Fatz Cafe Honored Among Nation’s Best In Sales
July 15, 2009
Taylors, S.C. - Fatz Cafe, the 47-unit Southeastern restaurant chain and home of World Famous Calabash Chicken®, was ranked on the Restaurants & Institutions magazine's 2009 "Top 400" list as one of the leading restaurant chains in the country. The annual "Top 400" list recognizes Fatz Cafe for increasing total year-over-year revenues (2007-2008), which resulted in the company jumping from #266 on the "Top 400" list to its newest position at #245.
"Despite the challenges restaurants
are facing due to economic pressures, we have remained focused on
our fundamentals, which have always been offering great food in a
warm, friendly atmosphere," said Steve Bruce, president and CEO of
Cafe Enterprises, parent company of Fatz Cafe. "It is quite an
accomplishment for Fatz Cafe to be recognized among many successful
restaurant concepts from such a well-respected restaurant industry
news source."
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About Cafe Enterprises:
The first Fatz Cafe opened in a converted fruit shed in
Spartanburg, S.C., in November 1988. Cafe Enterprises Inc. was
formed to serve as the parent company to the new restaurant and the
others that would follow. Headquartered in Taylors, S.C., Cafe
Enterprises now owns and operates 47 Fatz Cafe restaurants
throughout the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia and
employs over 3,600 associates. Fatz Cafe, ranked #52 in the
2007 South Carolina 100SM
list of the state's largest privately owned companies, has also
been named one of the nation's top 400 restaurant concepts
by Restaurants & Institutions magazine for the
past seven years, most recently ranking #245. In
2008, Chain Leader magazine included Fatz Cafe in its
"Top 50 Chains Under 50 Units." For more information,
visit www.fatzcafe.com.
