Romp n' Roll is on a Roll!
I grew up going to Romp n' Roll, and looking back at it years later, I became a fan of the preschool gym and music center, and started to research it a little more. Here’s an interesting news article about RnR I found on Richmond.com . Henrico County-based children’s gym company Romp n’ Roll is on a roll. Working with partners in China, the company has opened 85 new franchise locations in the Asian nation since 2010. It also has eight locations in the U.S., including three corporate-owned gyms and play centers in the Richmond area. Two new franchise locations are scheduled to open in Raleigh, N.C., and Orlando, Fla., by the end of the year. “We started in the U.S. and got off to a really good start with a bunch of locations in the first year or two,” said Michael Barnett, Romp n’ Roll CEO, who co-founded the company in 2004 with his wife, Babz Barnett. “Then China happened,” Michael Barnett said. “We realized very quickly what was going to happen there,” he said, speaking f...