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burst, and although he’d never aspired to a career in foodservice, that’s where he landed. At age 23, he was promoted to general manager before eventually ascending to director of operations in South Carolina, a position he held for about a decade until shortly after Golden Gate Capital acquired the brand in 2016. “ e culture was kind of deteriorat ing, and the brand itself was doing what brands that age typically do after a run like that. I wasn’t loving life; I had four small kids, so getting home late at night was not a great thing for my wife or for me as a father and husband,” Young says. He took some time off to do consult ing work in the franchise world, collab orating with brands like Raising Cane’s. Eventually Ryan Gripper, who would one day be his business partner, introduced him to Eggs Up Grill. After some digging, the pair along with two other partners filed their Franchise Disclosure Docu

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ment for northeast Columbia, South Carolina. ey were up and running by late 2018. A second store in Camden followed in February 2020, and in 2021, the quartet purchased an existing location in Rock Hill. en late last year, Young and his partners acquired three more units, whichmade them the largest fran chisee in the Eggs Up Grill system. On

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