March 8, 2010

To Keep Guests, Fast Food Loses The Fiberglass Decor

Franchise Site

Brandweek Magazine: With its slate floors and subdued lighting, Arne Jacobsen-inspired egg-chairs and printed wall panels by French architect Philippe Avanzi, a certain lunch spot in Manhattan’s uber-hip Chelsea district fits right in with the nearby boutiques and art galleries. Less predictable is the place’s name: McDonald’s. Late last year, the franchisee Paul Hendel became […]

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Applebee’s Flapjack Fundraiser To Support Education Of Local Youth

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MyNC.com: The Apple Gold Group, franchisee of Applebee’s restaurants in North Carolina, Oklahoma and Arkansas, is proud to partner with Wake Forest Kiwanis Club to host a Flapjack Fundraiser on Saturday, March 13, 2010. All proceeds raised will go toward purchasing dictionaries for Wake County 3rd grade students. “Applebee’s continues to be an active leader

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25 New Pizza Jobs

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Weston & Somerset Mercury: Twenty-five new jobs will be created when one of Britain’s biggest pizza chains opens its second Weston store next month. Domino’s Pizza, which already has one base in the Boulevard, will be launching a second premises in Locking Castle’s Bransby Way in April. And David Hall, the franchisee of the new

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Margaritas Chain Offering Franchises

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Foster’s Daily Democrat: The Portsmouth-based Margaritas Mexican Restaurant chain is launching a franchising program that the firm hopes will spread its fajitas and eponymous cocktails across the Eastern Seaboard over the next decade. Margaritas’ current roster of 19 restaurants in New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut and Massachusetts are all corporate-owned. But “in times like this, companies

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Cold Stone To Open Co-Branded Store At Florida Mall

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Bizjournals.com: The local franchisee of five Cold Stone Creamery stores in Central Florida plans to relocate and upgrade its existing store on Sand Lake Road into the Florida Mall. Winter Garden-based Dattani Management Corp. plans to open a 720-square-foot Cold Stone Creamery/Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory by mid-April in the former Mrs. Fields location between Sears

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Trailers Are Optional

Inventions

Approximately 2 years ago Brian Ohnemus create a boat rack that would carry his boat so he could still pull his camper. The idea worked so well that he decided to turn it into a business, reports the Quincy Herald Whig. “While getting all the gear ready for a weekend family camping trip, I realized

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Stop And Smell The Story

MLM Site

NewsObserver.com: Susan Crisp had always done some part-time direct-selling, but in June 2009, she’d sworn off it. Still, when her daughter took her to a meeting for LMS fragrance company, sellers of d’essence fragrances, Crisp was impressed, and she joined up. And then she walked away, deciding to stick to her pledge to leave that

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The Artful Entrepreneur

Ideas

Anthony Ghattas has the life that many dream about; great wine, beautiful art, and friends in high places, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. In only six years, this serial entrepreneur has managed to build up a successful lifestyle brand United Lifestyle Group – including two galleries in Perth and Sydney and a burgeoning wine group

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