Londie Nicole was a new mom almost four months ago when she lay in bed wondering how she could better support herself and her family when she started surfing the internet looking for a new opportunity. She wasn’t looking for the Peach Cobbler Factory and had not in fact ever heard of it, but she sent them an email inquiring about franchising opportunities.
She got a call from Greg George, a franchise specialist and a partner in the Peach Cobbler Factory chain of restaurants, and was surprised by his first question, and it pretty much sealed the deal.
“He asked me if I had children,” she said. She thought it was a deal breaker, but it was just the opposite as George told her this was the perfect opportunity. George said in an interview this week that he believes he has found a once-in-a-lifetime home run with the chain. And, as proof, he points to the store that Nicole is set to open after the first of the year at 301 E. Martin Luther King Boulevard.
“It already has more than 22,000 followers on Facebook,” he said. “This will be a 1,000-store chain, I believe. And, I’ll tell you why: Because you can’t buy our products anywhere else. You can’t find 12 flavors of cobbler and get a scoop of ice cream on it like ours. You can’t do it. Or, five flavors of banana pudding – chocolate chip, red velvet cake, original, Nutella and strawberry – or a cobbler stuffed cinnamon roll and that’s all we offer.”
Photo courtesy of Peach Cobbler Factory / Londie Nicole, pictured with her former husband Marcus Price, is the owner of a Peach Cobbler Factory store set to open on Martin Luther King Boulevard in early winter.“It’s a very simple menu, but we sell 6,000 pounds of cobbler at each location 8 ounces at a time.”