msnbc.com: In the last decade, while other franchise chains have bounced in and out of the Top 10 like corn in an air popper, Subway has topped the Franchise 500® list nine out of 10 years. Considering the ups and downs of the economy, not to mention the rapidly changing American palate, it’s astounding that […]
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The Tennessean: Question: I know the weather is turning cold, but the other night I wanted to treat the kids to ice cream and was disappointed to find Ritter’s Frozen Custard on Old Fort Parkway closed. What happened? Answer: The business closed several months ago for a number of reasons, according to Gary Occhiogrosso, chief
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Franchising.com: The party’s back on at Denny’s where consumers are invited to celebrate birthdays with a free Original Grand Slam(R) meal at restaurants nationwide. The Grand Slam(R) is Denny’s most popular menu item and the company is bringing back an old tradition of offering a free entrée on birthdays. Denny’s birthday offer allows mothers and
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The story of Duke Nukem Forever is an important lesson for starting a business. It is more important to start, than to get everything absolutely perfect. If you try to plan out everything in advance, you’ll never begin. If you look at almost any successful business, it is the exception that looks 100% like it
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Seattle Times: Starbucks is gathering strength behind its push for more franchisees for Seattle’s Best Coffee. High-profile executive Michelle Gass, who was put in charge of the brand last fall, recently hired a vice president of franchise business development. John Wuycheck had been a vice president at KLMM’s Hydration Technologies and at Kahala Franchise Corp.,
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Newsweek has put together a list of 10 predictions for the tech sector in 2010. 10. Google Faces Antitrust Suit 9. Microsoft Pushes Out Steve Ballmer 8. Twitter Use Flatlines 7. Facebook Goes Public 6. Your Phone Replaces Your Wallet 5. Movie Downloads Stall Blu-ray 4. Starbucks Will Stalk You 3. Malware Disrupts Facebook 2.
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The Franchise Magazine: Franchisor Jani-King (GB) is reporting a boom year for the contract cleaning sector, with a reported growth in new business to £4.5 million in 2009. The company is now targeting £7 million in new business totals for 2010. All business is distributed between its franchise owners, who deliver its service through management
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ReadWriteWeb are chilled and saddened by the ghosts of the past year – the apps that should have been, the startups that failed to launch, the brilliant ideas that were throttled, the great minds that were fired, the tech heroes that committed tragic gaffes. But some failures were so monumental that they require specific enumeration
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According to The New York Times, in “Endpaper: Patents”, creations patented in 2009 are sorted and classified by labels like “When Life Isn’t Exciting Enough,” “Reinventing the Wheel,” and “Department of Questionable Judgment.” Inventions include a bacon comb, an inflatable Christmas tree, water-draining shoes and a retractable chopstick. Maybe you’ve had an idea for an
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Newsweek has put together a list of ten things that didn’t exist ten years ago, that are indispensable now. 10. Online Airline Check-In 9. Free Credit Reports 8. Red Bull 7. TMZ (celebrity Web site) 6. Chipotle 5. Gardasil (human papillomavirus vaccine) 4. Digital Video Recorder 3. iTunes 2. YouTube 1. Wikipedia Photo by mai05.
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