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Sprinkles Cupcakes Adapts Its Prototype
As the progenitor or the cupcake craze of the late 2000s, Sprinkles has outlasted the competition — fitting, since owner Candace Nelson serves as a judge on the series Cupcake Wars. Known for its rotating menu of cupcakes, ice cream and cookies, as well as its “cupcake ATM,” the chain has 22 locations in 10 states across the U.S.
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Gigi's Opens Test Kitchen/Corporate Training Center
Gigi's Cupcakes has opened a corporate training center and test kitchen in the Nashville, Tenn., area.
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Menu Diversification, New Design Fuels Gigi's Cupcakes' Growth
Recent menu-diversification efforts to drive more traffic across multiple dayparts, coupled with a new design prototype that better accommodates those broader offerings, is sweetening sales and expansion plans at Gigi's Cupcakes. -
Soup-Centric Concepts Hit Consumers’ Hot Buttons
Sure, it's good for what ails you, but soup can also be good for business — at least in the hands of creative entrepreneurs with a reverence for the perfect bowl of soup. From burgeoning fast-casual chains to funky food trucks to urban microsouperies delivering weekly "soupscriptions," soup-centric concepts are popping up all over.