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Corporate events

A cigar roller your clients will remember you for.

Franklin Pichardo, master cigar roller, sets up wherever you put him and rolls without stopping. Within ten minutes there is a line, people are talking to people they never met, and every guest leaves with a cigar made in front of them — with your logo on the band, if you want it there.

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Trusted with the Fuente Opus X—At the Fuente table since 1995—Formula 1 Miami’s official roller—Featured in Cigar Journal—Chosen by Hublot, Tudor and Bell & Ross—

Trusted by the hard-to-impress

Brands that could hire anyone keep calling him.

  • YourguestsgettherollerFormula1Miamichose.

    Hublot has brought him back again and again, from Las Vegas to Chicago to Canada. Tudor set his table in a stone barn in Lancaster County, and Geneva Seal in Chicago, after a Hublot night, called him back for Bell & Ross. They hire him for the same reason you would: their guests are hard to impress, and nobody walks past his table.

  • Awatchhousefilmedthenight,andputhistableatthecenterofit.

    When Geneva Seal brought Bell & Ross to Chicago, his table sat right under the watch. Their own film of the evening keeps coming back to it, because that is where the room kept coming back to. Give your guests the same reason to stay.

Charles Barkley, Indianapolis · Bell & Ross at Geneva Seal, Chicago (the night).

Your guests

The line at his table is where your guests finally meet.

Guests standing around his long table at dusk, under string lights
Philadelphia, October 2024
Franklin rolling, close up, with guests standing and string lights behind
The pair of hands they are all watching

An open bar does not do it — people take a drink back to the group they came with. A line does, because you stand in it next to whoever is next to you, watching the same pair of hands, for four or five minutes. That is longer than most conference introductions last.

The band

Everybody knows where the branded water bottle ends up.

A green and gold cigar band with a crest and a monogram, printed for one of his events
A band printed for one of his events
One of his cigars with the blue Hublot band, in front of the watches on display
A band printed for a brand

He rolls the cigar in front of your guest, and when you add custom bands to your proposal, the band that goes on it is yours, printed with your logo in full color. It goes into an inside pocket and gets smoked three weeks later, somewhere else, by someone who reads the band before they light it.

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Your venue

Whatever room you have booked, his table will look like it belongs there.

The station is dressed for the room it is going into, and it has gone into most of them.

Your run of show

Put him where the night needs a lift.

  1. 01

    The reception

    People are arriving and nobody has been introduced yet. The table gives the early ones something to do that is not their phone.

  2. 02

    After the speeches

    The room has been listening for forty minutes and wants to move. This is where most hosts put him.

  3. 03

    The end

    Whoever is still there at eleven is the reason you booked the room. They stay longer with something to stand around.

What your venue provides

Your venue only has to find a table and some fresh air.

A table

Six feet is plenty. Everything that goes on it travels with him.

Fresh air

A terrace, a courtyard or a covered doorway — and by that hour that is where your guests want to be anyway.

Cover, if the forecast turns

A tent or a doorway. The table needs shade, not sun.

The part that matters to whoever signs

Clients don’t try him once. One has booked him every year for a decade.

Franklin rolling under the tent, at the Cleveland event
Cleveland, ten years with the same client
The table set up in a private hall, the second event of the same Saturday
Two events, one Saturday

An evening either goes well or it does not get repeated, so the only verdict worth reading is the second booking. And when two of his clients wanted the same Saturday in May, he worked both — in two states.

200+ reviews

They remember the man first.

Read what guests write afterwards, and the word so many of them reach for: family.

Franklin sat down with my wife and I and enjoyed a cigar with us. He treated us like family and gave us hugs on our way out. Papo is the real deal with a heart of gold and a sense of humor that can make anyone laugh.

Robert Kinnane

This season

Your clients will remember who brought him.

His latest corporate and brand evenings, each with the photographs from that night.

A Bell & Ross evening in ChicagoA Bell & Ross evening in ChicagoChicago, IL · Oct 2026BorgWarner’s cigar night at The GreenbrierBorgWarner’s cigar night at The GreenbrierWhite Sulphur Springs, WV · Oct 2026A Tudor evening at a Lancaster County barnA Tudor evening at a Lancaster County barnLancaster County, PA · Aug 2026Ten years with the same client, ClevelandTen years with the same client, ClevelandCleveland, OH · Jul 2026What a client is actually hiringWhat a client is actually hiringJun 2026Two venues in one dayTwo venues in one dayJun 2026Two events in one Saturday, New Jersey and PennsylvaniaTwo events in one Saturday, New Jersey and PennsylvaniaNew Jersey and Pennsylvania · May 2026The Indy 500 weekend, at a private auto clubThe Indy 500 weekend, at a private auto clubIndianapolis, IN · May 2026Official cigar roller, Formula 1 MiamiOfficial cigar roller, Formula 1 MiamiMiami Gardens, FL · May 2026

Before they book

What organizers ask.

One per guest is how the trade sizes an event and how he sizes yours. The count settles the hours.
They stay at the table anyway, and most take one home for somebody. Watching it made is the part people describe on Monday.
Almost none do. A terrace, a courtyard or a covered doorway is where it goes — and by that hour that is where your guests want to be.
Yes. Full-color bands with your logo are an add-on, priced in your proposal and settled when you book, along with the artwork. See examples of custom bands.
As long as you book him for. He arrives well before your first guest and packs up after the last cigar.
He has worked from Detroit to Indianapolis to Washington DC. Travel is settled with your date.

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