Palm told reporters. “Six to seven months is a quick turnaround, but that’s what we’re aiming for.”

Schlotzsky’s operated in Paris for several years on Lamar Avenue before the company declared bankruptcy in 2004.

In 2006, the sandwich restaurant was acquired byFocus Brands, an affiliate of private equity firm Roark Capital Group, parent company of Cinnabon, Carvel, Moe’s Southwest Grill, and Auntie Annie’s.

Palm told reporters that Schlotzsky’s would be the primary brand in the store, but will feature a co-brand with sister chain Cinnabon. The new location will also sell select Carvel ice cream products.

Source: eParisExtra.com

Schlotzsky’s-Cinnabon headed to The Colony, TX

Mark your calendars for Monday, December 17. The new Schlotzsky’s-Cinnabon opens in The Colony! Doors open at 8am, so get there early for your chance to win prizes. We’ll host a putting contest with Bobby Bun for your chance to win free sandwiches, contests for free Schlotzsky’s for a year, a prize wheel, balloon animals and more. Don’t miss it!

Monday, November 17 at 8am

6360 N. Josey Lane, The Colony, TX

*One small sandwich per week at this location for 52 consecutive weeks commencing on December 17, 2012 and expiring on December 17, 2013. Only valid for persons 18 years or older. Offer valid only at the The Colony Schlotzsky’s.

© 2012 Schlotzsky’s Franchise LLC. All rights reserved

Schlotzsky’s-Cinnabon-Carvel opens in North Dallas on July 9

 

Don’t miss out on your chance to get free Cinnabon & Schlotzsky’s! Come to the restaurant and sign up for the Bun & Fun eClub and you’ll be entered to win free Cinnabon & Schlotzsky’s for a year! And be sure to say hello to Bobby Bun and Fudgie the Whale while you’re there – they’ll get you set up to spin the wheel and win cool prizes including sandwiches, chips, hot sauce, frisbees, cookies and more. We’ll also have a putting green set up and if you manage to snag a hole in one, you’ll win free food!

Come back on Saturday, July 14 and hang out with Bobby and Fudgie again. We’ll have the putting green and prize wheel set up and you can bring the kids for lots of fun, including water balloon toss, football toss, and balloon animals!

We open bright and early at 8am Monday, July 9th.

19160 Preston Road

Dallas, TX 75252

Phone: (972) 996-1152

Schlotzsky’s-Cinnabon opens in Las Colinas on May 14

And don’t miss out on your chance to get free Cinnabon & Schlotzsky’s! Come to the restaurant and sign up for the Bun & Fun eClub and you’ll be entered to win free Cinnabon & Schlotzsky’s for a year! The restaurant is also giving away  a catering meal to five local businesses – all you have to do is drop your business card at the restaurant.

Stop by for the putting green for a chance to win free sandwich coupons. Just get a hole in one on the course! And Monday, Tuesday and Friday, from noon to 2pm, we’ll have a prize wheel you can spin for a chance to win sandwiches, chips, hot sauce, cookies, frisbees and more prizes!

We open bright and early at 8am Monday, May 14th.

4970 N. O’Connor Blvd

Irving (Las Colinas), TX 75039

Phone: 972-717-2015

Schlotzsky’s/Cinnabon Grand Opening in Coppell, TX

Schlotzsky’s will kick-off its grand opening celebration with a Chamber ribbon-cutting at 10:30 a.m. on September 2. Festivities continue throughout the day with games and prizes, free whiz rings and an appearance from Schlotzsky’s very own Bobby Bun. Plus, all weekend, guests have the opportunity to win free Schlotzsky’s for a year!

The Coppell Schlotzsky’s, located at 135 S. Denton Tap Road, is open every day from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Additionally, catering is also available by calling the Coppell location at (972) 393-3233.

SMU swimmers make a splash at new Schlotzsky’s

By Kirk Dooley

Earlier this summer the grand opening of the new Schlotzsky’s in Preston Center seemed more like a college pep rally than a restaurant premiere. The atmosphere was “campus hangout” although there was no campus.

The official greeter was Billy Bob Harris, who let his legendary personality set an upbeat tone for every person who walked in the door. Then all heads bowed and Monsignor Don Zimmerman  blessed the restaurant and everyone in it. Sandwiches were sampled, drinks flowed and congratulations rained down on Fernando and Adriana Lara, the University Park couple who opened the new eatery just west of Snuffer’s.

But why did the place feel like a college hangout?

The answer lies in the popularity of the Lara children – Pia, Fernando, Pablo and Sofia. Each had a group of friends at the grand opening. Pia, who just graduated from Southern Methodist University, was an SMU swim captain and is now the manager of the new Schlotzsky’s. Fernando (a junior) and Pablo (a freshman) are both on the Mustang swim team. Both boys were Highland Park swim team captains and Fernando was a high school all-American. Youngest sister Sofia is a 6th grader at McCulloch Intermediate School and she swims for the Dallas  Mustangs club team, as did all of her older siblings.

This is Fernando and Adriana’s seventh Schlotzsky’s franchise. Their first six are in Carrollton, Farmer’s  Branch, Addison and Richardson. All have been hangouts for the SMU swim team, but this one is different because it is much closer to campus. The swimmers like to play soccer on Fridays then head over to the Preston Center Schlotzsky’s afterwards. “They all feel at home here,” said Pablo.

Pia is the new manager. She is learning from her parents and oversees her brothers, who both work part-time.

“It’s nice working with family members because you can trust them,” said Pia. “And I like being the manager because you get to see the whole picture. And it’s nice when sales go up.”

The family moved from Mexico to Dallas in 2006. The four Lara children quickly made friends while the parents quickly opened Schlotzsky’s franchises. Swimming continued to be a family tradition. Pablo, who recently graduated from HPHS, was voted the school’s Hi-Lite King by the all-girl Hi-Lite Club.

“We are already busy during lunch,” said Pia, “and we just started offering breakfast, beginning at 6:00 a.m. Family dinners are picking up because we offer our oven-toasted sandwiches, pizza, soups, salads, wraps and desserts.

We serve breakfast all day long. And we have a nice group of families on Sundays after church.”

Schlotzsky’s began in Austin in 1971. It grew to 759 locations in 2011 and has recently been undergoing a systemwide reimaging and remodeling with its “Lotz Better” look.

With several thousand people working in the PReston Center office buildings, the new $1.99 breakfast Schlotz-ka-dillas and addictive Cinnabons will be a big hit. The free wireless internet already is.

If you go to the Preston Center Schlotzsky’s and don’t know what to order, just look for any SMU swimmers in the place and order whatever they  have. Tell them you’re a “friend of the Lara’s” and they’ll treat you like family.

Source: Dallas Morning News

Get The Original for just $1.99 in Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday, July 20

We have 53 newly remodeled restaurants in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and we want to show them off! Come visit any of our DFW-area restaurants tomorrow, July 20, and treat yourself to a small The Original sandwich for just $1.99! You’ll love our new Lotz Better look and feel, not to mention the 27 restaurants that have added Cinnabon! Come enjoy a sandwich and enter to win free Schlotzsky’s for a year! More than 50 people will win the prize.

Click here to find the Schlotzsky’s location near you. See you tomorrow! 

Schlotzsky’s-Cinnabon opens today in Dallas at Preston Center

Come join us today for the Grand Opening of the new Schlotzsky’s-Cinnabon in Dallas at Preston Center at 6125 Berkshire Drive. We’ll have free food from the menu from 7pm-9pm tonight only! Swing by and check out our new Hot Hitz sandwiches – the Albuquerque Turkey, Windy City Pastrami and Buffalo Chicken – try a pizza or a salad, or treat yourself to an ooey, gooey Cinnabon.

*Free food available TODAY from 7pm-9pm at this location ONLY

Free Samples & Events at Schlotzsky’s Grand Opening

If you’re anywhere near Euless, stop by the newest Schlotzsky’s location at 2830 State Highway 121 anytime this weekend. They’re celebrating they’re opening with three days of fun events and food. Here’s the schedule of events:

Friday, April 1 – Opening at 11 a.m. with a ribbon-cutting; enjoy free samples of sandwiches and Cinnabon rolls all day.

Saturday, April 2  and Sunday, April 3 – Family-friendly event scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on both days. Activities include a bounce house and exciting games such as toss the football and a spin wheel in which guests can win prizes.

If you  haven’t already, make sure to join the Bun & Fun eClub to receive notices of specials and coupons.

Source: Fort Worth on the Cheap

Formula for Small Business Success

It seems quite simple, but sometimes we make things so complicated – we apply strange procedures, change strategies, move schedules and do almost anything to change the status quo – but in the end we realize that in the beginning, we were booming and now it’s too complicated to get back to where we were.

Often we make sudden changes in our business and we feel or believe that those changes directly created improvement when, in reality, the improvement was due to external conditions.

My suggestion is that anytime we progress or worsen, we need to isolate the whole truth of that particular situation in order to avoid confusing the facts. It’s very easy to celebrate a victory or cry about a defeat, but it’s complicated to analyze the facts with cold minds and no feelings.

An example of this is if one day I start selling product “a,” which goes against the nature of my restaurant’s business and results in phenomenal sales. Then the next day, I sit down after the euphoria of that huge increment of sales to find out that none of my usual customers had bought product “a,” rather, a large group from a hotel behind my restaurant had come looking for that special product. If I had not done any research about sales of product “a” on that particular day, I would have most likely placed a large order for that product and sold only a few. My inventory would have skyrocketed and my sales would have seen no difference. This particular increase in sales would have been due to external conditions.

When it comes to maintaining a successful business, apply this basic formula: 1+1=2. It might sound silly, but in numerous occasions we try to create mathematical formulas, logarithms and algebraic functions to arrive with the same end result, but with much more effort.

My best advice would be to follow the simple formula above as well as to never sacrifice the quality of your product. Forfeiting the quality of your product may help to improve your sales in the short term, but it will take you out of the game in the future. A customer can forgive you for a high price, but they will never forgive bad quality, and if you are a part of a franchise, you do not want to sacrifice the brand’s quality because it will affect the entire system’s reputation.

If you’re involved in a franchise business, the most important thing to do to start improving is to follow the manuals provided. These are prescriptions for success. If you do not believe in the policies set forth, then do not get involved with that particular franchise. Instead, open your own business under your own rules. I can assure you that in the long term, these formulas have proven to be efficient if they are fulfilled. If you are looking to open up a franchise, make sure to research the franchise business you want to get involved with: the brand, the business model and the other franchisees, because if you follow the same rules as the other triumphed owners, then the entire business will have an even larger chance for success.

Born in Veracruz, Mexico, Fernando Lara-Celis has recently opened his 6th successful Schlotzsky’s franchise in the Dallas area. He can be reached at Fvlara@sbcglobal.net.

Source: Corp! Magazine