where did the name fazoli's come from
Fazoli's
In October 2006 , Seed Restaurant Group sold the company to Sun Capital Partners for an undisclosed amount . At the time of the sale , Fazoli 's had a total of 319 locations , 179 of which were franchised , in 32 states . As part of the deal , Sun Capital replaced Toyoda with McDonald 's veteran Robert Weissmueller as Fazoli 's president and chief executive officer . In June 2008 , Weissmueller retired and was replaced with Carl Howard . When Howard took over , the company was suffering from declining sales and massive store closing as a result of severe cost cutting measures which was implemented by the previous management . The number of restaurants had been steadily declining after reaching a peak of 400 locations in 2004 . In July 2008 , a struggling franchisee in Arizona announced that it was closing all 13 of its Fazoli 's restaurants in the state .
In October 2006 , Seed Restaurant Group sold the company to Sun Capital Partners for an undisclosed amount . At the time of the sale , Fazoli 's had a total of 319 locations , 179 of which were franchised , in 32 states . As part of the deal , Sun Capital replaced Toyoda with McDonald 's veteran Robert Weissmueller as Fazoli 's president and chief executive officer . In June 2008 , Weissmueller retired and was replaced with Carl Howard . When Howard took over , the company was suffering from declining sales and massive store closing as a result of severe cost cutting measures which was implemented by the previous management . The number of restaurants had been steadily declining after reaching a peak of 400 locations in 2004 . In July 2008 , a struggling franchisee in Arizona announced that it was closing all 13 of its Fazoli 's restaurants in the state .