Available Markets

Are you thinking about opening a Jack in the Box franchise, but you're not sure where? One of the main reasons people decide to franchise with Jack is our white space availability and the opportunity to develop your locations in prime markets across the United States. Today, I have two of our awesome directors of franchise development, Dustin Thompson and Mike Wooten, and they're gonna be sharing the best untapped markets we have at Jack in the Box. So stay tuned. Alright. First up, let's start with Dustin Thompson. Dustin handles the Southeastern and Northeastern, regions of the United States for Jack in the Box, and he's our director of franchise development and marketing. And, he'll be sharing three or four or five, who knows, market points that are very, very untapped and exciting for you in this market. So let's kick it to Dustin. Yeah. Thanks, John. So, yeah, you know, I I predominantly represent, you know, areas east of Mississippi with a few exceptions. But the great part about, you know, my area and my territory is that Jack in the Box is establishing a strong base with the number of development agreements that we've signed over the last, you know, four years. And we have a lot of exciting opportunities, obviously, with that new growth. I think number one on my list is gonna be Jacksonville, Florida. So we already have franchisees down in Tallahassee committed for the Tallahassee market. We've got multiple franchisees committed for the Orlando market. So I think it's just a natural fit to really the next large market kind of between those two is gonna be, you know, Gainesville, but more importantly, Jacksonville, Florida. And we have a lot of opportunities within that market. One thing you'll find with Florida is that Florida is our most requested market, for Jack in the Box in the system. You have a lot of people that have moved from markets that have Jack in the Box, with over 2,200 locations or across the country, but they've moved to Florida to really bring and they wanna see the the restaurants and bring and taste the restaurants that they have back at home. So I think that'd be number one. I think number two on my list is gonna be Atlanta. I live in Atlanta, so maybe I'm a little biased, but, you know, Atlanta is a great market. It is kind of the franchise hub of the United States to some degree. A lot of big brands are based here. Many big brands, whether it be the hotel industry, QSR, Fast Casual, a lot of brands are based, within the Atlanta market. So I think it makes natural sense for us to be here amongst a lot of our competition. We also recently signed a fifteen store development agreement, across multiple markets in Savannah, Augusta, and Macon. So we already have accompanying development within the state. So, Atlanta with the world's busiest airport just makes sense, especially with the amount of growth Atlanta's seen. And to me, the next market that I would focus on, honestly would probably be something like a Memphis or a Chattanooga. Jack of the Box has stores in Nashville currently, but we don't really have any stores throughout the state. So when you start looking at those secondary markets, you've got Memphis, you've got Knoxville, you've got Chattanooga, all of those are great fast food markets. They all, I feel like would be a great fit, for Jack in the Box and our brand, especially our menu twenty four seven. I really think it'd be a great fit. Other markets, you know, we've recently gone into Louisville, which was an interesting space, and we've done extremely well. We've mentioned on our earnings call how well those stores are doing. So I I think the, you know, eastern side of the United States is definitely poised to see more jack in the box, and the demand is definitely there. And I'm excited to see, you know, people continue to develop those markets over time. That's perfect. Thanks, Dustin. So next up, let's take a look at the Midwest and the West Coast with, Mike Wootton. So Mike Wootton is also a director of franchise development here at Jack. He's who you'll be dealing with if you're interested in these markets. So go ahead, Mike. Alright. Great. Thanks, John. It's, nice to meet everybody if we haven't spoken before. Just to kinda go off a little bit of what Dustin said, we've had some some amazing growth in the Kentucky market, which is starting to bleed north into some of my markets. And there's some great opportunities kind of in the Midwest and then even moving a little bit further west toward Jack in the Box's kind of home base out in California. The first market I'm gonna bring up and mention would be, Detroit, Michigan. We're starting to break into Michigan. We've had some franchise development going on in the Detroit market as well as the Grand Rapids DMA. But anywhere in general in Michigan, I think, is an opportunity right now where we're seeing a lot of interest. We're getting a lot of coverage in the media. We're getting a lot of inquiries, and there's really kind of a groundswell starting with people that are interested in bringing Jack to the state of Michigan. So in general Detroit, but, any of the DMAs in Michigan, I think, would be an absolutely great opportunity to jump in and and get involved as the wave starts to build in Michigan. The second market I'd like to kind of highlight is Minneapolis, Minnesota. We have we have started working in Chicago. Jumping off from Chicago to Minneapolis, I think, makes a lot of sense. It's a it's a market where we have zero restaurants and would allow someone to have the opportunity to come in, pick the markets that make the most sense for them. What I like a lot about Minnesota is folks from Minnesota typically travel quite a bit to the West Coast or to the Southwest down in Arizona or Nevada, where we've got tons of Jack in the Box restaurants operating that have been there for, you know, decades. So they are very, very familiar, in Minnesota with the brand, but, there aren't any open, restaurants in the area. So there's a ton of opportunity to bring kind of a legendary brand to a state like Minnesota in a great stable market like Minneapolis and built some great restaurants. The third the third market I'm gonna highlight, is one that's about half built out, and that's Denver, Colorado. Explosive growth going on in Denver. There's opportunity in real estate to acquire some potential locations on some of the edge markets in Denver, where you're seeing explosive housing growth. So, if you're looking to get into a hyper growth area where we have opportunity, one that I would bring up would be Denver, Colorado. So those are three. I'd love to talk to you some more about some of the other markets in the in the Midwest, in the North. There's opportunities in almost every state that we, operate in, and we look forward to, chatting with you more about areas that you might be interested That's perfect. Thanks, Mike. So, yeah, if you're interested in any of those markets or any of our available markets, which are listed on our franchising website, just fill out any form on that site, and a member of our team, probably one of these two guys, will be in touch. So thanks and, have a great day.