Pizza Marketplace: Let’s Pizza, a vending machine that creates pizzas from scratch in 2.5 minutes, is about to plant a flag in U.S. soil. The machine was created by Italian Claudio Torghel and is distributed by A1 Concepts, based out of The Netherlands. The machine’s presence has been growing throughout Europe since its launch about […]
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‎FranchiseKey.com: McDonald’s UK announced recently that it has launched a new interactive website, What Makes McDonald’s?, to enable customers to see how its business works – from where McDonald’s food comes from to how it first became involved in the Olympic Games. According to the information provided, this is the latest step in McDonald’s ongoing
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Blue MauMau: Cheryl Bachelder, chief executive officer of AFC Enterprises Inc, holding company for Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, speaks to Blue MauMau about the art of leading. A big believer in measuring, Bachelder actually monitors the bottom line of Popeyes franchises — 2,044 restaurants altogether, 40 of which are company-owned. That’s because she believes the key
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‎Franchise India: PRIME Housewares, an Indian housewares brand has teamed up with Francorp India, part of Franchise India.Francorp will chart out the franchise strategy for PRIME Housewares & its associates by developing a comprehensive strategy to expand its reach in major cities across India via franchise model. In the initial phase the brand will focus
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Otago Daily Times: When Julie Clarke went into business five years ago, she hit the ground running. Within a couple of weeks of seeing an advertisement in the newspaper for a Baby On The Move franchise, she had her own business in Dunedin. Ms Clarke had previously been in the police force, where she was
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SmartCompany.com.au: The most comprehensive survey of Australian franchisees ever undertaken has uncovered exactly which franchisees are the most financially successful. The survey of over 1,800 Australian franchisees was conducted by business psychologists at The Franchise Relationships Institute. Each franchisee completed a 210-item questionnaire on their background, work patterns, attitudes and satisfaction with the business. Performance
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Lemon is a new mobile phone app that is designed to capture images of the credit, loyalty and membership cards in your wallet so that you can empty the thing out and leave them safely at home. Cofounder Wences Casares tells Fast Company that the app is useful in a number of situations—including, say, while
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Nation’s Restaurant News: Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar found itself in a tough situation last week when a franchisee group’s multiplatform digital ad campaign ran at cross-purposes with corporate branding plans. The tongue-in-cheek “Life Is Better Shared†campaign, created for Lexingington, Ky.-based franchisee group Thomas & King, drew on Applebee’s corporate’s “Girls’ Night Out†slogan.
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MarketWatch: U-Swirl, Inc., parent to U-SWIRL International, Inc., the owner and franchisor of U-SWIRL Frozen Yogurt® cafes, announced today that the franchise has expanded to Houston, Texas. The Palmer family, area developer for Houston, Texas, has signed a lease for their first of a minimum of ten U-Swirl Frozen Yogurt Cafes to be opened in
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Inventors exist all over the world. Africa.com has compiled a list of inventors found within the country. This is just the first half of many innovative people featured. Let us first visit Cameroon, where a group of 10-year old kids crafted a remote-controlled “car” from recycled products such as old flip-flops, pieces of wood, rubber,
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