Hot Head goal: ‘thousands’ of restaurants nationwide

Kettering-based Hot Head Burritos is rapidly expanding, both inside and outside the Miami Valley.

Hot Head, which opened its first store in Kettering in 2007, just opened its 13th location in the Dayton area and 25th overall store, and is on track to double that to about 50 locations by the end of 2012 with new locations in multiple states, according to Hot Head co-founder Ray Wiley.

“We want to become a national chain,” said Wiley, who also is the franchise owner of 10 Subway sandwich shops in the Miami Valley. “When I got into Subway in 1989, there were 1,000 stores. Now there are 35,000.

“Our goal is to have thousands of stores, to be honest with you. We expect to have as many as 500 stores in the next three to four years.”

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