“It went from us being open to them taking over,” Todaro says, calling the deal a “good opportunity” for both parties.
Stuart Ottinger, corporate manager for Double R Restaurant Group of Lafayette, says minor décor changes are under way, with an expected opening in mid-July. The restaurant is located at 4205 Perkins Road, between College Drive and Acadian Thruway.
Double R Restaurant Group, owned by Lafayette’s Rodney Savoy and longtime business partner Robert Gagnard of San Diego, is also the franchisee for Another Broken Egg, which opened a Baton Rouge store late last year in the former site of Harold’s clothing store in Citiplace. Ottinger says the group has signed a letter of intent for a second Baton Rouge location and also has signed an LOI in New Orleans. Another Broken Egg previously operated in the Capital City but shut down its two stores after a franchise dispute.
Along with Robert Daigle, Savoy and Gagnard developed River Ranch and Sugar Mill Pond. The duo’s Double R Restaurant Group, which does not own the Lafayette location of Another Broken Egg, has also been expanding the breakfast/lunch concept in North Carolina and Atlanta, Ottinger says.
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