Secrets Of A Crust Gourmet Pizza Franchisee

Franchising:

Top secret: Basketballer Sam Mackinnon is juggling sport with pizzas.

The first Crust Gourmet Pizza Bar in Brisbane was opened in January by one of Australia’s leading basketball players, Sam Mackinnon, who was at the time captain of the Brisbane Bullets. He began his career at 17, now 14 years on he has a host of awards and captained the Bullets to win the NBL 2007 national championship.

In addition to Crust Hamilton, Mackinnon has been appointed the Crust franchise area manager for Queensland – all quite challenging as he is poised to start with the Melbourne Tigers following the sale of his Brisbane team at the end of last season.

What made you turn to franchising? I’ve been playing basketball all my life and I’ve seen a few professional players have nothing to do when they retire. I want to have a career; I didn’t go to university so this is an investment for the future. That’s my motivation. Both the franchise and the area management are partnerships and with our varied backgrounds we manage to cover all aspects of business. We really liked what Crust has done in Melbourne and Sydney and it was part of the initial talks that we would take on the area management role; we always wanted to grow the brand in Queensland, we think it will be brilliant.

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