In just a few months, incandescent light bulbs will be illegal to purchase in the United States. Many people have no idea that most traditional light bulbs are about to disappear. For those in the know, it’s time to start hoarding: O’Neill keeps her stash under her basement stairs and figures she’s got a three-year […]
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QSRMagazine: Del Taco has a new logo and is testing a new restaurant prototype. After months of research, both are making their first appearance together at new locations in Los Angeles and Irvine, California, as well as Irving and McKinney, Texas. The company’s new logo will be phased in through marketing and advertising efforts beginning
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In 1995, John Sylvan was drinking 30 to 40 cups of coffee per day. Not just because he loved the stuff, but because he and his business partner, Peter Dragone, were working on a new kind of coffee maker. They named their invention “Keurig,” a word meaning excellence that Sylvan pulled from a Danish-English dictionary.
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Economic Times: In low-slung suburban strip malls, nestled between fast-food restaurants and auto supply stores, hair salons are sprouting like mushrooms. The Census Bureau recently noted their jump in an otherwise glum report about mom-and-pop businesses, stating that the number of hairdressers and barbers and the shops they work in grew by about 8% from
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Inside NoVA: Former Marine Corps Sgt. Steve Brevitz recently opened the doors to his Little Caesars Pizza restaurant at 9020 Mathis Ave., Manassas. “It has been a dream of mine to open my own business for a long time, and now I am finally living my dream,†Brevitz said. “I researched several franchise opportunities and
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Greater Lansing Business Monthly: The cost to open a BIGGBY COFFEE franchise is now the lowest in the company’s history following the recent development of a new store footprint; cutting store build-out and start-up by nearly 40 percent. The East Lansing-based gourmet coffee company began franchising in 1999 and currently has 133 locations open, or
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Patch.com: Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt is coming to Richmond Heights, and with it comes a franchise model worth investigating. The store will be located at 6674 Clayton Rd. The company began in San Francisco with two investors dedicated to making a quality frozen yogurt, the company’s website states. In 2009, Travis Reese, the current chief
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A Pennsylvania man, with no pest control experience has invented his own trap to kill the stink bugs that have inundated his home. By his count, he’s killed 17,000 stink bugs in the last year. It used a combination of light, which attracts stink bugs, and a fruit-and-vegetable mixture that acts as a lure. He
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Seeking Alpha: This weekend, in the midst of the most monumental credit downgrade in history, I found myself eating at a Texas Roadhouse Restaurant (TXRH) for the first time. It was a Saturday night in the middle of nowhere, New Jersey, and the place was packed. Eating there led me to look into the stock
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Science has shown that petting a dog releases a hormone called oxytocin in both the dog and the petter, which makes everyone feel better. Oxytocin, called the “love hormone”, is the naturally occurring chemical in the body responsible for bonding between mother and baby in humans. Do you know what feels better than just feeling
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