One year after cracking Entrepreneur Magazine’s prestigious Top 500 fastest growing franchise list, the Ocean City-based Greene Turtle
has made another quantum leap in the publication’s January issue and is now recognized as the country’s fastest growing sports bar franchise.
From modest beginnings at the end of a north-end Ocean City shopping center in 1976, the Greene Turtle has expanded its operations over the years and now includes 31 sports bars up and running in the mid-Atlantic region with a dozen or so more in the planning stages. Expansion came slow for the original Greene Turtle owners with a second location in Fells Point in Baltimore, followed by new operations in Laurel, West Ocean City and Edgewater.
A few years back, the core group of original owners decided to take its expansion efforts to the next level when it partnered with a reputable franchise consultant to expand its brand recognition and, in turn, the number of franchised new locations.