January 11, 2010

“Do You Deliver?” Is Your Equity On The Delivery Menu?

Lexology: Delivery of food, goods or services to customer locations is an integral part of the service concept underpinning many hospitality and franchised businesses. Some purveyors have abandoned on-premise service formats in favor of carry-out and delivery-base store fronts. But how far should the system owner go to set standards for delivery operations? An Oregon

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Wingstop Announces Management Promotions, Hires

Chain Leader: In addition to celebrating 25 consecutive quarters of positive comp store sales, opening its first international restaurant in Mexico City and becoming the Official Wings of the Dallas Cowboys, Wingstop expanded its management team in 2009 through promotions and new hires. * Andy Howard was promoted from executive vice president marketing, purchasing, research

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Restaurant Franchise Margaritas, Home Of The World’s Best Margarita Announces Franchise Offering

FranchiseWorks.com: Known as the coolest place in town throughout New England for almost 24 years, Margaritas Mexican Restaurant – for the first time – is giving entrepreneurs an opportunity to serve up the world’s best margarita. In a landmark move for the popular regional Mexican restaurant chain with 19 locations, company executives announced an expansion

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Vintage Ads

Do you enjoy looking at vintage ads for inspiration? Feast your eyes on this: Vintage Ad Browser. The search function is especially fun. I’m not old enough to remember when marketers used babies in cigarette advertising, but now I can see them.

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While You Were Out Form

The “While You Were Out” form is a simple way to communicate with your local businesses. It gives you a polite way of letting a business know that you’d would have spent money in their establishment, but because they weren’t open, you couldn’t. I’m planning to use these in my community. There are four coffee

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