Owings Mills, Md. — UFood Grill, a healthy fast-casual restaurant chain, opened its first restaurant in Maryland on January 27, 2017 at Metro Centre at Owings Mills near Baltimore.
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Lake Buena Vista, Fla. — Levy Restaurants will open Paddlefish, its newest dining experience at Disney Springs, on February 4, 2017. The seafood-centric restaurant, formerly known as Fulton’s Crab House, has undergone an extensive, multimillion-dollar transformation.
Dallas — Pollo Campero, the world’s largest Latin chicken restaurant brand, is expanding in Texas with the opening of three new restaurants in Houston. The first opened this week. Two others are slated to open in first quarter 2017 and will bring the total number of Pollo Campero restaurants in the Bayou City to eight.
Atlanta — Church’s Chicken® has signed a new franchising deal with Florida Chicken LLC, which has secured the rights to open 10 new restaurants in Florida. New markets slated for development include multiple restaurants in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Orlando, with another 10-restaurant deal expected to follow in 2021.
Atlanta — Tropical Smoothie Cafe, a leading fast-casual cafe concept, signed franchise agreements to develop more than 160 new cafes across the U.S. in 2016 and closed out the year with 86 new restaurant openings, expanding the brand’s presence in cities nationwide including Charleston, S.C.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Dallas and Houston.
Hollywood, Calif. — Wahlburgers, the better burger restaurant brand founded by Chef Paul Wahlberg and celebrity brothers Mark and Donnie, will expand to Asia in 2017 through a joint venture with Cachet Hospitality Group (CHG). The first three restaurants are slated to open in Hangzhou, Wuhan and Shanghai, China. The objective is to open 100 restaurants in China and the surrounding region over the next 5 years.
Glendale, Calif. — DineEquity, Inc., one of the world’s largest full-service restaurant companies, has signed four new multi-unit development agreements in the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America. These agreements will play an important role in the company’s plan to double international locations over the next 5 years.