October 29, 2009

Mom Lands Fairy Tale Job

Shore News Today: In January, with her youngest child approaching a year old, Jennifer Auer figured it was time to get back to work. She found the perfect opportunity through a friend of a friend — a Cape May County woman looking to sell her business, which uses costumed characters to bring alive make believe […]

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Breakfast-Making Machine

The Daily Mail reports that Japanese designers Yuri Suzuki and Masa Kimura built a real-life breakfast machine. The impressive device can prepare everything from omelettes to freshly-squeezed orange juice, and can even spread butter and jam onto toast. It will also grind coffee beans before brewing them. Photo by Platform 21.

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Usana Launches Probiotic Plus

NPI Center: USANA Health Sciences today launched Probiotic Plus, a new probiotic food supplement. Probiotics help replenish beneficial bacteria in the intestinal tract, which can aid good digestion and enhance immune function. This new product will be available in the United States, Canada, Australia/New Zealand and six other USANA markets. “We are thrilled to be

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Gloria Jean’s Wins International Award

ImagesFood.com: Australian owned global specialty coffee brand, Gloria Jean’s Coffees, has been awarded the Excellence in International Franchising Award at the Australian MYOB Franchising Awards in Perth. Gloria Jean’s Coffees has driven a successful strategy that has seen the business grow to 917 coffee houses worldwide and 37 master franchise agreements signed across 36 countries

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Extreme Pizza Partners With Ewordofmouth On Full System Emarketing Launch

Franchising.com: Extreme PizzaR, the leading purveyor of innovative pizzas, monster subs and salads, today announced a full-system launch with leading enterprise eMarketing solution provider, eWORDofMOUTHT. This new partnership allows Extreme Pizza to harness eWORDofMOUTH’s powerful, on-demand technology to cost effectively deploy both global and localized online referral and rewards campaigns across the entire chain. “Extreme

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Coupon Sparks Lawsuit Between Long John Silver’s, Captain D’s

Nation’s Restaurant News: A Long John Silver’s franchisee has filed a lawsuit against quick-service seafood competitor Captain D’s and its parent company, Sagittarius Restaurants, accusing them of deceptive trade practices. According to court papers filed this week in the Circuit Court for Knox County, Tenn., Captain D’s allegedly ran advertisements in July that offered to

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