2008.01.23
Little Caesars on the way
Several of you have inquired lately about a business that is rising on Brandon Avenue in Roanoke, near Towers Shopping Center.
This building soon will house a new Little Caesars restaurant. It's planned to open by late February or early March, according to franchise owner, Pat Flanigan. He owns 20 Little Caesars locations in Southwest Virginia.
The pizza chain’s location on Brandon Avenue will have a drive-through, a feature that Flanigan has been adding to more of his Little Caesars sites. A drive-through can double sales at a restaurant, he said. Five of Flanigan’s Little Caesars locations have drive-throughs.
Flanigan said he even is considering ways to move his restaurants out of strip centers and into free-standing buildings so that he can add drive-throughs to them.
“It’s the way society is today...convenience, convenience,” he said.
A Pizza Hut sits up the road from Little Caesars' Brandon Avenue site, but Flanigan said he's not worried about the competition. Both pizza restaurants have different concepts. Pizza Hut has sit-down and delivery business, while Little Caesars is strictly carry-out, he explained.
Look for another Little Caesars restaurant to open in Bedford on U.S. 460. On March 18, Flanigan said he’ll land this restaurant at a busy intersection, near Wal-Mart, Autozone and Applebee’s. It, of course, will have a drive-through.
