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Dortch Enterprises is a company in the restaurant business as a Subway multiunit franchise operator and owns the Halo Burger chain. Dortch is only one of 38 out of the 17,000 Subway franchisees worldwide that owns 40 or more locations. ==History== The Louis Dortch family started out in the dry cleaning business with Troy Cleaners, now owned by other family members. Louis Dortch Sr. and Louis Dortch Jr. decided to expand from the dry cleaning business and opened a Flint Subway location in 1987. The duo followed with four more location in 13 months.〔 The company also became a franchisee of Qdoba Mexican Grill. Their first Qdoba was opened in Grand Blanc in 1998. An additional 14 locations in Genesee, Oakland, and Wayne counties would be build by 2008.〔 〕 In November 2008, Qdoba purchased Dortch's franchised locations. With the increasing number of Subways in the state and the sale of the Qdoba franchise, Dortch looked for another brand to expand in Michigan. Dortch originally settled on being a Sonic Drive-In franchisee. By 2010, they owned 40 Subway locations. Dortch Enterprises had negotiated for property for a Sonic location in Dearborn〔 and had Planning Commission approval for a Livonia Sonic location in March 2010. At the end of 2010, Dortch purchased the nine location Halo Burger chain〔 for about $10 million which led to them ending their Sonic franchisee.〔 In 2011, Dortch Subway Groups opened three more locations by June.〔 In August 2012, Dortch filed and received approval for a site plan for a joint Halo Burger-Subway location on Belsay Road in Burton. 2013 was a building blitz year for Halo Burger with nine more locations under constructions〔 with three opening by October, one of which was the joint Halo Burger-Subway location.〔Beaudoin, Andrea. (Halo Burger now open ). June 26, 2013. Clarkston News. Retrieved July 15, 2013.〕〔(Halo Burger Ribbon Cutting ). Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce. Accessed on November 1, 2013.〕 While Dortch Subway Groups was up to 65 locations in October for a net gain of 22 locations from 2011.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dortch Enterprises」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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