Bob and Barbara Ganse, along with daughter and son-in-law Steve and Jenny Beaudoin, became BWW franchisees 17 years ago.
Ganse/Beaudoin Group operates four restaurants in Virginia and West Virginia. The third generation joined the family business this
summer when the Beaudoins’ oldest daughter began working for the company.
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Ohio. This location was the 12th site
systemwide; with over 1,100 Buffalo Wild
Wings locations nationwide now, we are
proud to say we have been here since the
beginning,”said Gerald “Jerry” Franklin Jr.
Gerald Franklin Sr., who passed away
July 25, 2016, at the age of 93, was just the fourth franchisee to
enter the Buffalo Wild Wings brand, setting an example for not
just his biological family but BWW franchisees as well. Franklins’
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From East Coast to West and everywhere in between, you
will find a BWW family operation. Many of them are longtime
franchise locations, beginning early with the brand, so the
progression to a family affair was a natural one.
Take, for example, Ohio-based Franklins’ Management of
Cleveland. When property owned by the late Gerald Franklin Sr.
in the Flats of downtown Cleveland, Ohio, landed in the hands
of a new restaurant concept called BW-3 in 1992, Franklin and
his son decided to look into becoming franchisees.“One year
later, in 1993, we opened our first location in Parma Heights,