I was asking the franchiser of the Jersey Mike's location in front of Target if he had given up on putting in a second location in TV. Last year he opened a second location in Mt. Dora when he couldn't find a suitable place at Brownwood. He said they were putting in a small strip center next to Fresh Market and he was hoping to put a Jersey Mike's in there. They had requested their usual size footprint, a 1200 sf store at Brownwood and TV told them they had to rent at least 4,000 sf. They were unable to go into any of the new shopping centers at Pinellas, Traverse or Rohan because TV gave Subway an exclusive on those.
Nationally Jersey Mike's opened 197 stores in just 2015, which put them over 1,000 locations. They are now America's fastest growing restaurant chain and currently have 1500 locations either open or under construction.
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