Aka Friscos

The original aka Friscos opened its doors on October 17th, 1990 @ 4115 Wisconsin Ave. in Washington DC. It was exactly one year after the big earthquake in San Francisco. The hours were 8am 3pm. It grew in volume and employees over the next couple of years. Coffeeand homemade muffins purchased in SF were popular but did not generate the revenue we needed to stay open – they soon became better decorations than big sellers. Soon the Lunch business was picking up speed and catering started doing very well. Friscos discontinued breakfast in 1991 and stopped serving gourmet products in 1992. The 1300 square foot café was starting to gain attention and was really busy for lunch. In 1993, We experimented with a 2nd Friscos. It was opened in a large office building as a pilot to having several Friscos in other office buildings. Aside from serving excellent food, Friscos had started building its own identity and character. We were not afraid to try new things and always creating something new. That pilot store did pretty good but confined Friscos to a general lack of character so we decided to not pursue the office avenue any further. Meanwhile, the original Friscos was getting busier every month. In 1997 we, again experimented with a 2nd Friscos. This time we purchased the land and built a 2500 square foot, two story building in a small business park located in Frederick, Md. (our current location) The Frederick location opened in November of 1997. It retained the same menu as in DC, but was a warehouse style restaurant that has 70 seats and is larger in every way from the original. We held onto the same basic concepts and systems. The DC Friscos remained open for 3-4 more years before we finally decided to close it due to traveling distance and increasing rent.. Closing the DC Friscos was sad but that restaurant clearly paved an opportunity for opening our current location. Frederick aka Friscos opened in 1997. DC closed in 2001. We worked hard on developing our food conce