Space Cowboys Restaurant Group
Po Box 487, Independence, KY 41051
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Space Cowboys Restaurant Group is an Independence, Kentucky multi-brand quick serve franchisee. Lifelong friends Mike Ash and Bill Aseere, who met in kindergarten in Covington and took the Space Cowboys name from a high school intramural team inspired by a Steve Miller song, launched the company in 2017 with college friend Mark Halpin. Aseere brought two decades of local pizza experience and a longtime love of a Columbus-born pizza brand, and the partners pitched its leadership for a multi-store development deal. When their first Independence site proved too big for pizza alone they paired it with frozen custard, eventually acquiring the Whit's Frozen Custard brand. They added chicken fingers in 2019 by buying existing franchises and opening a flagship in Fort Wright, and in 2023 acquired a large package of local pizza restaurants to become that brand's second-largest franchisee. Concepts are Donatos Pizza, Guthrie's Chicken Fingers and Whit's Frozen Custard. The company is centered on Northern Kentucky and the Greater Cincinnati area, with a reach into the Southeast. Restaurants are quick serve and serve lunch and dinner with pizza, chicken fingers and frozen custard. Typical units seat about 80 guests in roughly 2,000 square feet, reflecting shared co-branded buildings.
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