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Growth. It&#39;s the key for any successful franchise system, however simply growing in order to grow can lead to long-term problems. In the kickoff issue for 2017, Franchise Times looked at the smartest growing franchise brands, including Wisconsin-based rapidly growing <a href="http://www.toppersfranchise.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchise-times-toppers-pizza-ranked-in-franchise-times-fast-serious-list-10596#intro" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Toppers Pizza</a>.

The brand has seen impressive growth in recent years, with more than 70 locations open across the U.S. and a pipeline including multi-unit operators that will help the brand&#39;s expansion into new states. At its core, the brand has a brash culture that&#39;s served as a motivation for growth.

&ldquo;Our brand voice is the cocky young person, kind of dismiss the big guys and talk smack,&rdquo; Scott Gittrich, founder and president of <a href="http://topperspizza.1851franchise.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchise-times-toppers-pizza-ranked-in-franchise-times-fast-serious-list-10596" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Toppers</a>, told Franchise Times. However, the brand has also invested heavily in online ordering (with 42 percent of orders coming through online) but is looking even further down the road.

&ldquo;We look out 10 to 15 years and say you know, there&rsquo;s going to be self-driving cars, there&rsquo;s going to be automation in kitchens where robots are making pizzas, customers are going to be ordering in kiosks in restaurants. Those kinds of things are not a question of if, they&rsquo;re a question of when and who&rsquo;s going to adopt those things,&rdquo; Gittrich told Franchise Times.

<a href="http://www.franchisetimes.com/January-2017/Jersey-Mikes-tops-this-years-Fast-Serious-list/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchise-times-toppers-pizza-ranked-in-franchise-times-fast-serious-list-10596" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here to read the original article.</a>

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