May 6, 2009

California Pizza Kitchen Opens First Restaurant In Guadalajara, Mexico

Franchise Site

Franchising.com: California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. (CPK), home of the Original BBQ Chicken Pizza and other innovative hearth-baked pizzas, made-to-order pastas, creative salads, appetizers, soups, sandwiches and desserts, opened its sixth location in Mexico today. The new restaurant, another opened by CPK franchise partner Grupo Calpik, S.A. de C.V., is the first to open in Guadalajara. […]

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Escape Your Cubicle Job

Ideas

photo credit: mark sebastian Are you getting tired of your same old 9 to 5 job, tired of climbing and climbing up that ladder but never actually getting where you want to be after all your hard work? Many people other than yourself feel this same way, and some of them have decided to quit

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Drinking Pee?

Inventions

photo credit: *L*u*z*a* return to nature NASA has had a pee cycling concept for years now, however, it has yet to make it to the consumers shelves for general sale as the price tag on their model is $250,000. A newer model has  recently been developed by Leonardo Manavella to turn your pee into drinkable water.

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Local Chain Goes National

Franchise Site

Gwinnett Business Journal: When Bruce Arnett, Sr. opened his first car wash on Pleasant Hill Road in 1987, his immediate plan was to build a good reputation for Carnett’s Car Washes and spread the concept around Gwinnett and Metro Atlanta. Now he’s thinking even bigger. Carnett’s announced earlier this year that the family-run car wash

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Scarce Venture Capital

Ideas

photo credit: SvenDowideit Small Business Labs recently posted an article on obtaining venture capital. VC has been a long time funding option for businesses all over. However, with the recent economy, funding in all areas is becoming scarce for businesses including that of venture capital. A surprising 90% of businesses that have already been funded are

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SOHO Office Reopens

Franchise Site

Rome News Tribune: SOHO Office is open again in the Riverbend shopping center. Formerly known as SOHO Hero, the name on the new sign should make clearer its business and perhaps attract more walk-up traffic, local franchisee Tom McNally said. “The concept is still the same,” McNally said. “We’re trying to get people to realize

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It's A $ellers Market

News

NWAnews.com: Until November 2007 Janet Miller was an administrative assistant, a career she had begun 20 years earlier. That career ended when she was let go by her employer. “From that point, I decided that I didn’t want to go back into the corporate world,” says Miller, 37, of Conway. “I’ve always wanted to be

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