Large Hen, the star-powered rooster idea based by legendary basketball Corridor of Famer Shaquille O’Neal, is breaking floor in Houston with its first signed lease in a serious multi-unit deal.
A part of a 50-unit settlement throughout the state’s 4 largest metro areas – Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin – Large Hen’s first Texas location in Houston is a serious milestone within the model’s Texas takeover. Positioned in Woodland Sq. at 9660 Westheimer Street #250 within the Mid-West space of Houston, Large Hen is taking a BIG chew of one of many metropolis’s most highly-trafficked purchasing, eating and leisure hubs simply down the road from the Houston Galleria mall.
“Our efforts during the last a number of months have all culminated on this thrilling second,” says Fazil Malik, co-owner of the brand new Houston restaurant alongside Frank Malik and Noordin Jhaver. “When searching for new alternatives, we knew we wanted to associate with a model that matched the colourful spirit of Texas, and Shaquille O’Neal’s daring, colourful Large Hen match the invoice. We’re thrilled to be debuting our first of many eating places in Houston.”
Behind the brand new location is a trio of extremely completed multi-unit operators with expertise within the retail, restaurant and comfort areas. The Maliks make up two elements of the staff, well-known for his or her operation of Northwest Petroleum (NWP), a fuel station and comfort firm, in addition to Skylark Development, a retail and restaurant improvement and development firm. Jhaver is the CEO of considered one of Texas’ most distinguished restaurant and retail real-estate possession corporations, Dew Actual Property Holdings L.L.C., in addition to a multi-unit operator of over 50 Sonic eating places with 45 extra areas in improvement. A partnership 30 years within the making, the Maliks and Jhaver joined forces to convey BIG taste and BIG enjoyable with 50 Large Hen areas in Texas.
“This primary lease kicks off our BIG progress plans for Large Hen in Texas inside 4 of the nation’s largest cities,” says Josh Halpern, CEO of Large Hen. “Fazil, Frank and Noordin have impressed us since our first assembly, and we’re thrilled to have fun this unbelievable milestone with them. With our confirmed progress technique focusing on prime retail locations throughout the nation alongside seasoned multi-unit operators, Large Hen Texas is primed for enormous success.”
Because the announcement of Large Hen’s franchising initiative just below one 12 months in the past, the model has greater than 150 areas in its improvement pipeline. Upcoming franchise enlargement consists of new eating places in Illinois, California, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Ohio, Idaho, Utah, Tennessee and Nevada. Large Hen presently has an present location open in Las Vegas together with eating places in Los Angeles, Seattle’s Local weather Pledge Enviornment, metro-New York’s UBS Enviornment, The Moody Middle in Austin and on two Carnival Cruise ships.
Superb franchisees are multi-unit operators who belief and perceive the established system Large Hen has in place and have the capital to open a number of models. Restaurant expertise — whether or not conventional or not — is most well-liked, however not required. With important curiosity from new house owners, franchise buyers may have the benefit to affix a model on the cusp of worldwide enlargement.
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