For Atlanta restaurateur Mike Klank, letting franchisees run restaurants under his Taqueria del Sol banner always seemed like a no-go.
“It wasn’t anything I thought we’d ever do,” said Klank, who founded Taqueria del Sol a decade ago and currently runs three restaurants in metro Atlanta and one in Athens. “We’re really a local independent operator that has several units. That’s just what we are.”
But about a year of lobbying by restaurant veteran Bill Burnett convinced Klank to change his business model and franchise the brand and its southwestern cuisine.
“He’s very persistent,” Klank said of Burnett. “So, I talked to him, and everybody in the industry speaks well of him.”
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