A New Start With Gourmet Sandwich Franchise

The News Tribune.com:

Kelly Wolff has had a busy year.

In February 2007, Wolff and her sister were approved to open a Jimmy John’s gourmet sandwich franchise. The two started looking across the nation to find home for their business. They had run franchises before, including a tea shop and a Starbucks in their hometown of Minneapolis. Wolff went to the University of Puget Sound and lived in Tacoma until the mid-’90s, so why not here?

She moved here last Labor Day to start work on the shop – which opened about three weeks ago in a strip mall next to the Red Robin on Tacoma Mall Boulevard. Since then, she and her 25-person staff have been preparing simple sandwiches faster than she could imagine.

Business is going well, she said, but she appeared to be most excited about coming back and working in her second home, after spending 14 years in her first.