Bucking Bull opens 27th store in Grand Central Toowoomba, QLD

The 27th Bucking Bull fast food franchise opened its doors to hungry food court patrons last week in Toowoomba’s Grand Central Shopping Centre.

Grand Central Shopping Centre is located within Queensland’s Darling Downs region, which is approximately 130km west of Brisbane.

Bucking Bull’s traditional offer of delicious roast meals, fresh from the grill burgers, subs, sandwiches, spuds, snacks and myriad of home-style meals, is already proving to be a huge success in Toowoomba and has been well received by the locals – almost too well, “we kept running out of stock and topped national sales for the first three days. Toowoomba seems to be a meat and three veg kinda town and if these first four days are any indication we should be in for a busy time come winter”, says franchisee Elizabeth Gillam.

The burgers at the take away franchise have been a massive hit with customers, with 12 dozen bread rolls flying out the door last Thursday. Spuds are also proving their popularity, even with 2 other spud outlets within the food court. “I guess it proves if we do it well, the customers will buy it” says Franchise Operations Manager, Renee Johnston.

Within the first 4 days of trade, an unreal sales result of $19,000 was achieved which is testament to the outstandingly positive reaction by customers so far.

Franchisees, Arthur and Elizabeth Gillam are a very welcome addition to the Bucking Bull family. The Gillams also own another 2 restaurant and cafe franchise stores – Healthy Habits and Boost Juice – both located in Grand Central Shopping Centre.

Both Renee and Franchise Support & Training Manager, Rebecca Swain have been heavily involved with the set up and initial running of the new Toowoomba store. This hands on approach along with the dedication, experience and enthusiasm of Elizabeth and Arthur, has ensured a smooth opening and will ensure the continued success of the store.

The new Bucking Bull store is the result of a rebrand of the original Grand Central carvery, ‘Rojos’. On rebranding to Bucking Bull, Elizabeth says “Once we started the research on the Bucking Bull franchise we found that a lot of work had been done to roll the franchise out to a lot more centres and their forward planning seemed exceptional”.

“Since we had been operating a carvery we found that the time saving methods used by Bucking Bull enabled us to run a better labour percentage. We thought we had secured exceptional prices from our suppliers – we had – but Bucking Bull had secured even better buying”.

Much of the original Rojos staff are still on board, with the addition of some new team members too. Based on the massive sales increases the store has been experiencing, they have quickly found the need for more staff and are bringing new people on board each day.

Elizabeth and Arthur are now on a mission to ensure the systems and practises used in their store are smooth and that staff are fully trained to put them on track to achieving the “top sales per trading hour in the system”, says Elizabeth.