June 2013
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sentatives, and ongoing marketing and prod-
uct development services. The company has
secured the vendor relationships as well as the
intelligence to help franchisees understand
which products are most demanded by con-
sumers frommarket to respective market. As
Walker affirms, FSC has achieved its growth
and industry respect by not only focusing on
the atmosphere and products imparted by its
brand concepts, but also through its creation
of system designed to help franchisees read-
ily and rapidly achieve their business goals.
“Our mission is to be a best-in-class fran-
chisor with 100 percent franchisee success-
that’s what we want to be known for,” says
Walker.
And more are certainly getting to know
these alreadypopular brands. Beef ‘O’ Brady’s
will soon see its first openings in Saudi Ara-
bia, Kuwait and Jordan, to complement the
ongoing openings in America. “Great food,
a family environment with a sport theme;
we’ve seen these core ingredients of Beef ‘O’
Brady’s translate globally,” notes Walker.
As forTheBrassTap,Walkerwas the inno-
vator of an idea to develop locations among
highly-trafficked airport terminals which
has met with favorable response. While
those negotiations continue, consumers may
anticipate additional openings to take flight
with more than a dozen other new locations
currently on the drawing board. As Walker
says, “It’s a busy time and we’ve got two dis-
tinctive brands that have people twice as ex-
cited about our future.”
