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Dean Kessell has only been in business as a <a href="http://toastcafeonline.com/davidson/franchise/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=famous-toastery-franchisees-cook-up-major-success-1781" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Famous Toastery</a> franchisee for seven months, but his success to date is enough to make even the most seasoned restaurateur envious. &#8220;It&#8217;s exceeded our expectations,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And the beauty is we&#8217;ve done very little advertising - it&#8217;s all been word of mouth. During the week you&#8217;ve got a lot of the office crowd coming by for breakfast and lunch, and on the weekends you get families. We&#8217;re blowing away our projections.&#8221; Along with his wife and business partner Beth, it&#8217;s clear Dean is thoroughly enjoying his time as a Famous Toastery franchisee, which makes sense, as he started as a satisfied customer of the brand. &#8220;My background is marketing, for the most part,&#8221; Dean said. &#8220;My office was two blocks from the first Famous Toastery location in Huntersville [,N.C.]. I loved the food. I started going there with colleagues, then my customers, and then my wife and I would go on the weekends. We got to know the owners.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t long before Dean and his wife discovered Famous Toastery was franchising. The couple was looking for a new business opportunity and decided they&#8217;d be a perfect fit. &#8220;From a people standpoint, we like them, and we really admired the product and the service model,&#8221; Dean continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s very different from anything else out there in this market. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s a compelling offering.&#8221; Dean and his wife have every intention of opening up more Famous Toastery locations, but not just because it&#8217;s a profitable business. According to Dean, it comes back to the people behind the brand, as well as what the Famous Toastery name stands for. &#8220;They&#8217;re looking for partners, not just owners,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s huge. The other side is, the product is so great. The food is the best. The way we do the service model, every server is your server. Customers look and say, &#8216;Why doesn&#8217;t every place do this?&#8217; We&#8217;re able to put on a show that people come to see on a daily basis. We already have an amazing following in the market.&#8221; As far as the success he and his wife are seeing, Dean remains bowled over. &#8220;When you start a business, this is sort of what you dream about,&#8221; he said. It&#8217;s a dream more and more franchisees will be able to make a reality as the brand expands.

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