^{Source: Fazoli’s Restaurants
Before purchasing his own Fazoli franchise, Bob Sirkis was a vice president at the parent company that created the brand back in the late ’80s.}

ALABAMA – Bob Sirkis was sold on the Fazoli’s quick-service Italian restaurant before he even bought his first franchise 15 years ago. That’s because he was vice president of new concept development at the parent company that created the brand back in the late 1980s. After working for a number of different restaurant and retail companies over the years, Bob found himself in Dothan, Alabama, in 2001, and with his wife, Kendall, opened his own Fazoli’s restaurant.

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