Our story
Flatbread Grill is a fast casual Mediterranean bakery and grill, started in New Jersey in 2007 by three sisters: Fusun, Gonca and Arzu Esendemir.
When we started
2007. Our first restaurant opened in Upper Montclair, New Jersey in March 2008. Hoboken followed in August 2015.
Who started it
Three sisters who grew up in their parents’ Turkish restaurants in New Jersey.
Why
To support our family, and to serve the fresh bread and Mediterranean food we grew up on.
Thumb Bread
We created Thumb Bread in 2007 for the Flatbread Grill menu and made it by hand in our restaurants for years. Today it is its own brand, sold fresh in grocery stores. Visit thumbbread.com.
Press
- Sisters’ restaurant survives recession by making dough NJBIZ
- Flatbread Grill’s expansion and beyond NJBIZ
- Turkish-American sisters now franchising Flatbread Grill Fast Casual
- The Esendemir Sisters of Flatbread Grill Hoboken Girl
- Flatbread Grill’s Thumb Bread in local grocery stores Hoboken Girl
Also featured in The New York Times, The Star-Ledger, Inc. Magazine, USA Today, QSR, Nation’s Restaurant News and Montclair State University magazine.