Spoon Me Goes International
Hello Fellow Spooners,I recently had the exciting experience of opening up Spoon Me’s first ‘International’ franchise! Okay, so it may not be exotic, but Calgary, Canada is a great place for Spoon Me to be. Calgary is a beautiful city of just over a million people located almost directly north of Salt Lake City. It can get pretty nasty here in the winter, but it also can be very mild. Our city has a very active, health concious population and is really going to welcome a place like Spoon Me with open arms.
Canada is very unlike the US in regards to the frozen yogurt industry. We literally have no competition. Our job now is to get the word out on the streets in Calgary and let poeple know about us and what we are. We have an unreal location, with TONS of walking traffic and shopping in the area. We are nestled between a very popular coffee shop and a neighborhood pub in an area of town called Kensington. It has been rated Calgary’s top shopping district for 8 years in a row.
Ryan Combe arrived in the midst of our first blizzard of the season and despite cold hands and sleep deprivation we were able to fully assemble our ‘store in a box’ in about 2 days! We passed our health inspection the next day and were opened that night for our soft opening by our goal date of October 15.
Now that the doors of our first store are open I can finally kick up my feet and relax, right?! Not so! Although my sister, Becca, and her friend Natalie are working out the kinks and getting the day to day operations of the store nailed down, there is still plenty to do on my end! Just 2 days after the store opened its doors, I was already looking for our next location in Calgary, and am currently working out the details for our next location! Look for Spoon Me Calgary 2 to be open some time early spring.
I have had a great time with Spoon Me so far and am looking forward to many more to come!
Jeff HansenCalgary Spoon Me Owner
