Business First of Columbus: USA Restaurant Developers LLC plans to open in October the first of 30 Dunkin' Donuts stores in the Columbus, Ohio, area.
Dunkin' Donuts has a target to open more than 80 shops in Central Ohio, while Baskin-Robbins Franchising LLC, its ice cream subsidiary, will have as many as 44 stores in the region.
And in Memphis, Tenn., according to The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.), Sanjanhand Corp., a Dunkin' Donut franchisee, has signed its first lease in the Memphis, Tenn., market.
Last year, company officials announced plans to open 70 stores in the Memphis area, including Shelby County and parts of northern Mississippi. Earlier this year, Sanjanhand agreed to open 14 Dunkin' locations in Memphis within three years, including a flagship store downtown.
The expansions are part of a strategy to open 15,000 new stores nationwide by 2020.
