The first stand-alone retail vending kiosks for Great American Cookies and Pretzelmaker have opened in Destin, Fla. Both brands are managed by NexCen Franchise Management Inc., a subsidiary of NexCen Brands Inc.
Both kiosks offer a full range of snack foods, beverages and desserts. Great American Cookies features iced cookies, Cookie Cakes, brownies and Coca-Cola and Icee products. The Pretzelmaker kiosk offers Nathan's Famous hotdogs, polish sausage dogs with all of the trimmings, pretzels and pretzel bites.
The design of these unique kiosks is a joint venture by Aventura, Fla.-based Turnberry Associates, Atlanta-based Morton Gruber, AIA, Architect, and Tampa, Fla.-based Design Build Services. The kiosks are unique in that they are the first of their kind for Great American Cookies and Pretzelmaker.
The custom units were designed to both complement Destin Commons' architectural feel as well as meet the essential needs required for both facilities. The project presented a tremendous challenge as power, water and sewer services had to be installed to the kiosks without disrupting business at the shopping center.
Each kiosk provides approximately 180 square feet of workable space complete with onsite full baking equipment, ice makers and humidity control showcases. The kiosks contain 140 mph Hurricane Impact glass with low-E insulated glass and are engineered to Florida Building Codes.
The two new locations are owned and operated by Pizitz Management Group, a privately held company owned by the Pizitz family of Birmingham, Ala. Company holdings include the Gus Mayer specialty stores located in Birmingham and Nashville, Tenn., as well as 32 Great American Cookies franchises, four Pretzelmaker franchises and two Mrs. Fields Cookies franchises.
