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GRANITE CITY FOOD AND BREWERY
www.gcfb.net
Locations:
Updated information coming.
History/Company Profile:
Granite City Food & Brewery®, a casual dining restaurant with
an on-site brewery. Our initial restaurant commenced operations in
St. Cloud, Minnesota, in June 1999. Our second restaurant, located
in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, commenced operations in December 2000,
and our third restaurant opened to the public November 20, 2001 in
Fargo, North Dakota. At Granite City Food & Brewery®, we serve
signature beers, including Duke of Wellington (an English ale) and
Pride of Pilsen (a Czechoslovakian beer), and entrees such as London
broil. We offer a broad menu of items that are prepared fresh daily
and are served in generous portions at reasonable prices. Our handcrafted
beers are moderately priced and offer unique styles and flavors not
typically produced by major breweries. Our founders, Mr. Wagenheim
and Mr. Burdick, have over 52 years of combined hospitality industry
experience. Mr. Wagenheim's experience includes that of corporate
executive, owner/operator, manager and consultant for hotels, resorts,
and individual and multi-unit restaurant operations. Mr. Burdick,
a brewing chemist, has over 30 years experience in the restaurant,
hospitality and brewing industry in both corporate and private positions.
Shortly before we opened our third store, we launched our new patent-pending
brewing process, Fermentus Interruptus™, which will make micro
brewing for multiple locations more efficient. This process, conceived
and designed by Mr. Burdick, allows us to ship sweet liquid called
wort, from our Sioux Falls location to our Fargo location. When this
liquid is reaches Fargo, we begin the fermentation process and complete
the brewing. We plan to use Fermentus Interruptus™ at our future
Granite City Food & Brewery® locations as well. Granite City
Food & Brewery¨ is the hottest new restaurant concept –
Opening all over the Midwest, dominating every market in which we
operate! Everyone in this business talks about how great they are
– Granite City has the volume to prove it! With over 80 scratch
menu items, a full-service bar and handcrafted micro brewed beer;
Granite City takes pride in pioneering the next great national restaurant
chain. With average seating of 250 and incredible outdoor patio seating,
Granite City Food & Brewery’s have average unit sales of
over 4.2 million!
Benefits:
Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401K
Detailed information to come
Management Profile:
Our management continuously seeks to attract and retain only the most
talented and best individuals the restaurant industry has to offer.
We seek out individuals dedicated to upholding our restaurants' high
standards of excellence and contributing to the success of our operations.
We believe our training program is the top in our markets allowing
Granite City Food & Brewery® employees the opportunity to
work with the best and for the best. Many employees take advantage
of the opportunity to advance, which Granite City Food & Brewery®
provides. If the pace and accelerated growth opportunities don’t
grab you, then the individual pride each and every one of us at Granite
City take in our daily operations is sure to attract you. Our success
to growth has been our incredible management staff and our uncompromising
training of our service staff. It is for this reason, that we seek
the most professional, dedicated and skilled management staff available.
Our commitment to actually practicing what we preach instead of making
our management empty promises has afforded us the reputation to attract
the best management staff in our industry today.
Growth:
Their plan is 4 stores in the next year.
