Border Foods continues its investment throughout our home state, opening its 102nd Minnesota Taco Bell in Austin, MN on October 20. The first 100 lucky guests that day received an exclusive “golden ticket,” granting recipients up to four free tacos per week for an entire year!
Border Foods’ new Austin location is the city’s first ever Taco Bell. We modernized a former Hardee’s building and as part of the transition, are proud to have retained seven Hardee’s team members to join our crew.
The Taco Takeover
Carolyn Molhusen, the location’s General Manager (GM), previously worked at Hardee’s for seven and a half years. A local resident since 2004, Carolyn says when she heard Hardee’s was closing, she knew she didn’t want to have to travel for work.
So she hopped online to do some research. Border appeared to be a nice company with good people, opportunity, and an emphasis on training and education.
Carolyn became a Border Foods employee mid-August. She spent several weeks training at a few different locations, including nearby Stewartville (whose high sales volume is projected to match Austin’s expected volume) and our Sioux Falls, SD Kitchen X.
Prior to Austin’s grand opening, she said: “I think it will be a cool experience to open up this new store and see how everything unfolds.” She also admitted she couldn’t wait to see Day 1 sales numbers!
An Aspiring Area Coach
Weeks before the opening, we also connected with GM and Area Coach (AC) in Training Alex Carda who has spent part of his career at one of the training locations, our Stewartville Taco Bell. It’s the area’s closest Taco Bell – until now.
“I’m just excited to bring them a Taco Bell,” he says.
Alex is no stranger to restaurant openings. He says what’s exciting for him is introducing high schoolers to employment, teaching them about work ethic and helping to grow the community presence.
Aspiring to become an AC one day soon, he enjoys the training aspect of the job. “Watching over the area – helping the GMs grow and work through the processes and standards” is what he likes, he says.
Like many others within our company, Alex also likes to help GMs grow into the best versions of themselves. So we know Carolyn and Assistant General Manager (AGM) Randy Schumacher are in good hands!
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1406 4th St. NW
Austin, MN
