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Food Service Industry Making A Difference In Childhood Hunger - And Has The Stats To Prove It.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 5,667 Reads
Don't just tell your employees to be present or to provide genuine hospitality without telling them <how.> Make it black-and-white, and make it measurable.
  • John DiJulius
  • 22,972 Reads 22 Shares
Franchise Business Review Provides Data and Insight on Women in Franchising
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 14,373 Reads 29 Shares
In the fast food industry, taste will always rule. The past few years, however, have seen a shift in the way guests connect with brands, with elevated expectations regarding food quality, transparency, and authenticity.
  • By Bill Phelps
  • 6,360 Reads 1 Shares
Technology has become essential to the operation of franchised businesses around the world. This incudes not only operating the actual business, but managing the franchisor-franchisee relationship across country and continent boundaries.
  • William Edwards
  • 18,862 Reads 4 Shares
When Farouk Diab walks into one of his 18 Wienerschnitzel restaurants wearing a uniform, same as the other workers there, he's making a statement.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 11,695 Reads 2 Shares
At Jersey Mike's Subs, technology, marketing, operations, and strategy are so intertwined, "We joke back and forth about who's in charge of who, because there's so much overlap," says Rich Hope, the company's CMO.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 6,004 Reads 2 Shares
Eric Holm may own 31 successful Golden Corral restaurants in Florida and Georgia and run a $150 million business, but his thoughts never stray far from the poverty in which he grew up.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 9,265 Reads 1 Shares
On May 20, 2013, when strong tornadoes tore through Moore, Okla., Brandon Boozer and his family were lucky. Their home wasn't damaged, though some of their closest neighbors lost everything.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 7,348 Reads 3 Shares
It's October 1, 2015 and a line of hackers is standing outside your store waiting for you to turn on your computer system. Why? So they can steal your customers' credit card data and sell it to the highest bidder, of course.
  • Tom Epstein
  • 11,665 Reads 1 Shares
Shattering selling myths: the truth about top sales performers.
  • Steve Olson
  • 7,305 Reads 2 Shares
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You can say this about William Bruce: he's not afraid of change or embracing new challenges.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 10,695 Reads 83 Shares
Technology has become essential to the operation of franchised businesses around the world. This incudes not only operating the actual business, but managing the franchisor-franchisee relationship across country and continent boundaries.
  • William Edwards
  • 19,843 Reads
A case study of a multi-unit franchisee who introduces culture into his operations as an intangible that gets results.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 14,097 Reads
The way Steven Taylor and Chris Smith see it, operating multiple brands just makes their business better.
  • Helen Bond
  • 14,798 Reads 1 Shares
After working her way through college waiting tables, Tracy Balen told her mother at her graduation from Ohio State University, "I'll never work in another restaurant!"
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 10,895 Reads 1 Shares
Dickey's Barbecue Pit Inks 5-store deal with veteran Carl's Jr. operators in Washington state. The barbecue chain currently has 20 locations in the state with plans to open five more.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 6,461 Reads
7 keys to successful brand growth and scalability from Neal Dennis, COO at Hwy 55 Burgers, Shakes and Fries.
  • Neal Dennis
  • 5,604 Reads 4 Shares
Harsh Ghai's northern California-based multi-brand business may be rooted in food and family, but aggressive growth and smart development are the cornerstones of the company's success.
  • Helen Bond
  • 12,778 Reads
Carin Stutz, president of McAlister's Deli, considers herself a student of business. If her own success in the restaurant industry is any measure, she's a quick study.
  • Helen Bond
  • 8,283 Reads 1,021 Shares
When Domino's veteran Michael "Mike" Orcutt made the switch from corporate executive to franchisee he was, he admits, a "little nervous" about how the managers of the nine Atlanta pizza stores he purchased in 1990 would welcome their new boss.
  • Helen Bond
  • 11,954 Reads
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With technology continuing to rapidly evolve and change the face of both consumer marketing and franchise recruitment, planners for the 5th annual Franchise Consumer Marketing Conference built an educational curriculum to address marketing's hottest topics--with a focus on how technology is influencing marketing today.
  • Kerry Pipes & Eddy Goldberg
  • 9,246 Reads
Early in her career, Barbara Moran-Goodrich, CEO of the Moran Family of Brands, was fired from her job as controller at Moran Industries--by her own father, who had founded the company.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 4,959 Reads
West Coast convenience store and petroleum franchisee builds portfolio by signing development agreement for 20 Del Taco locations.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 5,937 Reads
Jeff Sinelli likes to be called CVO--as in chief vibe officer. It may seem slightly irreverent, but the founder and CEO of Which Wich is not your ordinary leader.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 8,461 Reads 30 Shares
California area developer brings Canada's unique Smoke's Poutinerie brand to Hollywood and beyond.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 7,944 Reads
What franchisees want from corporate field support is pretty straightforward. Basic expectations include great products, marketing and brand support, ongoing training, site selection, purchasing power for goods and services, and participation in product and program testing.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 10,258 Reads 2 Shares
The data breach reported by Jimmy John's last September affected just over 10 percent of the company's locations, but the bad press and customer fallout affected the entire chain.
  • Rick Dakin
  • 4,027 Reads 1 Shares
Longtime friends team up to offer three franchise food brands in Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C.
  • franchise, franchising, multi unit franchising, franchise update, mult-unit franchisee
  • 11,348 Reads 1 Shares
Captain D's joins forces with Share Our Strength's Dine Out for No Kid Hungry campaign to help to put an end to childhood hunger in America.
  • 5,417 Reads
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