Spicy Pickle Strengthens Management; Announces New CEO

The Company will divide its current CEO/President role and appoint Mark Laramie as CEO, while Marc Geman will continue to be the President. Mr. Laramie will assume his position immediately.

Mr. Laramie is a restaurant executive with over 30 years' experience in growing companies and expanding regional brands into national and international markets. Mr. Laramie has extensive experience in retail operations, franchising, brand management and organizational development. From 1983 to 1998 he was the Group VP of Franchising for Little Caesars Enterprises Inc., overseeing 600 franchise entities consisting of more than 3500 Little Caesars restaurants. He also was the managing partner of a 53-store franchisee of Little Caesars. From 1998 to 2001 he was the COO of Quiznos Classic Subs and then President/CEO of Quiznos of Canada and the UK. From 2002 to 2006 he was President/COO of Papa Murphy's International where he helped build that chain to over 1000 restaurants. Since 2007, Mr. Laramie has been the CEO/Chairman of Pinnacle Restaurant Group and FranExecs Consulting Group. 

Mr. Geman, President, said, "We have been working steadily to improve both our Board of Directors and bring in C level personnel with extensive experience in growing franchise chains and refining retail operations. Mark Laramie fits these criteria perfectly. With his background we add the needed ingredient of operational know how for rapid expansion while we continue to look at multiple opportunities for the growth of our system. I look forward to working with Mark and having someone with his restaurant experience and skills to help us firmly establish both our brands -- Spicy Pickle and Bread Garden Urban Cafes -- throughout North America and beyond."

Mr. Laramie said, "The team at Spicy Pickle has done a wonderful job of growing the brand through these critical early years and I am honored to join the team at this stage. Our brands have the nucleus of a great staff as well as dedicated franchise operators and we will now take our systems and development to the next level. It is a very exciting time for Spicy Pickle and Bread Garden Urban Café and I am very happy to be a part of it."

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