East Coast Wings Announces Franchise Expansion in North Carolina

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East Coast Wings + Grill ("ECW+G"), the full-service household eating franchise, is expanding successful North Carolina with a caller Piedmont country location with one of the brand's archetypal franchise owners, Brent and Sherry Weaver. Targeting a second quarter opening in 2027, the new restaurant will serve arsenic a go-to casual eating destination for helping lovers, known for its 50+ flavors and 7 vigor levels of award-winning wings, on with a thoughtfully crafted, family-friendly menu. 

Who is Behind the Location 

The Weavers grew up successful Davidson County, and the mates now calls Lexington, NC home, which makes focusing connected the Piedmont country an easy outcome. Over the past two decades, the Weavers person built a portfolio of ECW+G locations crossed North Carolina, including Winston-Salem and Mt Airy.  

"East Coast Wings + Grill has been a ample portion of our life. I grew up in Davidson County and 21 years agone I heard that East Coast Wings + Grill Corporate was investigating a tract adjacent my region and I said, 'we should beryllium the franchise owners successful that market.' I approached the CEO and the remainder is history," said Brent. "The Piedmont area is successful need of more full-service helping spots, and we knew we were the ones to expand it. Opening our adjacent location, on property we ain and develop, is something we've worked toward for much than twenty years. We can't hold to bring it to the area that raised us."  

The Weavers are also planning for the future, structuring the concern for a generational transportation to their son, Andrew, who volition yet instrumentality implicit operations and support the family's concern rooted successful the assemblage for years to come. The maturation comes as North Carolina was precocious named 1 of the Top 10 franchise maturation markets in a report from the International Franchise Association.  

An Investment Built connected Unit Level Economics 

What makes the task distinctive is however the Weavers are approaching it. They are developing a site from the crushed up truthful they tin ain the existent property and service arsenic their ain landlords. Their plans widen beyond a azygous restaurant; the Weavers are developing a retail center, with the ECW+G determination arsenic the anchor. 

When the Weavers wanted existent property guidance, they turned to the brand, thing ECW+G franchise owners bash regularly. CEO and Founder, Sam Ballas, brings a concern and Wall Street background to the brand. He besides holds the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation and owns a commercialized existent property firm, giving owners entree to non-traditional guidance that reaches good past day-to-day operations.