Get to know more about us! Browse this page for interviews, podcasts, and videos featuring the Esendemir Sisters, as well as reviews and write-ups about our restaurant concept, Flatbread Grill® and our extraordinary artisanal bread, Thumb Bread®.
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- Thumb Bread® and the Esendemir Sisters to Exhibit at Summer Fancy Food Show in New Jersey Pavilion, Supported by NJSTEP Grant (Specialty Food Association, June 2025)
- Monthly Monitor from the Office of Export Promotion (Issue #2, April 2025)
- Baking Business (Meet The Baker: Thumb Bread’s Arzu Esendemir, April 2025)
- The DOS Way with Lieutenant Governor Tahesha Way (Episode Two, March 2025)
- Thumb Bread® and the Esendemir Sisters to Exhibit at Summer Fancy Food Show in New Jersey Pavilion, Supported by NJSTEP Grant (Specialty Food Association, June 2024)
- The Montclair Girl (Flatbread Grill’s Famous Thumb Bread Heading To Cedar Grove, March 2023)
- Food Means Business Podcast (Building A Food Business From The Ground Up With The Esendemir Sisters, March 2023)
- Food & Beverage Insider (From Fast Casual to CPG: How three sisters broke into the bread aisle, March 2023)
- Turk of America Magazine (Heart-Warming Inspirational Story of Esendemir Sisters, December 2022)
- PIX11’s New York Living (A Lot of Dough, Sisters Behind Thumb Bread on Their Rise, November 2022)
- Your New Jersey (Your New Jersey, August 2022)
- The Hoboken Girl® (You Can Now Find Flatbread Grill’s Thumb Bread in Local Grocery Stores, July 2022)
- New Jersey Morning Show (3 Sisters Created Thumb Bread, June 2022)
- Shoprite (Hear the Esendemir Sisters in their own words talk about what Thumb Bread means to them, April 2022)
- Forktales (Gonca Esendemir, Social Media Maven, April 2022)
- The American Turkish Society (The American Turkish Society Announces its Tenth Class of “Young Society Leaders”- YSLs, February 2022)
- Clubhouse Audio (Covid Survival Strategies for Restaurant Owners with Gonca Esendemir, March 2020)
- QSR (For 13 Years, Nothing Has Stopped the Esendemir Sisters and Flatbread Grill,
December 2020) - Ovation (Motivation And Flatbread With Gonca Esendemir, December 2020)
- National Restaurant Owners Podcast (Gonca Esendemir | Flatbread Grill – Co-Founder/CMO, December 2002)
- Forbes (25 Chefs Share Their Favorite Moments Of 2020, December 2020)
- Audarshia’s LIVE! Culinary Series (The Esendemir Sisters, December 2020)
- Leaders In Business Podcast (Leaders In Business Podcast with Gonca Esendemir of Flatbread Grill, November 2020)
- Nation’s Restaurant News (12 fast-casual Mediterranean concepts poised to grow, February 2018)
- Street Insider (The Esendemir Sisters Become the First Turkish-American Women to Start a Global Franchise Concept, January 2018)
- Franchise Dictionary (Flatbread Grill® Now Offering Worldwide Franchise Opportunities, January 2018)
- Chicpea JC (The Esendemir Sisters, Owners of Flatbread Grill, January 2018)
- Fast Casual (Turkish-American sisters now franchising Flatbread Grill, January 2018)
- Modern Restaurant Management (Flatbread Grill Going Around the Globe and Wahlburgers Does the Impossible, January 2018)
- QSR (Fast Casual Flatbread Grill is Now Franchising, January 2018)
- Jersey Digs (Hoboken’s ‘Flatbread Grill’ Expanding to Journal Square, September 2017)
- Kiosk Marketplace (Independent fast-casual wades into self-serve kiosks, Part 1, September 2017)
- USA Today (Rainbow hummus at Flatbread Grill in Hoboken, June 2017)
- Patch.Com (Hoboken Women Business Owners Honored For Outstanding Contributions,
November 2016) - The Hoboken Girl® (Hoboken Girl{s} of the Week: The Esendemir Sisters of Flatbread Grill, July 2016)
- The Hoboken Girl® (Flatbread Grill Celebrates Pride in Hoboken with {Amazing} Rainbow
Hummus Platters, June 2016) - Grant Cardone TV (Women In Power: The Esendemir Sisters, January 2016)
- Glitter Magazine (Real People: Esendemir Sisters from Flatbread Grill, April 2015)
- Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls (SmartSisters, 2015)
- Relaunch (Rise Above Poverty to Build a Worldwide Enterprise – The Esendemir Sisters, March 2015)
- Urban Nation Radio (The Esendemir Sisters on the Cooks and Books Show on Urban Nation Radio, January 2015)
- CoActive Dreams (The Entrepreneurial Esendemir Sisters of the Flatbread Grill, October 2014)
- Her Agenda (A Peek Inside Her Agenda: The Esendemir Sisters, October 2014)
- Montclair State University Magazine (Recipe For Success, Fall 2014)
- Inc. (‘Without My Sisters, I Wouldn’t Be Able to Do This’, April 2014)
- QSR (When Family Means Business, November 2013)
- Montclair State University (All In The Esendemir Family, October 2013)
- QSR (Cleared for Launch, May 2013)
- NJ Biz (Eatery Survives By Making Dough, March 2010)
- The Star-Ledger (Three sisters at helm of Upper Montclair’s Flatbread Grill, February 2010)
- New York Times (Bread That’s Flat and Flavorful, May 2008)