ownership entity that is the owner of the Charlotte franchising license from Newk’s Franchise Company. He is young entrepreneur that has a strong real estate, venture capital, and busi- ness management background. He also represents our company as a board member for the Charlotte Res- taurant Association.
As we have become involved in the Charlotte community through work- ing in our restaurants, everything that initially attracted us to this great city still stands strong. Our leadership for the Queen City, Mayor Anthony Foxx, helps promote the reasons why we moved here. His candidate statement is “My priority is to give every resident the same opportunity I have had to achieve his or her dreams in a thriving city with strong job growth, good quality of life and 21st century infrastructure.” I could not be prouder to be a resident and business owner in the Queen city!
What is a good early story about your business? During the first year of our Uptown NEWK’S location we have had the opportunity to serve the hourly part- ners that work with us to grow our brand each day. We opened Uptown NEWK’S in November of 2010, and realized we had 5 homeless partners
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that were working with us. With Christmas right around the corner, we communicated to our team in an all partner meeting that we would assist them where needed. We raised mon- ey to help provide Christmas presents for their children and helped one of our partners and her two children move to permanent housing. Our Core Value of Service was engrained to all members of our Team. We found out that one of our managers gave a television to one of the hourly partners, one manager gave some furniture to another hourly partner, and another manager gave their com- puter away to an hourly partner.
The managers didn’t tell me this, I found out from other people. I was proud of each them that they sacri- ficed to help others without trying to receive public praise or acknowledg- ment. I am so proud to say that seeing a FOR PROFIT business pull together to help one another get on their feet is honestly a story we do not hear enough. This passion for not only serv- ing our guests, but for serving each other is one of the reasons why our retention rates are high and also why we are able to thrive in the community.
What are some interesting statis- tics about your business?
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