{"id":352007,"date":"2026-06-08T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352007\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:08:08","slug":"batter-up-pancakes-opening-new-clovis-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352007\/","title":{"rendered":"Batter Up Pancakes opening new Clovis location"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Batter Up Pancakes will open a franchised Clovis location at Shaw and Leonard this fall.The Clovis site will be the restaurant\u2019s first franchised location under Hilary Traina.Founders began franchising after running their own franchise, Great Harvest Bread Co.<\/p>\n

A new Batter Up Pancakes<\/a> restaurant is headed for Clovis.<\/p>\n

It will be the third in the Fresno area, at Shaw and Leonard avenues near the Tractor Supply at the Loma Vista Marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s expected to open this fall.<\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t a third location for the original owners of the popular breakfast and lunch restaurant known for its cinnamon pancakes. Instead, it\u2019s the first franchised location of the restaurant.<\/p>\n

That means it will have the same menu and the same recipe for the pancakes, but a different owner.<\/p>\n

Batter Up and franchising<\/p>\n

Batter Up first opened its Cedar and Nees avenues location in 2009. It gets so packed on weekends \u2014 and goes through 5,400 eggs a week \u2014 that people have been known to wait two hours for a table.<\/p>\n

It had a second location on Figarden Drive for a time, but that closed. In 2023, it opened another location<\/a> in Clovis at the southwest corner of Herndon and Fowler avenues.<\/p>\n

The restaurant is known for its creative pancakes, including chocolate chip and protein pancakes. Its traditional breakfast foods are popular too, especially its chilaquiles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had so many people come to us and say, \u2018Gosh, I\u2019d like to own a Batter Up,\u2019\u201d said Cristina Colla, who founded Batter Up Pancakes along with her parents, Jeff and Becci Colla.<\/p>\n

The new restaurant might look a little different than the existing locations. Colla called it \u201cstunning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s wild, what she\u2019s going to do,\u201d she said. \u201cHer plans are wildly gorgeous.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Colla family is working with several potential out-of-state franchisees on additional locations, though it\u2019s too early to tell if they will come to fruition, she said.<\/p>\n

The family decided to begin franchising after owning a Great Harvest Bread Co. franchise in the past.<\/p>\n

They wanted to create a system where Batter Up franchisees kept a greater percentage of the profits than many franchises.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to make so it was affordable and profitable,\u201d Colla said. \u201cThey get to keep most of the profit. What fun is that if they don\u2019t get to succeed?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"A A cinnamon pancake featuring handmade ingredients from scratch is paired with a freshly brewed cup of Lanna coffee at Batter Up Pancakes in Clovis in this Fresno Bee file photo from 2023. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com
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Bethany Clough covers restaurants and retail for The Fresno Bee. A reporter for more than 20 years, she now works to answer readers\u2019 questions about business openings, closings and other business news. She has a degree in journalism from Syracuse University and her last name is pronounced Cluff.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Batter Up Pancakes will open a franchised Clovis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-352007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}