March 1, 2010

Signature Reinvention

QSR magazine: Name any quick-serve giant, and a signature dish with a time-honored formula comes to mind. From McDonald’s Big Mac to Arby’s Roast Beef Sandwich, such historic menu items have defined brands for decades, catapulting both sales and brand awareness. Since its 1960 founding, Domino’s Pizza relied on a pizza formula that delivered millions

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Hair Salon Franchise Great Clips Enrolls Franchisees And Salon Managers At Great Clips University

Hair Salon Franchise Great Clips Enrolls Franchisees and Salon Managers at Great Clips University. FranchiseWorks.com: Great Clips, Inc., North America’s largest single-brand hair salon franchise, announced the opening of its Great Clips University (GCU) as an online learning center for franchisees and managers. “GCU is a virtual campus of courses that Great Clips hair salon

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Cottage Inn Pizza Is No Longer In Bay City Or Midland, Franchise Owner Files Lawsuit

MLive.com: The Cottage Inn Pizza chain no longer is operating in Bay City and Midland. And now Lester E. Myers — former owner of the two Cottage Inn franchises in Bay City and one in Midland — is party to a lawsuit filed against the Ann Arbor-based pizza franchise and its owners. The 19-page lawsuit

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Mompreneurs Band Together

While there are many networking opportunties for women, it was becoming painfully obvious to Sherry Nouraini that not many of them were mom friendly, reports The Orange County Register. She used to be part of a women’s networking group, but when she missed a few meetings to take care of her daughter, members told her

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Create Jobs, Get A Green Card

According to a story at Inc.com, Senators John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, introduced the Start-up Visa Act, which would open up the U.S. to immigrant entrepreneurs. If passed, the bill would grant foreigners U.S. visas if they can secure at least $100,000 from a sponsoring angel investor or at

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McDonald’s Tests Oatmeal

Want a side of oatmeal with that Egg McMuffin? AdAge reports that the McDonald’s Corp. has begun selling oatmeal at restaurants in Baltimore and Washington, as it looks to take a page from the playbook of rival Starbucks Corp. McDonald’s maple brown sugar oatmeal, which sells for $1.99, is topped with apples, raisins and cranberries

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