00:00 Speaker A
Christine, uh, you know, as you look out, you’re you’re planning to open a a good number of restaurants between today and 2029. Um, when can you come to New York? Because when I look at New York, I look at some of these northeast locations, I mean it’s Dutch Bros like essentially would be hitting like a brick wall. I mean, you got Dunkin Donuts, you got Starbucks, uh really entrenched in these markets seemingly on every corner. Is New York City and the East Coast in your growth timeline?
00:23 Christine
Yeah, so as we have exciting growth ahead, um as you’ve shared, we plan to have 2029 shops in 2029. Uh we’re just about 1,200 today. Uh so that’s very rapid growth over the next couple of years. We have been in a competitive market for a very long time. We’ve been around since 1992. Uh we grew up in uh the Pacific Northwest. Uh so we are very used to uh competition and having all kinds of other options out there and we’re just excited that customers continue to choose us. Um on our plans to come to the East Coast, we we will continue to make our way up the East Coast. We’re in Florida, we’re in North Carolina, South Carolina now. Uh we do now have our a walk-up location uh in downtown LA, uh right outside the USC campus, uh which is doing incredibly well. So, uh excited to get there eventually, but we’re going to pace ourselves. Uh we grow from within, so with our own people, and every time we open a new market and a new shop, uh it’s with an operator that started with us as as a brosta uh and wants to grow with the company.