Fatz Cafe
Fatz Cafe Recognized As A Leading Restaurant Concept In America By Restaurants & Institutions Magazine
July 21, 2008
Taylors, S.C. – Fatz Cafe, the 45-unit Southeastern casual dining restaurant chain and home of World Famous Calabash Chicken, was recently included for the sixth year in a row in Restaurants & Institutions magazine’s 2008 “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 (2006-2007) by 15.3 percent — far outdistancing the reported average of 5.4 percent in aggregate revenue increases for the largest multi-unit chains who made the list.
Restaurants & Institutions also recognized Fatz Cafe for increasing its number of company-owned and operated restaurants by 14.3 percent (2006-2007), which resulted in the company jumping from spot #282 on the “Top 400” list to its newest position at #266.
“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 45 Fatz Cafe restaurants throughout the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia and employs more than 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 six years, most recently ranking #266. In 2007, Technomic named Fatz Cafe as one of the “Top 100 Emerging Chain Concepts in America.” For more information, visit www.fatzcafe.com.
