hoot’s Chicken Wings Franchise CEO Featured in FastCasual Magazine

Sal Melilli opens up about why the fast-growing wings franchise is poised for a breakthrough

hoots chicken wings franchise may be the new kid in the dynamic wings category – but the brand is garnering a lot of recognition as an innovative disruptor.

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FastCasual recently published an interview with hoots CEO, Sal Melilli, on the brand’s decision to launch franchise development efforts. With plans to open 17 new locations in 2021, 35 in 2022, and 50 more in 2023, hoots has aggressive growth plans – but it also has the leadership team to turn these goals into a reality.

In the article, Melilli says that now is an exciting time to open new locations, and recently celebrated the opening of three new hoots restaurants.

“Right now, there is a growing demand for chicken wings, and it is as good an opportunity as any to expand and open franchises,” Melilli told FastCasual. “Like the entire sector, when the world shut down, we felt that pressure on sales. However, hoots came back very quickly and robustly because of the very model of the concept.”

By focusing on off-premise eating and mobile delivery, Melilli told the magazine that hoots was able to recover far quicker than any other restaurant concept during the crisis.

“Based on the nature of the model and the demand for our product mix through delivery, we came back faster than most restaurant concepts,” Melilli said in the article.

Although hoots is a fairly new brand, their business model and leadership team are anything but. Today, they operate seven locations with the help of HOA Brands, which has over 35 years of experience in helping franchise owners thrive in the restaurant business.

We’ve spent the last several years proving our business model in several markets. By focusing on keeping things simple, we have developed our practices to be easily streamlined, efficient, and quick to scale. Everything from our menu, to the layout of our stores, targets low costs, maximizing productivity and keeping each process simple and replicable.

“With only a few national competitors and an unmet demand, hoots chicken wings franchise is ready to become a dominant player in the wing industry,” Melilli said. “We’ve built a strong model that is well suited for the trends of tomorrow and years to come, and that has resulted in impressive unit-level economics.”

To read the full article, click here.

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