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Chains tweak unit layouts to continue growing in tough real estate market
By Ron Ruggless
Flexible restaurant designs are giving operators an advantage when faced with a real estate market that offers fewer pristine rectangles available for developing and growing concepts.
Chains like Subway, McAlister’s Deli, La Madeleine Country French Café and The Greene Turtle are getting a leg up on the competition by equipping themselves with several different designs that can adapt to atypically shaped footprints or spaces previously occupied by other retail tenants.
Frank Paci, president and chief executive of Ridgeland, Miss.-based McAlister’s Deli, said one of the challenges for growth today is a concept’s ability to find locations in a real estate market that has less virgin space because of new-construction cutback...
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