MRM Franchise Feed: White Castle Weddings, Ground Round Growing and KFC in Space

Modern Restaurant Management magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise environment. Send items of interest to Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com.

New Growth for Ground RoundGround Round® Grill & Bar is expanding their location footprint from nine to eleven U.S. States, and opened their newest restaurant in Rutland, Vermont in late May. The Rutland location was a conversion of a former Ponderosa Steakhouse, and the first of five newly signed franchises gearing up to open under the Ground Round brand over the next few years.

Rendering of Huron Ground Round“Ground Round is a known, casual dining brand, and our unique structure offers each franchisee ownership in the brand, and input always in the company’s direction,” states Jack Crawford, President & CEO of Ground Round Independent Owner’s Cooperative, LLC (Ground Round IOC). “Our franchisees have owned and led our brand’s direction…