Wicked Local: The group seeking to open a Dunkin’ Donuts franchise at the former Medfield Friendly’s location — the corner of Routes 109 and 27 — twice before tried and failed to open a coffee shop less than a block away, a Medfield Press search of public records has indicated. In 2002 and again in […]
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Huffington Post (blog): I financed several start-up restaurants when I was in the commercial mortgage banking business. All of the non-franchised restaurants failed within the first two years. So I studied the restaurant failures to better understand what it takes to underwrite them successfully. One restaurant failed after four months because the owner ran out
Entrepreneur (blog): When you’re researching franchise opportunities, sometimes the warning signs are obvious: shrinking systems, high turnover rates, unhappy franchisees. But it’s not always so cut and dried. Sometimes what looks like a green light at first glance might actually be a red light — or at least a yellow “slow down and ask more
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‎National Post: When you make the decision to purchase a franchise, it is an exciting time filled with equal parts optimism and anxiety. You may be focused on the long-term prosperity of your new business, but it is never too early to be thinking about the future. That is why, before signing a franchise agreement,
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Globe and Mail: When dealing with prospective franchisees, I always try to minimize their personal exposure so that if the venture fails “ma and pa†don’t lose their house, their farm, their RRSPs or their shirts. One spouse can take the risk and become the sole director and shareholder of the company that’s created to
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MarketWatch: Burger 21®, a new fast casual concept founded by the owners of The Melting Pot Restaurants, Inc., announced today that it has signed a franchise deal to open one restaurant in Voorhees, N.J. in spring 2013, expanding the beyond-the-better-burger concept’s footprint to the Northeast and its total units to 10. This new development is
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San Angelo Standard Times: There seems to be many well-known businesses opening in San Angelo over the past few years. Some are franchises we have seen in other areas of Texas. Potential small business owners who have always dreamed of being self-employed are sometimes unsure where to begin. Many have found buying a franchise provides
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Sydney Morning Herald: The consumer watchdog is urging would-be franchise buyers to watch out for inflated franchise-income claims. The warning follows complaints to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from franchise owners who say they were promised a minimum “guaranteed” income from their franchise but had earned little or nothing. Many complaints involved cleaning and
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Forbes: There’s a lot of hype in the world of the better quick-dining chains — or what the industry calls “fast casual†restaurants. Franchisors like to dazzle prospective franchise owners at “Discovery Day†events and promise that if they put their all into the system, they’ll be successful. But what matters to a franchise owner
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TheChronicleHerald.ca: A national discount retailer is suing a former Eastern Passage franchisee for alleged breach of contract for opening a similar dollar store nearby this spring. Great Canadian Dollar Store (1993) Ltd. filed a notice of action in Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Thursday against two numbered companies, 3179354 Nova Scotia Ltd. and 3247135 Nova
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