Hot off the grill weekly publication, restaurant business writer Nathan Skid serves an update on a Flint-area burger group spreading throughout Southeast Michigan.
A site opened five months ago in Clarkston, an Oakland County community. (Facebook photo)
A half-decade ago, just nine Halo Burger sites existed and all were in Genesee County, he writes in Crain's.
Now the company has six restaurants in various stages of completion in Troy, Novi, Ferndale, Bingham Farms, Rochester and Brighton.
By next spring, company president Lou Dortch Jr. tells Skid, 20 sites will operate in Metro Detroit.
By the end of 2014, he said, as many as 25 Halo Burgers will be open in Southeast Michigan.
Dortch tells why his firm bought Halo in 2008:
"We liked that it was Michigan-based and 90 years old. Why bring in something from out of state when we could take this?"
