A And W Grants First Multi-Site Development Agreement In Ontario
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A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. is pleased to announce it has awarded the company’s first ever multi-site new restaurant development agreement in Ontario. The agreement was awarded to existing franchisees Upinder Dhanoa and Sandy Gill and calls for the development 12 new A&W restaurants in the Hamilton, Burlington and Milton region to occur over the next 5 years.
Late last year, the company announced its intentions to accelerate new restaurant growth by adopting a multi-site approach to all future franchise development in Ontario. The Hamilton/Burlington/Milton agreement represents a landmark in the company’s 50 year history as a franchisor and according to Graham Cooke, A&W’s Vice President of New Restaurant Expansion, is the first of many to come.
“We are just delighted to have franchisees of the calibre of Upinder, Sandy and their family, spearhead this new approach to growing the A&W brand much more rapidly in Ontario. They have already proven their excellence as A&W operators and have the operational, financial and organizational capability to expand at an accelerated pace.” Cooke went on to say that the company is about to finalize several more multi-site agreements in other parts of Ontario. Typically, each agreement will call for a commitment to build and operate 4-6 restaurants over a fixed period of time within a pre-designated geographical area. So far, all of the activity has been confined to existing franchisees.
