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Two local restaurant chains make FastCasual.com’s top 100 ‘Movers & Shakers’ list
Two Dayton-area restaurant chains — Hot Head Burritos and OinkADoodleMoo — have been named to FastCasual.com’s list of “Top 100 Movers & Shakers.”
Cincinnati-based Penn Station East Coast Subs and Columbus-based Charley’s Grilled Subs also made the top 100 list, which recognizes restaurant chains in the “fast casual” segment of the restaurant industry that lies between fast-food “Quick-Service” restaurants and “Casual” restaurants.
Kettering-based Hot Head was ranked 54 on the list, and OinkADoodleMoo placed 60th. The FastCasual.com web site says the rankings reflect “the best fast casual concepts,” and it identifies four panelists who ranked each brand on a scale of 1 to 100. The specific criteria for the rankings, however, are not disclosed. Writing in the “Top 100” report, Valerie Killifer, editorial vice president in the food-service division, said, ” … It was the goal of this year’s panel to gather and rank the chains that best reflected the fast casual segment’s phenomenal growth.” There are more than 600 restaurant chains in the category, FastCasual.com editors say.
Hot Head opened its 12th Dayton-area restaurant, and 15th overall, less than two months ago in Beavercreek, according to co-founder and CEO Ray Wiley, who co-owns the Hot Head chain with his wife, Cynthia. About six more Hot Head restaurants will open this spring and summer: one in the Vandalia area, and five in the Cincinnati-northern Kentucky market, Wiley said after the Beavercreek store opening. The Hot Head co-owner said he has reached agreements with area developers to explore sites elsewhere in Ohio — including the Cleveland, Toledo and Youngstown areas — and in Kentucky and Pennsylvania, and has hopes to have as many as 50 restaurants open or under development by the end of the year. Hot Head opened its first restaurant in Kettering in 2007.
OinkADoodleMoo operates its flagship restaurant in Englewood and a lunch operation in Area B of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and it opened its third location, and first franchise operation, in Kettering last October. OinkADoodleMoo founder Mark Peebles said in a news release that he expects to open two to four more corporate-owned stores in the Dayton-area market in 2011 and to pursue franchise expansion in Ohio and elsewhere, including Denver and Washington D.C.
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