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New Così
Restaurant to Open at Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio
DEERFIELD, Ill., August 1, 2013 -- Così, Inc.
(NASDAQ: COSI), the fast casual restaurant company, today announced
the opening of a new restaurant at the Easton Town Center in
Columbus, Ohio. The restaurant is expected to open on Friday,
August 9th with a grand
opening to follow on Saturday, August 17th.
Guests can expect a refreshed dining experience offering an
urban spin on a classic café located in the newly developed,
family-friendly Fenlon Square area in the center.
"Easton Town Center is a great location for our
newest Così restaurant," said Stephen Edwards, President and CEO of
Così, Inc. "We look forward to serving our hand-crafted and
hearth-fired selections to the shoppers in Fenlon Square and
beyond."
The centerpiece of Così is its unique open hearth.
From artisan pizzas to sandwiches on freshly-baked signature
flatbread, the hearth offers "made from scratch" baking all day,
every day where guests can watch Così bakers make fresh bread every
30 minutes. Diners can expect contemporary foods with
interesting tastes, textures and aromas at the new location.
Updated flavors and featured seasonal menu items such as the Smart
Fit Salad and warm Cubano Sandwich are sure to excite a variety of
palates.
Inspired by its heritage, the new space elevates
the fast casual experience with delightfully unexpected features
that echoes cues from the restaurant's classic and contemporary
fare. Various seating options, including counter stools at
community tables, high-top seating, banquettes, two-tops and patio
tables, accommodate many ways to relax, chat and enjoy the cuisine.
Diverse textures, including marble countertops, reclaimed wood and
brick walls, dark mocha tiles and industrial-inspired lighting
pendants evoke an authentic, premium, but approachable feel.
In addition to Easton Town Center, Così currently
has four other locations in the greater Columbus area at the
Polaris and Sawmill shopping malls as well as in Bexley and
Worthington.
About Così,
Inc.
Così®
(http://www.getcosi.com) is a national fast casual restaurant chain
that has developed featured foods built around a secret,
generations-old recipe for crackly crust flatbread. This artisan
bread is freshly baked in front of customers throughout the day in
open-flame stone-hearth ovens prominently located in each of the
restaurants. Così's warm and urbane atmosphere is geared towards
its sophisticated, upscale, urban and suburban guests. There are
currently 72 Company-owned and 48 franchise restaurants operating
in sixteen states, the District of Columbia, Costa Rica and the
United Arab Emirates. The Così® vision is to
become America's favorite fast casual restaurant by providing
customers authentic, innovative, savory hand-crafted food while
remaining an affordable luxury.
The Così® menu features
Così® sandwiches,
freshly-tossed salads, bowls, breakfast wraps, melts, soups,
Così®
Squagels®, flatbread
pizzas, S'mores, snacks and other desserts, and a wide range of
coffee and coffee-based drinks and other specialty beverages.
Così® restaurants
are designed to be welcoming and comfortable with an eclectic
environment. Così's sights, sounds, and spaces create a tasteful,
relaxed ambience that provides a fresh and new dining
experience.
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and related marks are registered trademarks of Così, Inc. in the
U.S.A. and certain other countries. Copyright © 2013 Così, Inc. All
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nutritional or safety aspects of beef, poultry, produce, or other
foods or the effects of food-borne illnesses, such as E. coli, "mad
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to attract and retain qualified franchisees and our franchisees'
ability to open restaurants on a timely basis; our ability to
locate suitable restaurant sites in new and existing markets and
negotiate acceptable lease terms; the rate of our internal growth
and our ability to generate increased revenue from our existing
restaurants; our ability to generate positive cash flow from
existing and new restaurants; fluctuations in our quarterly results
due to seasonality; increased government regulation and our ability
to secure required government approvals and permits; our ability to
create customer awareness of our restaurants in new markets; the
reliability of our customer and market studies; cost effective and
timely planning, design and build out of restaurants; our ability
to recruit, train and retain qualified corporate and restaurant
personnel and management; market saturation due to new restaurant
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ability to obtain additional capital and financing; adverse weather
conditions which impact customer traffic at our restaurants; and
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