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For Immediate Release
November 18, 2008

Sandella’s Flatbread Café to Open 4 Units in Michigan

Rapidly Expanding Fast Casual Flatbread Café will Open in Southeast Michigan

West Redding, CT, November 18, 2008— Sandella’s Flatbread Café has signed a contract with J & K Industries to introduce the hot concept to the Southeast Michigan area. Sandella’s Flatbread Café is the largest flatbread concept in the world with more than 125 locations offering healthy and delicious menu items based on its famous flatbread. Sandella’s recently opened in Hollywood and Orange County, California, and will soon have a location in the Newark airport. There are 400 more restaurants in development across the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates.

J & K Industries is targeting Southeast Michigan areas such as Birmingham, Ann Arbor and Troy for their upcoming stores and hope to open their first location by the end of the summer in 2009.

Joseph Brown, a representative from J & K Industries, says the company sees this move as “An exciting opportunity to be a pioneer in this market with such an amazing new restaurant concept. We are really blown away with Sandella’s – not just the delicious food, but the fact that it's healthy. People in Southeast Michigan are going to love it.”

Sandella’s Flatbread Café incorporates the hottest trends in the fast casual segment, offering consumers fresh, hot and healthy menu items such as grilled paninis, sandwiches, grilled flatbreads, chopped salads and quesadillas—all made with their own brick-oven flatbread that is low calorie and fat free. Already ahead of its time, Sandella’s is trans-fat free and listed in the Weight Watchers Points Guide.

Restaurants average 1,000-1,500 square feet and seat 30 to 40 guests.

Prime franchise territory is still available worldwide. If you are interested in franchising with Sandella’s please visit www.sandellas.com or contact Alexandra Doyle at 703-837- 5168 or alexandrad@fransmart.com.

About Sandella’s Flatbread Café:

Listed in Fast Casual Magazine's 2007 Top 100 Movers & Shakers list and Restaurants and Institutions 2008 Top 400 Restaurant Chains list, Sandella’s Flatbread Café is a branded fast casual restaurant concept with premium quality, great tasting, flatbread products that are easy to execute—everything on the menu is made in four steps or less.