WTHR: The popular fast-food chain with a Cajun flair is now out of business in Indianapolis. Five Popeye’s Chicken and Biscuits restaurants have shut down. All of them were operated by local franchisee Will Pace. The restaurants were located on West 38th street, East 38th Street, two locations on Washington and another on 46th Street. […]
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‎Sydney Morning Herald: Franchises are enjoying the fruits of an improving economy, having reported double-digit increases in revenue and profits and expect the same this financial year. The findings are contained in the PwC Private Clients Franchise Sector Indicator, released this morning. The survey found franchisors, those who sell the right to distribute or sell
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Bizjournals.com: The economy has taken a bite out of the Mr. Food No-Fuss Meals store concept. While franchisees are still open in Coconut Creek, Melbourne and Buffalo, N.Y., the Fort Lauderdale location, at 5975 N. Federal Highway, is planning to close Oct. 2. The Fort Lauderdale franchisee sent an e-mail to customers that said: “Dear
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‎Swindon Advertiser: A takeaway pizza delivery business has been given permission to extend its opening hours when it moves to larger premises in Old Town, despite objections from neighbours, councillors and the police. Domino’s Pizza wanted to be able to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, when it moves to new premises
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SmartCompany.com.au: Mystery surrounds the reasons for a dispute between beleaguered franchise brands manager Allied Brands and its global franchisor Dunkin Brands over Allied’s master franchise agreement for the Baskin & Robins chain. Allied Brands asked the Australian Securities Exchange late on Friday to suspend its shares from trade until the start of Tuesday, September 14,
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Newswise: Lack of flexibility that cuts into family balance is major factor why relatively few women own quick service food franchises. As a consumer insights analyst for Oklahoma City-based Sonic Corp., the nation’s largest chain of drive-in restaurants, Kim Mathe looked at the number of women-owned quick service restaurant franchises and was surprised there were
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Times LIVE: Rumours that Famous Brands is head-hunting staff from Nando’s to build its flame-grilled peri-peri chicken franchise Giramundo is “absolute rubbish”, Kevin Hedderwick, chief executive of Famous Brands, said this week. “It is absolutely inaccurate. We have structures in place that are working on Giramundo; they are all staff who were advanced from within,”
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TIME: I’ve been to this movie a few times.” Such was the response of one prominent Burger King franchisee, when asked for his reaction to the $4 billion leveraged buyout that will take the country’s No. 2 hamburger chain private for the second time in less than 10 years. In 2002, investment firms TPG Capital,
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Unhappy Franchisee: In 2009, Entrepreneur magazine listed Liberty Tax Service as the #3 franchise, surpassed only by Subway at #1 and McDonald’s at #2. It was quite a leap, since Liberty Tax Service had never made the top 10 (Subway had been named #1 16 times, McDonald’s 8 times). Previously, Liberty Tax Service franchise had
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Franchisee.org: Do not sign a franchise agreement until you get these provisions changed! Gag Rules. Some franchise agreements now prohibit franchisees from discussing any aspect of their franchise experience with anyone outside the system. This defeats the FTC rule and other state disclosure laws which require lists of terminated franchisees to be provided to prospective
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