Illinois Feature Articles

Informative articles to support business buyers, franchisees, and franchisors in Illinois.

Area Representative On His Way To 10 Stores

Biggby Coffee South Carolina Multi-Unit Area Developer has a Plan for Growth.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
3,914 Reads 12 Shares

Checkers & Rally's To Add 30 Modular Units by End of Year

Checkers & Rally's Franchisees Turning to Brand's New 'Modular' Design Concept Enabling Them To Build More Quickly and at Lower Cost.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
4,895 Reads 28 Shares

Family Man: A Way of Life, Not Just a Way of Business

Mike Hamra grew up in the Midwest, where his parents ran a highly successful restaurant business, Hamra Enterprises.

Debbie Selinsky
17,429 Reads 130 Shares

Chicago Operators Adds Another Valvoline

Multi-unit operator adds a new Chicago location for Valvoline Instant Oil Change bringing the franchise operator's total number to 34 units across three states.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
10,544 Reads 2 Shares

The Right Economy for Franchising

Franchising is a larger part of the U.S. economy than most people realize.

Eddy Goldberg
30,360 Reads 100 Shares

Social Media Roundup: January 24, 2018

Social media marketing news you can use. This week: 1) Chicken Salad Chick offers 10 days of giveaways to celebrate its 10th anniversary; 2) Red Robin's $99 deal for 12 months of burgers sells out in one day; 3) Jason's Deli response to a data breach is a lesson in crisis management; and 4) Jack in the Box teams up with Snoop Dogg on a "Merry Munchie Meal" LTO ($4.20, of course) as recreational marijuana goes legal in California.

Eddy Goldberg
16,216 Reads 3 Shares

Houston-Based Operator Adding More Captain D's

Houston-Based Multi-Brand Operator Kicks Off The Year By Opening The First of Four New Captain D's Locations in The City.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
19,131 Reads 3 Shares

Millennial Data Mining: A Marketer's Dream Come True!

Online data from Millennials makes target marketing easier

Shawna Ford
21,049 Reads 5 Shares

Dhanani Dynasty II: Youngest Son of Family Business Branches Out

From his childhood growing up in Houston, Pakistani-born Amin Dhanani watched his father, the late Hassan Ali Dhanani, and family members build The Dhanani Group, a billion-dollar, mega-successful franchisee for Burger King and its own massive convenience store business.

Debbie Selinsky
70,526 Reads 51 Shares

Virginia Captain D's Operator Hits 20-Unit Mark

Virginia Multi-Unit Operator Opens 20th Captain D's location.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
7,415 Reads 3 Shares

2017 Dominators

Multi-unit, multi-brand operators continue expanding each year--a trend that continues to accelerate as these "Dominators" grow their portfolios through acquisitions, building new units, refranchising, and scooping up successful units from retiring franchisees.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
3,292 Reads

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Saxton Group Takes McAlister's Deli Into Iowa

Largest McAlister's Deli Franchisee Brings New Location To The State Of Iowa.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
4,520 Reads 5 Shares

Current Trends in Franchising

Franchising has matured since Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's in 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois. First-day sales at that restaurant were $316.12. In 2016, McDonald's annual sales topped $24.6 billion at nearly 37,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries -- with about 84 percent of those stores owned by franchisees. Daily sales per franchised store today? You do the math!

Eddy Goldberg
86,274 Reads 220 Shares

More Wings in Florida

Buffalo Wild Wings' largest franchisee opens newest location in Florida and now operates 65 restaurants across five states.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
3,279 Reads 35 Shares

US Beef Acquires 10 More Arby's Locations

Arby's Largest Franchisee Acquires 10 More Units in The West. US Beef Now Operates 360 Arby's Locations.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
6,799 Reads 1 Shares

C-Suite Profile: Karri Callahan, Julie Cary

Women play a critical and growing role in franchising. In our Annual Women's Issue, we profiled 28 "C-Suite Women." We share their profiles in this new weekly series.

Franchise Update
9,127 Reads 152 Shares

Cousins Subs Refranchising Adds Three More Multi-Unit Operators

Cousins Subs is expanding through an ongoing rebranding and growth initiative. The company has just announced three new multi-unit deals in Wisconsin and Illinois.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
13,984 Reads 1 Shares

Good News! - February 2017

So many good things are happening so quickly in franchising these days, it's hard to keep up (even for us!). So welcome to "Good News!" - our monthly roundup of franchise growth, finance, international expansion, milestones, and other positive news from franchisors large, medium, and emerging.

Eddy Goldberg
2,453 Reads

Multi-Brand Operator Adds Salata To Its Holdings

Dallas' Henry Investment Group adds Salata salad brand to its expanding franchise portfolio with a new deal to bring 20 units of the brand to the Atlanta area in the coming years.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
21,105 Reads 1 Shares

Challenge the Pros: Applying key Customer Data in your Franchise Recruiting and Development Efforts

When working with current and prospective franchisees, a great deal goes into recruiting and development efforts. A major obstacle for many franchisors is identifying the right franchisees who will help grow the brand.

Franchise Update
2,692 Reads 5 Shares

2016 Dominators

Multi-unit, multi-brand operators continue growing larger each year--a trend that continues to accelerate as these Dominators expand their portfolios through acquisitions, new units, refranchising offers, and scooping up successful units from retirees

Multi-Unit Franchisee
2,893 Reads 1,023 Shares

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Hail to the Beef!: Providing Career Opportunities Since 1969

As chair of Arby's largest franchisee, Jeff Davis has led his family-owned business to new heights. Davis is quick to say the restaurant business is in his DNA...

By Helen Bond
31,108 Reads

How Goddard Systems Is Using Data To Improve Franchise Development

Good data is a competitive advantage in today's marketplace. Jim DiRugeris, Goddard Systems' VP of franchise development, tells how his brand is incorporating data into its franchise recruitment process.

Jim DiRugeris
5,618 Reads 17 Shares

Words of Wisdom: Recruiting & Hiring

Jeff Davis' United States Beef Corporation (US Beef) operates 333 restaurants in 8 states across the country's midsection (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming), providing employment and career path opportunities for more than 7,000 employees. The company has an aggressive expansion plan to add 70 new restaurants by 2022 and remodel 123 existing stores along the way.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
17,825 Reads 1 Shares

Sibling Harmony: Leveraging Their Differences to Build a Company

In some ways, brothers Jesse and Charles Keyser, 39 and 35, are very different, and that's good. So are their three brands--Little Caesars, Sport Clips, and Oxi Fresh Carpet Cleaning--which also is good.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
16,665 Reads 4 Shares

Founded in Love: Necessity was the Grandmother of This Brand

Shelly Sun, co-founder of BrightStar Care, never planned to start a company. But in 2001, she and her husband, J.D. Sun, were struggling to find quality in-home care for his grandmother and discovered they weren't alone.

Kerry Pipes
4,109 Reads 1 Shares

Buffalo Wild Wings Zee Going Big

Largest Buffalo Wild Wings Franchisee Opens 63rd location in Bradenton, Florida.

18,691 Reads

Branching Out: Non-Traditional Franchisees Deliver The Goods

Ross Harried has found that a "small" strategy can serve up big business success. His Maui Wowi Ka'anapali Carts (Tiki huts on wheels) are 8 feet wide, 3 feet deep, 8 feet high and can squeeze in most anywhere...

Helen Bond
9,290 Reads 8 Shares

Good News - January 2016

So many good things are happening in franchising these days, it's hard to keep up (even for us!). So welcome to "Good News" - our monthly roundup of franchise growth, finance, international expansion, milestones, and other positive news from franchisors large, medium, and emerging.