‎Gather.com: The McDonald’s Happy Meal has become as staple in American culture. Parents and children oftentimes look forward to eating at the food chain to enjoy a Happy Meal together while playing with the toys inside. However, given the nation’s obesity epidemic, one city is looking to prevent encouraging children from eating McDonald’s Happy Meals […]
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SmartCompany.com.au: Retail food franchisors are best placed to win the perennial battle for top-class franchisees, with a new survey of prospective franchisees revealing a staggering 53% plan to go into food retailing franchises. The annual survey, conducted by mortgage broking franchise Mortgage Choice, also highlights a renewed sense of confidence among franchisees, with franchisors sure
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Franchiseindia.com: Franchise India in association with RE/MAX, is all set to host the multicity Business Opportunity Show (BOS) in south India beginning from 26th September to 1st October. The show will start in Mysore on 26th September, followed by Coimbatore on 28th September, Trichy on 30th September and Madurai on 1st October. BOS is one
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From the All That Is Old Is New Again Department comes this: The new state-of-the-art high-tech iPod Nano is being used as a wristwatch. According to The Arizona Republic, the compact portable music player, with its 1 1/2-inch-square screen, has a function that tells time. Not by using a digital readout but by creating a
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Mirfield Reporter: Heather Mills’s seaside vegan cafe in East Sussex has been closed for the winter. VBites has been open in Hove since July last year but announced it will be shutting down for the winter period “to focus on staff training, recipe development and VBites franchising”. Sir Paul McCartney’s ex-wife refurbished the former fish
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A landscape gardener has finally found relief for his back pain and it is all thanks to the prototype that Angus Macnab made for him reports Craven Herald And Pioneer. Vertibax is the brainchild of Angus, who himself suffered from back pain after a car accident in 2000. Following extensive medical treatment he was able
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Meet the “tempreneur.” Lynn Taylor at Womenentrepreneur.com has coined the term “tempreneur” for what she describes as an entrepreneur who also does temporary stints or project stints. I believe that the year 2010 is a paradigm shift to this entrepreneur/temporary worker, where the person is an entrepreneur in that she seeks her own business, but
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LJWorld.com: Shawna Swanson, 29, spent 10 years in Los Angeles, working in the retail sector for Gap and Disney, before asking her parents if she could come home and join the family enterprise. They said yes, with a caveat. “We told her she couldn’t displace anyone who already worked there, and she wouldn’t be getting
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Veronica Davis over at suite101.com says there are so many franchises to choose from today. With any and all possible products and services as potential business opportunities, choosing the right one can be difficult. Finding a field that is enjoyable and profitable is the ideal situation, so here are some tips on making sure this
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CNNMoney is reporting that one week after the Senate passed a $42 billion bill aimed at helping small businesses, the House voted Thursday to send the bill to President Obama’s desk. The measure, which passed the House in a 237 to 187 vote, is aimed at creating 500,000 jobs, according to a Senate summary of
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