{"id":3303,"date":"2013-10-24T11:14:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T11:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2013-10-24T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T11:14:49","slug":"company-snapshot-brueggers-enterprises-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/10\/company-snapshot-brueggers-enterprises-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: Bruegger&#039;s Enterprises Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2013\/10\/chain-store-guide-through-the-ages-1980s\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"CSG History 1970s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/blogpic_1980s.jpg\" alt=\"Chain Store Guide Through The Ages\" width=\"175\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><strong>Address:<br \/>\n<\/strong>159 Bank St<br \/>\nBURLINGTON, VT 05401<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telephone:<br \/>\n<\/strong>802-660-4020<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internet Homepage:<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brueggers.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.brueggers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Current Locations:<br \/>\n<\/strong>300+<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trading Areas:<br \/>\n<\/strong>25 states, including DC and Canada<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012 Systemwide Sales:<br \/>\n<\/strong>$210,900,000 (e)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executives:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Co-CEO: Claude Bergeron<br \/>\nCo-CEO: Jim Vinz<br \/>\nCFO: Robert Parette<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Original_Brueggers.jpg#file\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Bruegger's\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/cs_20242013_rest.jpg\" alt=\"Bruegger's\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Preceding its much larger competitor, Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, by a decade, Bruegger\u2019s Enterprises was founded in 1983 by Nord Brue and Mike Dressell and was thus the first to make New York-style bagels available across the country. The company\u2019s history notes that at the time, less than one-third of Americans had ever tasted a bagel.<\/p>\n<p>Known for genuine New York-style bagels baked fresh throughout the day, Bruegger&#8217;s menu includes a variety of items: fresh-baked breads, proprietary Vermont cream cheese varieties, custom-roasted coffee, breakfast and lunch sandwiches, garden-fresh salads, hearty soups, panini, and desserts, along\u00a0with seasonal and geographical specialties.<\/p>\n<p>Bruegger\u2019s criteria for trade area demographics and business characteristics include total population greater than 20,000 within 2 miles, median household income greater than $50,000, a highly educated population with a high percentage of white collar workers, and a high daytime population. Restaurants are typically between 1,800 and 2,200 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>Bruegger\u2019s Enterprises was acquired by Le Duff America, Inc., the North American subsidiary of France-based Groupe Le Duff SA in March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2013\/10\/chain-store-guide-through-the-ages-1980s\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"80yrs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/80yrs_3a.png\" alt=\"CSG 80 Years\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a><em>This year, Chain Store Guide celebrates its 80th anniversary. In honor of this occasion, we are hosting a monthly series of editorials called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2013\/10\/chain-store-guide-through-the-ages-1980s\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chain Store Guide Through The Ages<\/a>\u201d, starting with the 1930s. We will take a look at what was happening in that time and how it affected the industries we now serve. Our <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/tag\/snapshot\" target=\"_blank\">Company Snapshots<\/a> will examine companies from that period and see where they are today.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 9px;\">*Image courtesy of: <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Original_Brueggers.jpg#file\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: 159 Bank St BURLINGTON, VT 05401 Telephone: 802-660-4020 Internet Homepage: http:\/\/www.brueggers.com Total Current Locations: 300+ Trading Areas: 25 states, including DC and Canada 2012 Systemwide Sales: $210,900,000 (e) Senior Executives: Co-CEO: Claude Bergeron Co-CEO: Jim Vinz CFO: Robert Parette \u00a0 Preceding its much larger competitor, Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, by a decade, Bruegger\u2019s Enterprises&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/10\/company-snapshot-brueggers-enterprises-inc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Company Snapshot: Bruegger&#039;s Enterprises Inc.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurant-foodservice","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}