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St Kilda Melbourne and Brunswick St Brisbane NOW OPEN
November 2007
Just in time for Christmas, Sunshine Kebabs has open two more stores situated in busy fashionable districts of Melbourne and Brisbane.
The St Kilda store, situated along Fitzroy Street, has been fitted with our latest store design which is sure to please our most loyal customers. Being a destination store it opens until very late therefore you'll never have to go without your delicious Sunshine Kebab.
The Brunswick St store, situated opposite the Press Club in Fortitude Valley, is our first truly party store. Open until the nightclubs' close, we serve not only our delightful kebabs which people have come to enjoy and love but a variety of other delicious finger foods that party goers relish late at night.
Murat Coskun, Managing Director of Sunshine Kebabs said, both stores are a fantastic addition to our destination division of the expanding network. Both stores are available for a franchisee who loves to party.
"These stores will adapt to their new life and take on a wider variety of menu items than our shopping centre stores. We are on the look out for creative foodies to buy these stores and help us develop new and unique dishes," said Murat.
For details on these and any other store please contact Grant Stapleton our Business Development Manager on 0412 256 742.
ANOTHER STORE OPENS AT DAPTO
October 2007
Sunshine Kebabs has added yet another store to its portfolio when it opened a food court store at Dapto just south of Woollongong.
Located at the Dapto shopping centre food court, the new store will maintain the totally classic healthy approach to traditional Turkish kebabs with its unique blend of traditional spices, exclusive sunshine breads and innovative kebab cooking process.
Murat Cokun, Managing Director of Sunshine Kebabs said, Dapto is a great addition to the expanding network of Sunshine Kebab stores. We look forward to assisting our franchisees become an outstanding success.
Steve Kaynak, Franchisee owner said, we are looking forward to providing the local Dapto community with world class kebabs and Turkish cuisine they deserve.’
This is the sixteenth new store unveiled since Sunshine Kebabs franchisor announced a strategy to take the chain to 35 stores by end of 2008.
‘With a number of other new sites under negotiation I can confidently say we will take Sunshine Kebabs to 21 by end of 2007. It will create great career opportunities for the Sunshine Kebabs team, said Murat Coskun, Managing Director of Sunshine Kebabs.
Sunshine Kebabs to franchise
Retail News June
 Sunshine Kebabs is entering a new phase by bringing in franchisees to own their stores.
The Queensland kebab chain now has nine stores in the state, with five more to be added at Underwood, Chermside, Newmarket , Warwick and Noosa Civic. At least two of these are to be franchises, along with two existing stores.
MD Murat Coskun said he hoped to have 25 Sunshine Kebabs stores operating in Queensland within the next two years. The first outlet opened in 1988 in Bundaberg. Tasmania has also shown interest in Sunshine Kebabs franchises, with Coskun predicting an entry there in around six months.
:”We've had a bit of interstate interest, but Tasmania will be first. In about six months we will start with three stores in Hobart , and then one each in the bigger towns. In Queensland we started regional and we moved into Brisbane only a year ago. We want another couple of sites in the CBD and we are looking at the Gold Coast. We will concentrate on the Gold Coast after we open the five stores.”
There are two Sunshine Kebabs store formats – foodcourt outlets and café style stores outside shopping centres. At present the majority of stores are located in foodcourts, but in future there will be more of a focus on opening café stores.
The cafes sell kebabs as well as a host of other Turkish foods including pide, grills, salads and salad wraps. Also on offer are Turkish sweets and coffee. Foodcourts stores sell mostly kebabs. The advantage of standalone cafes is the extended trading hours.
“I think kebabs are underrated and haven't got the respect they really deserve. When done properly, a kebab is a good healthy product. The customer can pick what they want and enable the product to be very specific. But because it has not been done right and people have tried to cut corners and do dodgy jobs, a lot of people perceive it to be a food you eat when you are under the influence.
“We are fairly different to the way other Queensland operators make their kebabs. After the roasting on the spit we have a unique grilling process as well, so after the meat is cooked we grill it to ensure it is definitively a safe product. We take all necessary measures to ensure our product is always fresh and safe.”
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