Newk’s Eatery
2680 Crane Ridge Dr, Jackson, MS 39216-4905
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Approximately 95-100% of the Newk’s Eatery restaurant locations are linked in the Atlas Research Platform.
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Newk's Eatery is a fast casual restaurant franchisor headquartered at 2680 Crane Ridge Drive in Jackson, Mississippi 39216. The concept was founded in 2004 as Newk's Express Cafe in Oxford, Mississippi, by father and son chefs Don and Chris Newcomb together with co-founder Debra Bryson, and the first franchised restaurant opened in 2005. The company adopted the Newk's Eatery name in 2013 and introduced an updated restaurant design while keeping its original family recipes. Private equity firm Sentinel Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in 2014, and in 2023 the brand was acquired by FSC Franchise Co, a Tampa, Florida based franchise company, which now serves as its parent company. Although predominantly franchised the system also includes company-operated restaurants. Restaurants operate in a fast casual format and serve lunch and dinner, with an American menu of fresh-tossed salads, oven-baked sandwiches, flatbread pizzas, made-from-scratch soups and house-made cakes, along with catering and online ordering for pickup. A typical restaurant offers about 150 seats in roughly 3,500 square feet.
Newk’s Eatery Growth History
Newk’s Eatery Vector Profile
RestaurantData’s selected archived development trail for Newk’s Eatery begins with a June 2006 report in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It follows early multi-state activity, wider market reach through 2014 and a broader combined history in 2015-2019. Later opening-year research and development reports extend the view into 2026.
For sales teams and investors, these historical windows help identify markets for closer review, compare current development with earlier activity and place individual locations within the brand’s longer expansion history.
Four selected historical windows
- 2006-2009
Early multi-state activity
10+ opening signals5+ states with signals
- 2010-2014
Wider development trail
20+ opening signals10+ states with signals
- 2015-2019
Broader combined history
50+ opening signals10+ states with signals
- 2021-2026
Later activity
10+ opening signals5+ states with signals
Newk’s Eatery’s development arc
Selected opening signals and researched location history, 2006-2026.
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Vector readout: The 2006-2009 trail documents activity across 5+ states, followed by 10+ states in 2010-2014. The combined 2015-2019 history contains 50+ selected opening signals across 10+ states, including locations in Colorado and Oklahoma. Later research adds evidence in Kansas and other markets through 2026.
Recent arc in development. The 2021-2026 window contains 10+ selected opening signals across 5+ states. Additional verified records may extend this view; 2026 is a partial year.
RestaurantData source trail: Archived reports draw on state and legal filings, building permits and regional news. Atlas by RestaurantData™ contributes researched opening-year attributes to the later segment. A development report year and an opening year can differ for the same location.
Restaurant location examples along the expansion arc
- 2006Development report year
Newk’s Eatery
205 University Blvd E
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
Tuscaloosa County - 2014Development report year
Newk’s Eatery
5060 Bayou Blvd
Pensacola, FL 32503
Escambia County - 2017Researched opening year
Newk’s Eatery
10012 Commons St
Lone Tree, CO 80124
Douglas County - 2023Researched opening year
Newk’s Eatery
1700 S College Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Larimer County - 2025Researched opening year
Newk’s Eatery
23900 US Hwy 80 E
Statesboro, GA 30461
Bulloch County - 2026Development report year
Newk’s Eatery
3905 N Ridge Rd, Suite 220
Wichita, KS 67205
Sedgwick County
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Source: RestaurantData U.S. restaurant-location research. Headquarters and franchisee headquarters are excluded. The first two windows use archived development records; later windows use combined development and opening-year research, counting each address once at its earliest included dated evidence. Signal and state bands are rounded down. They do not represent complete opening totals, currently operating units or net growth.
The latest included development record is September Week 1, 2026. A development record may describe a planned restaurant. The six examples use their stated date basis; Tuscaloosa’s 2006 label is a research year. Location-file verification dates are not opening dates, and a historical record does not establish present operating status.
Source availability varies across jurisdictions and years. The wider research coverage in the dotted segment should be considered when comparing periods. Unresolved opening years are not used to assign opening dates; gaps do not by themselves establish a pause or contraction.
The six displayed restaurant examples were cross-checked against Google Maps on November 3, 2026 and showed operating listings. Their year labels identify historical research periods or researched opening years, separate from this status check.
Read the Restaurant Vector™ overview for the research method and source definitions.
Historical reference: Newk’s Eatery in the 2018 Top 300 Restaurant Concepts report on RestaurantChains.net.
For additional historical addresses and source details, see the Newk’s Eatery location archive on RestaurantChains.net.
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