Chocolate Bar’s First Franchise Slated To Open In Cleveland
After three years of fielding interest from wannabe franchisees, Chippewa Street’s dessert- themed bar and restaurant The Chocolate Bar is headed for Cleveland.
“The Cleveland people just kind of fell out of the sky,” said William Panzica, Chocolate Bar owner and director of franchise development.
Guests staying in the Hampton Inn, which houses the restaurant, had been expressing interest in franchising since it opened in 2006, Panzica said. So he and his wife, Carolyn, registered the Chocolate Bar as a franchise. They did that Aug. 21 and landed the Cleveland franchise the same day.
Franchisees pay a $35,000 franchise fee plus an additional 4 percent in sales and 1 percent for advertising. The Cleveland franchise was bought by three partners consisting of the married owners of a medical transcription company and the owner of office equipment company Cleveland Business Supply. Continue reading.
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I read your story entitled “Chocolate Bar’s first franchise slated to open in Cleveland” with a great interest as the U.S trademark site USPTO.GOV shows registration 78868478 and 78866941 as belonging to a multi-award winning New York operation established in 2002 under the name “The Chocolate Bar”.
This New York operator is not affiliated with the Buffalo/ Cleveland operations but it does have more than a dozen locations in the Middle East in areas like Dubai, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia.
If Buffalo & Cleveland does not own active trademarks and proper registrations for “The Chocolate Bar” that is incredibly problematic for this or any new franchise business under the rules of law.
Just thought you should know…