Orlando Business Journal: A Michigan franchisee bought 16 Taco Bell restaurants in Central Florida with plans to start renovating older stores and adding new ones here in the next 18 months. Holland, Mich.-based Bravo Food Group LLC, a franchisee of four Brevard County Taco Bells since 2009, bought 16 more in Orange, Seminole and Volusia […]
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Columbus Business First: Before Max & Erma’s gets bigger, it’s going to get smaller. As many as 10 restaurant closings and a corporate office consolidation are among the first tasks facing Denver-based American Blue Ribbon Holdings LLC, which is expected to close its $28 million purchase of the Columbus-based chain Aug. 31. American Blue Ribbon
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Investorplace.com: The first of a proposed 14 new Dominican Republic Krispy Kreme doughnut shops opened its doors in Santo Domingo on Tuesday. For investors, this KKD stock move may be a sign not only of global expansion but of a perhaps slow and marked return to the former glory days at Krispy Kreme. Krispy Kreme
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The Guardian: It wasn’t having oral sex with an employee in front of a female journalist that now threatens to undo Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel. Nor was it simulating oral sex with another female member of staff whom he had ordered to pretend to masturbate in front of him. The 41-year-old’s professional and
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Sauk Prairie Eagle: When Middleton’s Blue Spoon Café quietly opened for the last time August 22, The Blue Spoon Café in downtown Prairie du Sac became truly one of a kind. Culver Franchising System Inc. owned both Blue Spoon Cafes, and its president Phil Keiser said there are no plans to shutter the Prairie du
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3News NZ: The fat was in the fire when trade unionists turned up at an Auckland Burger Fuel outlet to support a sacked employee. Joanne Bartlett was fired on the 89th day of her 90-day probationary period. “They said they just didn’t consider me to be someone who would be in the fast food industry
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Food Safety News: A second victim of the widespread Salmonella outbreak linked to Taco Bell restaurants filed a lawsuit against the restaurant chain Monday. The plaintiff in the lawsuit is Tammy Hale, a Scioto County, Ohio resident who became ill with a Salmonella Hartford infection after eating at a Taco Bell in Wheelersburg, Ohio in
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New York Daily News: KFC franchisees aren’t exactly crowing over the chicken giant’s decision to emphasize grilled rather than fried poultry. In fact, some feel that this health-conscious strategy is confusing to the customer and bad for the brand, according to Bloomberg Business Week. The chain, which is owned by Yum! Brands, may be aiming
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msnbc.com: Marilynn Pankratz fondly recalls the time Colonel Sanders donned an apron at her Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant and taught the staff how to fry chicken according to his Original Recipe. Ask her if KFC’s current president, Roger Eaton, would do the same, and she’s off: “Roger Eaton and his company don’t give a rat’s
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Tbo.com: Bill Caldwell described it as “one of the saddest things I’ve ever had to do.” Caldwell, the Woody’s BBQ franchisee, was talking about the decision he made to close the Sebring store on U.S. 27. The restaurant had been in business for 15 years. “It was an awful decision to have to make,” Caldwell
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