LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In celebration of its first Indiana location hosting a grand opening in Lebanon on Wednesday, Savvy Sliders additionally unveiled plans for its second and third areas, to be inbuilt Tippecanoe County.
The Michigan-based fast-food chain centered on sliders opened its first retailer in 2018. Since then, it has expanded into Ohio, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Louisiana and now Indiana.
This is what we all know concerning the two deliberate shops for Tippecanoe County.
The place will Savvy Sliders open in Lafayette?
A Lafayette retailer is deliberate for 2862 Previous U.S. 231 S., in accordance with Savvy Sliders’ web site.
Mike Bauer, a Lafayette-based enterprise proprietor who owns 22 Subway shops throughout Lafayette and Terre Haute, is the person behind bringing the Michigan-born chain to the Hoosier state.
The place will Savvy Sliders open in West Lafayette?
The second retailer in Tippecanoe County might be seated on the opposite aspect of the Wabash River at 1060 Sagamore Parkway W. in West Lafayette.
What made Bauer resolve to convey Savvy Sliders to Indiana?
Bauer stated he’d by no means heard of Savvy Sliders till he obtained a chilly name from the chain’s headquarters.
“They’d informed me they’d heard about me as a franchise proprietor and have been excited by having a dialog with me about their model. Being a enterprise individual, I will by no means flip down a dialog, so I spent about 20 minutes on the cellphone with them,” Bauer stated. “I checked out their social media pages and thought the idea was fairly attention-grabbing.”
After that preliminary dialog, Bauer stated he and his girlfriend deliberate a weekend journey to Michigan, visiting practically two dozen Savvy Sliders areas. Upon witnessing the shops’ build-out fashions, attempting the restaurant’s number of menu choices and assembly a number of staff, Bauer stated he realized Savvy Sliders was every thing he’d been searching for in a restaurant.
With confirmed areas in Lebanon, Lafayette and West Lafayette, Bauer stated he has about 5 different areas round Indiana he’s eyeing.
Bauer stated he was intentional within the location decisions for his eating places, notably the Previous U.S. 231 location, figuring out firsthand the necessity for extra eating places in that space.
“That may be a heavy residential space, they usually should not must drive all the way in which out to the interstate or to Purdue’s campus to get a chunk to eat. Having a Subway location already on that aspect of city and having my places of work over there, I’ve skilled it myself,” Bauer stated. “I get what nationwide chains are doing once they assemble plans to construct shops over in these areas, however I’m all the time looking for methods to serve this neighborhood. I am native, and I am right here on this neighborhood, and I wish to be the place my individuals want me.”
What’s Savvy Sliders’ meals and enterprise idea?
These aren’t your typical sliders, Bauer stated, which appealed to him.
Every slider burger is about 2 ounces, Bauer stated, which is on the bigger aspect for a slider. Utilizing recent, by no means frozen, meat, battering and marinating hen made to order, Bauer stated every thing in a Savvy Sliders restaurant is made to order.
One of many different main appeals to the chain, Bauer stated, was Savvy Sliders’ “Extra 2 Love” charitable basis. Having the philanthropic wing of the enterprise was the same draw as Subway’s mannequin with the “Subway Cares Basis.”
“This provides us the chance to proceed serving to these in our neighborhood that we serve daily,” Bauer stated. “With this philanthropic arm, we are able to do issues like internet hosting events for deprived children, back-to-school giveaways, and listening to different methods our neighborhood wants us. Being native is essential to me, and that is what Savvy Sliders affords.”
Jillian Ellison is a reporter for the Journal and Courier. She could be reached by way of e mail at jellison@gannett.com. Observe her on X at @ellison_writes.
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