Month: July 2018

It is almost August and it is hot, but that means tomatoes. The supply is good and the quality is great this time of year. The only thing that is debatable is rather to use Duke’s or Hellman’s mayonnaise on your tomato sandwich.

We have never been able to successfully grow them in our backyard without them succumbing to the squirrels in the neighborhood.  So, you can find us shopping for tomatoes and other local produce at the North Hills Farmers Market on Saturday mornings.

It has been a busy summer at Amy Bush Commercial — unlike tomatoes, our business grows all year round.  Let us know if we can help you with any of your Commercial Real Estate needs and, if you have any extra homegrown tomatoes, we can help you with that, too!

Surely, only a matter of time before the Texas based “Whataburger” expands to the Triangle

One of the amenities of an office park is its convenience to a variety of places to go to lunch.   At Amy Bush Commercial, we are quite fond of brown bagging a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and there are times we conduct business over a meal at a white tablecloth  restaurant, but there is no denying that limited-service restaurants are the bread and butter of workplace lunch choices.    We are fortunate here in the Triangle to have a plethora of options conveniently located near our commercial properties.

In the 2017 Foods News Media rankings, Chick-Fil-A tops the limited-service restaurant industry in sales per location.   Here is the list of the top seven – with Whataburger the only missing restaurant in our area.

QSR 50 RANK	COMPANY		CATEGORY	2016 U.S. SYSTEMWIDE SALES (MILLIONS)	2016 U.S. AVERAGE SALES PER UNIT (THOUSANDS)	NUMBER OF FRANCHISED UNITS IN 2016	NUMBER OF COMPANY UNITS IN 2016	TOTAL UNITS IN 2016	TOTAL CHANGE IN UNITS FROM 2015
8	Chick-fil-A		Chicken	7,973.50	4,407.10	1,730	372	2,102	119
23	Whataburger		Burger	2,181.35	2,706.00	122	684	806	15
11	Panera Bread		Sandwich	5,200.00	2,700.00	1,134	908	2,042	70
43	Jason’s Deli		Sandwich	646.59	2,609.00	109	155	264	4
1	McDonald’s*		Burger	36,389.00	2,550.00	13,046	1,109	14,155	-104
25	Zaxby’s*		Chicken	1,891.98	2,318.60	677	139	816	91
27	Culver’s		Burger	1,301.38	2,252.20	597	8	605	46

 

What’s your favorite?   We had a conversation at our office and Panera Bread was the go-to place.  We spoke with another friend who we always see there and he suggested that there are two kinds of people in the world, these who get Panera Bread and those who don’t.

What’s missing for this list?  Our home state star Bojangles probably has the most passionate followers.  How many of us could resist stopping for some Bojangles’ buttermilk biscuits at 6am on our way to the beach!

Hope you are having a wonderful summer at the beach, or the mountains, or back in the Triangle.  We will look for you at lunch.