the first buffalo wild wings were located in the city of columbus.
the first buffalo wild wings were located in the city of columbus.
what city was the first buffalo wild wings located in?
columbus
buffalo wild wings & weck was founded in 1982 by jim disbrow and scott lowery. lowery's parents had become disbrow's guardians as they were his ice skating coaches. after disbrow had finished judging an amateur figure skating competition at kent state university, the pair met up to get some buffalo-style chicken wings to eat. failing to find any restaurant serving them, they decided to open their own restaurant serving wings. for the first location, they selected a location near ohio state university, columbus. weck was an original part of the name, as beyond the wings and its dozen sauces, the restaurant served beef on weck.
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smith was hired by buffalo wild wings in 1994 as the chief financial officer and was promoted to president and ceo in 1996, when the chain had about 70 locations. under smith's leadership, the chain restaurant expanded from 35 locations in 1994 to 1175 as of february 2016. in april 2017, marcato capital management, which had acquired a stake in buffalo wild wings the prior year, called on smith to resign, citing concerns with the restaurant chain's sales and stock performance. in june 2017, marcato capital management announced that buffalo wild wing's shareholders had elected three of its activist investor's nominees to the company's board, including mick mcguire, marcato's founder and managing partner. the company announced that smith would step down at the end of 2017. however, earlier in 2017, smith had already began negotiations of a potential sale of buffalo wild wings to roark capital group, a atlanta-based private equity firm, and parent of arby's restaurant group. smith stayed in her role as ceo through february 2018, overseeing the completion of the sale of buffalo wild wings to roark, as a strategic acquisition by roark's arby's restaurant group. roark capital agreed to buy buffalo wild wings for about $2.9 billion.
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