Threadventures Embroidery will be at the Cabin Fever Classic again this year. Stop by and visit them and see what is new and exciting with "The Stud Shop" line and more. It should be another great show and Threadventures is proud to be a part of it.
This year the show is in Cloverdale, Indiana and a brand new facility.
A 57-year-old Nashville chain called Bar-B-Cutie has been running anonymous classified ads seeking franchisees in the Bluegrass.
Greg George, director of franchise development, says Lexington will get its first Bar-B-Cutie in 90 to 120 days. Several locations are being considered. Potential franchisees in Winchester and Mount Sterling are also discussing deals.
Most are professionals who are "tired of the grind and want to be on their own," he said. Bar-B-Cutie's symbol is a cartoon cowgirl with long, blond hair and red short-shorts. "Get your booty to Bar-B-Cutie!" is the company's slogan.
The menu includes "hickory pit BBQ, baby back ribs, chicken, turkey, ham, roast beef, 18 sides and a host of Southern lunch and dinner menu items."
The concept is fast casual, George said. The average visit lasts 20 to 25 minutes. "People like quick," he adds.
He didn't mention cheap. People like that, too.
This story is from Kentucky.com ~~~~~~~ And now...more Bar-B-Cutie News
Barbecue Restaurant Franchise, Bar-B-Cutie® Bursts Into Summer With Biggest Opening Yet Hays, KS (June, 2007) –
Record breaking sales make the Hays, KS store the biggest franchise store opening in Bar-B-Cutie® history! Anticipation has grown over time ever since an interstate billboard near Hays, KS first featured the Nashville, TN based Bar-B-Cutie® logo with the words "COMING SOON."
"Residents of Hays have been anxiously awaiting Bar-B-Cutie's home cooked veggies, hickory smoked bar-b-que, and mouthwatering baby back ribs for some time now," states Christie McFarland, Bar-B-Cutie® Franchise Systems Director of Marketing, "I have responded to many emails regarding the Hays' store opening."
Janna and Jeff Pinney, who own and operate the Hays Bar-B-Cutie®, have been blown away by the overwhelming response their community has had since they opened their doors last Wednesday. "Each day has gotten busier", says Brett McFarland, BFS COO, "This community is amazing!
The people seem to be ecstatic about Bar-B-Cutie®. The enthusiasm here is unbelievable!"Bar-B-Cutie recently released a new franchise opportunity video. The company's 3-4 minute information Bar-B-Cutie's® video has been placed on their new corporate website. The video has also been uploaded to You Tube and the popular My Space.com. "Over the 57 years Bar-B-Cutie® has been in existence, marketing strategies have immensely evolved. Since we began franchising, we have used technology marketing as one of our primary overall growth strategies," states Brett McFarland, company COO.
Bar-B-Cutie® is a 57 year old fast casual barbecue concept that is famous for hickory pit BBQ, baby back ribs, chicken, turkey, ham, roast beef, 18 sides and a host of Southern lunch and dinner menu items. Bar-B-Cutie® is growing their Brand thru national franchising. The fast casual model offers: dine-in, take out, drive thru and catering. The company has new stores opening in North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Delaware.
About Bar-B-Cutie®
Bar-B-Cutie® is a 57 year old fast casual barbecue restaurant and catering company that is expanding thru franchising in the United States. The company is currently one of America's fastest growing BBQ concepts.
I moved to Columbus, Indiana back in 1982 and lived there until 1985 and while it was a great city with lots of cool businesses and the city busses were Mercedes-Benz, that it was such a special place. After moving away and growing up and realizing all the cool stuff that I saw everyday around the city I felt priviliged to have lived in such a nice area.
Zaharako's is an old fashioned soda shop that has lots of marble throughout and stands the test of time and shines a light back to the grandness of architecture and design of days gone by. It is a family owned business and it has two Mexican onyx soda fountains that were purchased at the St. Louis World Expo in 1905 and a full concert German pipe organ that still plays songs of the 1890's on request.
Oh yeah and the people were wonderful as well. I plan to make a road trip either this summer or in the fall back to Columbus to see all the beauty and the changes since I was there last. Take the time to visit there someday and see what everyone is talking about.
HAVENS; A Farmland Showcase For Modern Architecture By R. W. APPLE JR. Published: December 5, 2003
IT must have been 1964 or 1968 when I first visited Columbus, Ind., which no less a personage than Lady Bird Johnson called ''the Athens of the prairie.''
I went there with Nelson A. Rockefeller while covering one of his two campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, whose political futility was offset, for me at least, by their aesthetic benefits. There was an early-morning tour of the superb Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, for example, conducted by its benefactor, Seymour H. Knox Jr., and a weekend stroll through the unheralded Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. One slow afternoon Rockefeller showed me some of the fine pictures and sculptures in his New York apartment.
Where there was art and architecture of quality to be seen, Rockefeller went to see it. Which is how we happened to find ourselves in Columbus, a city of 39,000 set in the cornfields an hour's drive south of Indianapolis. Columbus was and is the home of J. Irwin Miller, now 94, a remarkable businessman, political and social activist, amateur musician, philanthropist (and pal of Rockefeller). Besides building his family's company, Cummins Inc., into a multibillion-dollar manufacturer of diesel engines and generators, Mr. Miller made Columbus -- remote little Columbus -- into a Mecca of modern architecture, on a par with Chicago, BrasÃlia or any other metropolis.
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