Lamb: Traveling Tom's Coffee franchise sales grew from 20 to 90 trucks
Tony Lamb · Kona Ice: Tony Lamb · Nov 6, 2023 · at 1:08:57
Tony Lamb, founder of Kona Ice, discusses the rapid franchise expansion of his spinoff mobile coffee brand, Traveling Tom's Coffee.
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“October of twenty-twenty, we wrote a prototype of a very elaborate coffee truck that hit the streets, and just a couple of them, and they started doing really well. We put them in a couple other franchisees' hands. The following year, in twenty-twenty-one, I think we sold 20. We sold 30 more in twenty-twenty-two, and then this year, we've already got 90 sold.”
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