

Our team is here to provide the support and training you need to ensure your store starts off strong and continues to grow. Opening a new business is a huge undertaking, but you don’t have to do it alone. We make it as easy as possible to run our system, so we keep our product line limited.

“We give to the community as much as we possibly can,” Jessica said. An array of specialty drinks and dipping sauces enhance the pretzel taste, while monogrammed merchandise including “Get Twisted” tee shirts, beach towels, baby bibs, water bottles and mustard dips speak to the company’s public persona.īut Cranberry isn’t Philadelphia, and the family knows it.

The Factory’s menu is filled with different varieties of “Philly-Style” soft pretzels – hand twisted and freshly baked. The couple, who are themselves Cranberry residents, have made their Factory store a family enterprise with several other relatives who also work there including the Wuenschell’s nieces, sister, father, and sons Anthony, 22, and Christopher, 20, who come in during college breaks. Since last July, the owners of that franchise have been the husband-wife team of Joseph and Jessica Wuenschell. It was a huge success which today boasts more than 160 stores in 19 states, including one in Cranberry Commons. Dan’s business idea grew and in 1998, together with a college roommate, he opened the first Philly Pretzel Factory.

But for young Dan Dizio, an enterprising 11-year old, there was one exception: soft pretzels.īuilding on his success selling pretzels at a busy intersection in the city’s downtown, Dan organized kids from his neighborhood to work for him in other areas of the city. There’s nothing soft about the mean streets of Philadelphia where fictional boxer Rocky Balboa rose to fame after pounding his opponents into the ground. Cranberry's Pretzel Factory Gets a New Twist
