It started with Great Harvest Bread – Taylorsville, Utah touts location, residents’ buying power to lure businesses

City administrators aren’t surprised by the Great Harvest http://www.greatharvest.com/ success.

With its aging malls and business centers, this suburb of 60,000 might not seem like a promising place to set up shop.

Rand and Jo Kunz beg to differ.

When the two bought a Great Harvest Bread Co. franchise in Taylorsville http://greatharvestutah.com/taylorsville/ in 1995, their accountants told them they were foolish because the store was failing. And they weren’t the only ones who said this community was a bad location.

"People said it would never work around here," Rand Kunz said. "We decided to give it a shot. Man, am I glad we did."

Today the store makes more than $1 million in sales a year, Kunz said. He credits Taylorsville itself, which he said was a "sleepy sort of surprise."

"It comes down to the people," he said. "We were embraced by the people in Taylorsville by offering something new and different."

By pamela manson

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