December 2011

Win $5,000 Through The National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Neighbor Award

IFA: Each year, the National Restaurant Association and American Express award $5,000 each to four restaurants through the Restaurant Neighbor Award. The award recognizes outstanding community service efforts among our nation’s restaurants. In addition to the grand prize, national winners receive an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to receive the award at a gala awards […]

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Grants Motel Re-Opens As Red Lion

Franchise Site

Bizjournals.com: Red Lion Hotels Corp. has re-flagged the former Best Western Inn & Suites in Grants. This is the third Red Lion property in New Mexico. The others are in Farmington and Gallup and all are owned by Positive Investments Inc., which also owns the Red Lion Hotel at Oakland International Airport in California. The

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Hungry Howie’s Raises $225000 For Breast Cancer Awareness

Franchise Site

SmartBrief.com: Hungry Howie’s Pizza & Subs, Inc. joined the fight against breast cancer again in 2011, raising $225,000 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, IncÂ®. This was the third year for the Love, Hope & Pizza campaign, which raised more than $250,000 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation in 2009 and 2010. For the campaign,

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What You Can Learn from Tickle Me Elmo

Ideas

Fifteen years ago, Tickle Me Elmo took over Christmas. TThe hottest toy of the 1996 holiday season caused shoppers to turn vicious, inspired a whole new kind of black market (the $35 dolls sold at a several-thousand-dollar markup) and sparked a salacious scandal. During Tickle Me Elmo’s epic reign, Tyco “the toy company behind the

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Main Street Connect

Profiles

Main Street Connect is a network of 52 community-based news websites. Inc. has up a video interview with the founders Jane Bryant Quinn and Carl Tucker. The video is below.

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A Search Engine for Sounds

Inventions

Business Week: In 2008, Jay LeBoeuf, 34, founded Imagine Research, a startup that on Nov. 9 unveiled its MediaMined software, which enables music and film producers to search, classify, and retrieve all manner of audio files. The software currently recognizes 400 distinct sounds, including instruments, voices, and noises like a dog’s bark and the crack

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So You Want To Open An Airport Concession?

Franchise Site

Food and Drink Digital: Have you ever walked through a busy airport and thought to yourself: â€œwouldnâ€™t this be a great place to open a franchise?â€ Youâ€™re not alone. With exposure to thousands of commuters and world travelers every day â€“ a captive audience that could probably use a decent lunch â€“ itâ€™s a very

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Kona Ice Creator Inventing New Products For Franchisees

Franchise Site

Bizjournals.com (blog): Tony Lamb is one of those entrepreneurs who never stops thinking. He developed his growing Kona Ice business of colorful shaved ice trucks in late 2007 and began franchising the concept in 2008. The business has been growing like crazy ever since, despite the recession. He sells the trucks for just under $100,000

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Inside Franchising’s New Normal

Franchise Site

AllBusiness: The Great Recession is now more than three years past, yet it’s still dominating the franchise landscape. Financing remains the biggest issue facing both franchisees and franchisors, creating a “new normal” that demands franchisors develop new strategies and cross frontiers, franchisees become more skilled and more qualified, and the industry work harder than ever

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Great American Cookies Franchise Presents $5,000 To The Yellow Ribbon Fund

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FranchiseKey: Great American CookiesÂ® announced recently that it has donated $5,000 to the Yellow Ribbon Fund. The check was presented to Jim Bugg, founder and chairman of the Yellow Ribbon Fund, during a special event in October. Founded in 2005, the Yellow Ribbon Fund provides assistance for injured service members and their families from across

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