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For Immediate Release
November 24, 2008

Sandella’s Flatbread Café to Take Flight in Newark Airport

Hot Flatbread Café Concept to Open in Newark, New Jersey Airport

West Redding, CT, November 24, 2008— Abe Dortheimer and his company, Silver Lining, have franchised with Sandella’s Flatbread Café to bring a new unit in Terminal B1 of Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. Dortheimer plans to open his Sandella’s location by the summer of 2009 and has operated several other concepts in the airport including Wetzel's Pretzels, Pizzeria Uno Express and A & W Hamburgers.

Sandella’s Flatbread Café is a fast casual concept with more than 125 locations open nationwide, including a brand new store in Hollywood, California and a new franchise development agent for Boston and New Hampshire. Sandella’s isn't slowing down with 400 restaurants in development across the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates.

“The flatbread enhances the taste of the food inside it,” says Dortheimer. “We feel that the variety, freshness, high quality and great taste come together to make Sandella’s a very exciting concept. It will be the first and only flatbread concept in the airport, and I think it will be a huge hit!”

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.