Auntie Anne's Training Week

We're back!! It was an amazing week. We worked our fingers to the bone!! This all happened so fast. We basically found out last Saturday that the owner of a brand new Auntie Anne's (which has not opened yet) wanted to sell it to us. They are good friends who already own one A.A. in the area. They were opening their second store, when all of a sudden the funding wasn't working out for them. They did not want to give it up. Knowing we were ready for a store, but just couldn't find the right location, they offered it to us. We couldn't believe it. We were starting to look out of state because we just couldn't find a location in Texas. Now we have one in our hometown, so we won't have to move. Praise God!!

We spent the first three days in the A.A. headquarters in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They have an actual training store down in the basement. We trained on Monday and Tuesday, then on Wednesday, we opened the store for the headquarters employees. It was so much fun!!

Here we are making our first doughs.

My first pretzel. Yeah, it's a little messy. Trust me, I'm much better now.

We had a day where we made all the different pretzels and then got to taste them all with dips. Uh-huh! Fun!! D.S. is tasting the Pretzel Dog with Sweet Mustard Dip. That is his "Yum" face.

Graduation Day. On Thursday and Friday we actually worked a real store in a Walmart. We spent about 30 minutes at each station for at least 4 rotations. We had an awesome team and had so much fun. I'll tell you what though....we were exhausted at the end of each day.
There was a couple from Mexico City in training. They are taking A.A. into Mexico and will be opening franchises all over the place. We just loved getting to know them. They are a very sweet and wonderful couple. We also worked with a man opening a store in an airport and a lady who is a manager for 2 stores in Penn. She has been with A.A. for 3 years, but was coming in for some extra training. Our trainers were fantastic. I loved our training experience. We couldn't have asked for a better one.

Some pictures of Pennsylvania

D.S. goes back for manager training next week. My dad is there training this week so he can help us with training and opening. We are hoping to open before Thanksgiving. I will post pictures of the store when all the paperwork is done and it's officially ours.