Press Release

TAMPA, Fla., March 29, 2023 — Data-analytics company SiteZeus is merging with franchise-development platform Synuma to help brands grow faster by leveraging comprehensive solutions for franchise sales, site development, and operations management.  

TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 29, 2022 — SaaS companies SiteZeus and Spatial.ai have teamed up to offer growing brands a cutting-edge customer-segmentation platform: SiteZeus Market, powered by PersonaLive™. Equipped with unprecedented insights, marketers across all industries can now craft highly tailored campaigns and deploy them efficiently. The end result: an increased return on every marketing dollar spent. This new technology empowers companies to truly understand their customers by transcending the limitations of traditional demographic data and surveys. A brand can now identify, analyze, and target its top customer groups based on their real-time social media activity, online behaviors, and in-store visitation patterns.

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 8, 2021 — Cousins Subs launched nearly five decades ago when cousins Bill Specht and Jim Sheppard decided to bring their favorite sub-style sandwich to the Midwest. The Wisconsin-based sandwich chain now operates nearly 100 stores in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana and remains hungry for growth. The company has always been driven by a strong mission – to Believe in Better. Their focus is on serving better quality food, building better communities, and now using better data-driven tools to help identify the best locations in which to expand and bring their concept to more consumers. Cousins Subs is using SiteZeus’ A.I.-powered location-intelligence platform to apply a scientific methodology to analyzing reinvestment, relocation, and remodeling decisions and ultimately drive more strategic and profitable infill expansion.

TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 31, 2021 — Krystal Restaurants has proved it has the chops – or in this case, the Bacon Cheese Krystals – to thrive in the competitive quick service restaurant business. The nearly 300-store concept has been serving generations of customers since 1932, but the company recognizes that its future success hinges in part on leveraging digital innovation to strengthen sales and scale the brand. In line with the Krystal growth plan, the multi-unit brand will be leveraging SiteZeus’ A.I.-powered location intelligence platform to better understand its customers and pick locations with high revenue potential.

TAMPA, Fla., June 28, 2021 — SiteZeus is pleased to announce its newest partnership with Tijuana Flats, an iconic fast-casual Tex-Mex restaurant with over 120 locations across Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, and Virginia. This partnership will allow the restaurant brand to execute its new expansion strategy with A.I.-powered solutions needed to make intelligent, location-based decisions.

TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 22, 2021 — Large, multi-unit brands typically focus expansion around concentrated, “hot” trade areas, but when they fail to calculate sales impact correctly, they risk overcrowding the market and cannibalizing their own sales. That's an expensive mistake that can quickly take a brand from profits to loss. To help avoid such costly errors, SiteZeus has announced the release of its new A.I.-powered Sales Impact solution which leverages mobile data and geofencing to empower real estate teams to run unparalleled analyses and help identify where to open their next location in an existing territory.

TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 11, 2021 — UK-based Gong Cha is one of the most recognized bubble tea brands in the world. The company has carefully crafted that success on a foundation of premium quality teas sourced from the finest tea estates in Taiwan. Since it was founded in 2006, Gong Cha has expanded to over 19 countries with nearly 14,00 locations worldwide, including 105 stores in the U.S. SiteZeus is excited to be helping the company rapidly and efficiently scale up its multi-unit footprint across the U.S.

TAMPA, Fla., July 16, 2020 — Today, SiteZeus announced that Savory selected its location intelligence platform to help make fast and effective real estate decisions that will fuel rapid expansion of its portfolio brands.

TAMPA, Fla., June 1, 2020 — SiteZeus is pleased to announce its newest partnership with Checkers & Rally's, an iconic and innovative drive-thru restaurant chain known for its exceptional value, people-first attitude and “Crazy Good Food." With nearly 900 locations and plenty of available territory in desired markets across the U.S., Checkers & Rally’s will leverage this A.I. powered, subscription-based platform to further expand its thriving portfolio, while making critical market planning decisions.

TAMPA, Fla. (May 18, 2020) — SiteZeus is thrilled to announce its partnership with Planned Grocery, a fully integrated data set focused on tracking the development cycle of grocery stores nationwide. This alliance represents a new chapter in unlocking true market potential for the grocery sector.  

TAMPA, Fla. (October 28, 2019) — SiteZeus, the leading location intelligence software company, has named retired Blaze Pizza CEO and fast-casual visionary Jim Mizes to its Board of Directors.

TAMPA, Fla. (September 30, 2019) — Smart growth, including managing cannibalization risk is a top priority for any growing franchise. In the real estate world, cannibalization occurs when sales at an existing store decrease because some customers begin shopping at a new nearby store or competitor site. Painting with a Twist will leverage SiteZeus’ location intelligence platform to understand cannibalization in the sip and paint category as it continues to maintain its category-leading status and ramp up franchise development.