Brands worth operating. Real estate worth owning.
Gramcor is a founder-led company in Charlotte. We franchise and operate three brands across the U.S., Canada and the Dominican Republic, develop two concepts of our own, and sponsor the commercial real estate underneath. Small team, short decision path.
Tell us what you’re considering. We’ll give you a straight answer.
Privately held, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Dapper Doughnut, CoreLife Eatery and THE DRIPBaR — four positions in all.
The countries our franchise rights reach today.
Hometown Daytime Restaurants and Sport Fundamentals, both built in-house.
Three brands, four positions.
Brands you already know, run by people you can reach. Each position carries its own role and territory, and that decides how we invest, staff and support.
Franchisor · Canada
THE DRIPBaR — Canada
IV vitamin therapy and cellular health. Through our ownership stake in the company holding the brand’s Canadian rights, we award franchises nationwide.
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Area Representative · North Carolina
THE DRIPBaR — North Carolina
The same brand, a separate position. We award and support franchises across the whole state.
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Dapper Doughnut
Hot mini doughnuts and good coffee. Retail and mobile models, in the USA and the Dominican Republic.
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Area Representative · Operator
CoreLife Eatery
Made-from-scratch bowls and greens. We hold the area representation and operate the restaurants ourselves in the Carolinas and Virginia.
Brand detailBrands you’ll get to know.
Two concepts of our own, with trademarks and operating models built in-house. Same discipline we bring to someone else’s brand.
Hometown Daytime Restaurants
Modern experience. Everyday value. Breakfast, brunch and lunch, 7am to 3pm — a current room, warm service and an everyday check.
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Sport Fundamentals
An all-indoor sports, performance and recovery hub. Training, teams, recovery and a clubhouse under one roof — opening with baseball.
See the conceptHowever you found us, there’s a door for you.
Franchise candidate, investor, landlord, or just curious about what we run — pick the one that sounds like you.
Own a franchise
Take on a territory with a brand we already operate ourselves. We will walk you through what it actually takes, in plain numbers and plain language.
Franchise opportunitiesDevelop and invest with us
LP and GP structures, conservative underwriting, and reporting you can plan around. We sponsor commercial real estate and participate in a medical and commercial development syndicate.
Real estate & developmentExplore the portfolio
Four positions across three brands, plus two concepts of our own in development. Every role and territory is written down.
See the brandsThe unglamorous work that makes stores open on time.
Four capabilities we run in-house, for our own units and for the operators and partners who work with us.
Development & site selection
AI location intelligence through Locate.ai — where two of our founders serve as Directors — paired with our own read of the street, the co-tenants and the drive times.
Underwriting & capital
Conservative models, LP and GP structures, and investor reporting to an institutional standard. If a deal only works in the best case, we say so.
Training & culture
People and culture led by a co-founder with a Master of Education. Training built to be taught, not just handed over in a binder.
Operations & opening support
Build-out coordination, opening plans and coaching that keeps going after opening week — because that is when the questions get real.
Operating brands, and the real estate behind them.
Franchise Platform
We hold and manage franchise rights: franchisor of Dapper Doughnut in the USA and the Dominican Republic, area representative for THE DRIPBaR in North Carolina, franchisor of THE DRIPBaR across Canada through our ownership stake in the company holding the brand’s Canadian rights, and area representative and operator for CoreLife Eatery in the Carolinas and Virginia.
Day to day that means candidate qualification, territory planning, site selection, opening support and coaching that continues once you are open.
Real Estate & Development
We structure and sponsor commercial real estate, acting as sponsor and general partner alongside limited partners, and we participate in a syndicate developing medical and commercial properties.
On the development side we handle site selection, build-out coordination and multi-unit rollout — including the purpose-built facilities for our Sport Fundamentals concept.
Efficient. Professional. Courteous.
Three words we hold ourselves to. They are operating instructions, not slogans.
Efficient
Small team, short decision path. You reach a decision-maker, not a call center — and we will tell you no when the numbers say no.
Professional
Documented processes, disciplined underwriting and reporting that meets institutional expectations, at any deal size.
Courteous
Franchisees, investors, landlords and guests all get the same thing: plain answers, promptly, with respect for their time.
Founder-led, from underwriting to opening day.
Gramcor was founded in 2018 by Danny Grammenopoulos, Founder and CEO, with co-founders Marilyn Jackson, VP of People and Culture, and George Grammenopoulos, VP of Operations.
Danny’s work spans multi-unit franchise development, franchisor operations, real estate syndication, financial modeling and investor relations. Danny and George also serve as Directors on the real estate advisory team at Locate.ai, which keeps AI location intelligence close to our site decisions.
Between them the founders hold graduate degrees in management and education, health sciences training, commercial real estate brokerage experience, and two decades of running units — which is why franchise support, underwriting and operations are not outsourced here.
Tell us what you’re considering.
A territory, a site, a syndication, or just a question about one of the brands. Write a few lines and you will hear back from someone who can actually decide something.