Nice brats

Sales numbers six months into market release of the Johnsonville Sizzling Sausage Grill have convinced Naples-based executive Shelly Stayer she must take the electric grill worldwide.

The first shipment of 10,000 grills from the manufacturer in China ran out in 30 days. Stayer figured to follow that order with orders of 20,000 at a time. The shipping number has since jumped to 60,000 units at a time, bringing the indoor grill's inventor closer to her initial sales goal of 1 million and setting her sights on an additional 1 million.

“My forecasting was off,” concedes Stayer, who is president of Johnsonville Sausage LLC and co-owner of Grace & Shelly's Cupcakes in Naples.