Fatz Cafe Honored Among Nation’s Best In Sales

July 15, 2009 - PRLog -- Fatz Cafe Honored Among Nation’s Best In Sales

MEDIA CONTACT:
Margo Mize / Director of Marketing
864-322-1331, ext. 518/mmize@fatzcafe.com

Taylors, S.C. – Fatz Cafe, the 47-unit Southeastern restaurant chain and home of World Famous Calabash Chicken®, was ranked on the Restaurants & Institutions magazine’s 2009 “Top 400” list as one of the leading restaurant chains in the country. The annual “Top 400” list recognizes Fatz Cafe for increasing total year-over-year revenues (2007-2008), which resulted in the company jumping from #266 on the “Top 400” list to its newest position at #245.

“Despite the challenges restaurants are facing due to economic pressures, we have remained focused on our fundamentals, which have always been offering great food in a warm, friendly atmosphere,” said Steve Bruce, president and CEO of Cafe Enterprises, parent company of Fatz Cafe. “It is quite an accomplishment for Fatz Cafe to be recognized among many successful restaurant concepts from such a well-respected restaurant industry news source.”

About Cafe Enterprises:
The first Fatz Cafe opened in a converted fruit shed in Spartanburg, S.C., in November 1988. Cafe Enterprises Inc. was formed to serve as the parent company to the new restaurant and the others that would follow. Headquartered in Taylors, S.C., Cafe Enterprises now owns and operates 47 Fatz Cafe restaurants throughout the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia and employs over 3,600 associates. Fatz Cafe, ranked #52 in the 2007 South Carolina 100^SM list of the state’s largest privately owned companies, has also been named one of the nation’s top 400 restaurant concepts by Restaurants & Institutions magazine for the past seven years, most recently ranking #245. In 2008, Chain Leader magazine included Fatz Cafe in its "Top 50 Chains Under 50 Units." For more information, visit www.fatzcafe.com.

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Serving great American food with a Southern twist at a great value and in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere, Fatz Cafe has garnered a strong local reputation and natiional recognition.