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October 04, 2005
Snazzy
Here's a fabulous idea. A place like Buffalo has one major thing going for it: excellent food. They need to cash in on it, and the fine folks at the Anchor Bar are taking that first step. Here's hoping they succeed.
The Main Street bar that invented a spicy hot late night chicken wing snack and made it famous far beyond Buffalo's borders is ready to sell "Anchor Bar" franchises nationwide with a West Coast twist.
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Each franchise will have the tavern look of the Anchor Bar with the same kind of entrance decor - a buffalo head with wings behind the ears and a five and a half foot tall statue of liberty holding a plate of wings.
"Once you walk in that door you're going to think you're in the Anchor Bar back in Buffalo," said Veyette.
The franchise plan began when the restaurant's two co-owners considered proposals and sought advice. Edith Bellissimo, the widow of the founders' son, owns the Anchor Bar with a former employee Ivano Toscani. The pair are now partners in the franchise company. The other partners are Veyette and Henry Weber, an old friend of Veyette's and the president of ReMax of New York, a real estate franchise.
Posted by oz115 at October 4, 2005 07:37 AM
Comments
Maybe I'll make my first million by opening up Chicago's first beef on weck stand.
Posted by: Pete at October 4, 2005 10:01 AM