According to The Los Angeles Times sometime in the next two weeks, a converted fishing boat called the Sikuk is due to sail from St. John’s, in Canada’s Newfoundland province, bound for a fjord in Greenland and a rendezvous with an iceberg. Where most vessels give icebergs a wide berth, the Sikuk intends to sidle […]
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According to a story in USA Today, Danny Kennedy and Andrew Birch talked about all the valuable free data Microsoft and Google float out on the Internet. In particular, they wondered if they could tap into the tech giants’ mapping services to remotely design rooftop solar energy systems using satellite images and aerial photos. Turns
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Franchising.net.au: The saga of the franchisor company Allied Brands continues, with news the administrators are requesting a delay to the second creditors meeting until late January 2011. Allied Brands, which lost the licence for the ice cream brand BaskinRobbins after going into voluntary administration and has its other key brand Cookie Man in liquidation, has
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WalesOnline: Racy American chain Hooters opens its first restaurant in Wales tomorrow. Hooters Cardiff has hired 56 local girls aged 18 to 27 – including four mums – to squeeze into its famously skimpy uniforms. Bosses say they were overwhelmed with more than 300 applications from women hoping to be among the first Welsh Hooters
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Press-Enterprise: The Sizzler restaurant off Interstate 215 in Murrieta doesn’t look like your typical Sizzler, but it will soon. The restaurant reopened last week after a four-month remodel, during which it was gutted and reconstructed as a prototype for the future look of the Culver City-based restaurant chain. “It’s not like a Sizzler that anyone’s
Gainesville Sun: Gainesville dessert businesses are on the move with Red Mango taking over the two Yogaberry locations, and Yum Cupcakery moving downtown and changing its name to Sarkara Sweets. Red Mango co-owner Terri Keogh said the local Yogaberry franchisee walked into their 34th Street location to see if they would take over his leases.
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San Francisco Chronicle: Showhomes, a real estate staging company with franchises throughout the United States, announces the opening of its newest operation, Showhomes of Folsom Lake, serving Sacramento Interstate 80 East from Roseville to Auburn/Grass Valley and 50 East corridors from Folsom to include all of El Dorado County. Owner/Franchisee Bob Kohlruss is excited to
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The Guardian: While most fellow graduates are fretting over job advertisements and application forms, and coming to terms with the brutal reality of months – if not years – of unemployment, Emma Luxton spends her days leaping around playing “musical bumps and statues” with toddlers in church halls and in front of nursery classes. Just
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Franchising.com: Pizza Inn, Inc. has appointed Kendra Shier to the position of Vice President of Marketing. A restaurant and marketing veteran with more than 20 years of industry experience, she joins Pizza Inn’s executive team at a critical time in the brand’s reinvention and expansion. “We’re very excited to name Kendra to this post as
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AFP: A Burger King restaurant manager and staff member have been sacked after a customer found the expression “Fxxx You” on the top of his meal receipt, the US chain said Friday. The foul-mouthed exhortation appeared twice, in computer type, at the top of the receipt for a Double Whopper with cheese, onion rings and
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