Sofi's Crepes opens first franchise location in Annapolis - Baltimore Business Journal:

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The creperie franchise opened its thirdd store and first franchisde on 1Craig St. on Annapolis’ Sofi’s Crepes opened a second locatiom inSeptember 2007, on the ground floor at the Women’as Industrial Exchange at 333 N. Charles St. downtown. Stephaniee Hans, owner of the Annapolis spentabout $100,000 to open the 600-square-foot Annapolixs location, including franchising fees and Hans met Ann Costlow of Sofi’s Crepess at the second location and worked with Costlow as a manager of that storse with the intent of opening a After working with consultants at Chicago-basede , Costlow became a lega franchisor in Maryland in February, and Hans was able to pursud a franchise.
The process of looking at spaceaand build-out work took about two years, Costloew said, and cost about $150,000 to starg a franchise between marketing and creating an operationsx manual. Costlow said she also has receiver interest to open more locations locally and to expanf inNew England, but has not yet decidedf the site of the next