Wall Street Journal: A lot of franchise buyers are looking to get into the driver’s seat. Literally. Over the past several years, there’s been a rising interest in mobile franchises, whose owners work out of a van, truck or trailer, driving around their territories to meet customers in their homes or elsewhere. These businesses—which offer […]
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The Ashburton Guardian: From potentially thousands of franchise business owners around New Zealand, Ashburton café owner Nigel Heney has been named cream of the crop. At the annual Westpac Franchise Awards in Auckland at the weekend, Mr Heney won the top award for the food and beverage franchisee of the year for the second time
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Franchising.com: The North Carolina Junior Tour provides affordable, nationally ranked junior golf tournaments to young men and women. Bojangle’s regional franchisee, Tri-Arc Food Systems, has been announced as the newest sponsor of the NC Junior Tour and Junior Golf Foundation. Their sponsorship helps keep entry fees low and nationally ranked junior golf tournaments accessible to
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Mondaq News Alerts: Courts and administrative tribunals are generally sensitive to the vulnerability of employees in employment relationships due to the often unequal bargaining power between employers and most employees. Various corporate structures, including franchise arrangements, that may be recognized for commercial law purposes, may not be recognized for employment law purposes, particularly if doing
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The Zimbabwe Standard: My healthy scepticism about most franchised chain restaurants is fairly well-known to regular readers. But possibly because St Elmo’s, at the Avondale Shopping Centre, is a Zimbabwean one-off, it’s never irritated me like some of the other multi-national operations have done occasionally. I drove to Avondale on a steaming hot, humid Wednesday
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Knutsford Guardian: A musical businesswoman who helps youngsters get into the swing of things has won a top award that recognises working mums. Frances Donkin, who runs Rhythm Time music classes for youngsters in Knutsford, has won Franchisee of the Year at the mumandworking 2011 awards in Brighton. The awards, hosted by X Factor’s Alexandra
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Franchising.net.au: Melbourne based Craig Birchall has just opened his latest Domino’s Pizza venue in the CBD bringing his tally of pizza outlets to eight. The Flinders Street store was an opportunity too good to miss, Birchall said. “I could instantly see the potential for the business in such a great location. We were already servicing
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STLtoday.com: The Genghis Grill in Ellisville was named Franchisee of The Year by the national Genghis Grill corporate executive team in Dallas recently. The award is given annually to the franchisee that has displayed positive year-over-year sales growth, outstanding dining service, improved operations, perfect mystery shopper experience, high internal audit scores and positive customer service
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RestaurantNews.com: Freebirds World Burrito will open a new restaurant at 7547B South Olympia Ave. West Tulsa, OK 74132 on Thursday, November 17, 2011. To celebrate, Freebirds will give the first 25 guests in line free burritos for a year! In the days leading up to the opening, Freebirds and its charitable arm, World Works will
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SmartCompany.com.au: Forget what you thought about Generation Y being the next big group of potential franchisees, it appears that baby boomers are driving growth in franchisee numbers, according to an analysis of more than a decade of franchising research. A comparison by the Franchise Advisory Centre of Franchising Australia Survey results from 1998 to 2010
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