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Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers opened 31 new restaurants in the first half of 2018 and achieved 14.5 percent system-wide sales growth year over year. An additional 20 new restaurants are slated to open by year’s end.
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Lake Forest, Calif.-based Del Taco is hungry for growth. This Mexican brand — strong on the West Coast and in the Southwest — is making its way east with targeted expansions in Atlanta and Orlando, Fla.
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Bennigan’s is in the midst of an effort to bring the brand back from the brink with its latest location in Mandan, N.D., Co-Owner Gwen Mangiamele’s hometown.
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Fork & Salad, a Maui, Hawaii-based health-forward fast-casual concept with two locations on the island, will debut its first mainland U.S. restaurant in Orange, Calif., later this year.
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Experience-focused emerging coffee chain Alfred Coffee opened its eighth location, this one in new the LINE LA hotel in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood.
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Arkansas-based Slim Chickens, a fast-casual “better chicken” chain opened a corporate-owned restaurant in its headquarters market of Fayetteville in August.
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Build-your-own poké concept Pokeatery will be opening its first East Coast location in Charlotte, N.C., inside the Epicentre shopping center, before year’s end.
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The Hummus & Pita Co. opened its first franchised location in Brookfield, Conn., in August.