QSR magazine: Red Mango. Pinkberry. Yogen Fruz. Menchie’s. FreshBerry. The frozen yogurt trend exploding across the country comes in many forms, as upstarts capitalize on the healthy-eating movement with a frozen treat that’s low in calories and rich in nutrients. With so many competitors spreading quickly across the country, one frozen yogurt stalwart, TCBY, showed […]
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StockHouse.com: Hooters of America, Inc. and Colliers International jointly announced today that the iconic restaurant company is undertaking an ambitious worldwide expansion, with plans to increase its location count by at least 15 – 20 percent annually over the next several years. The high profile chain currently has more than 455 locations worldwide with restaurants
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Rediff: World’s largest ice-cream chain, Baskin Robbins, is planning to enter tier II and tier III cities in India as a part of its expansion plans. Graviss Foods, the master franchisee for Baskin Robbins ice creams in India, said that the company plans to launch new products, such as sticks and cones, targeting middle-class customers.
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dBusinessNews Cincinnati: As the economy remains uncertain, baby-boomer small business owners, ages 46 to 64, across North America are delaying the process of selling their business, despite national statistics showing otherwise. A recent study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers reported that one out of two small to large businesses will change hands between 2006 and 2016. However, a
PR Newswire: ComCam International, Inc. announced today that it has executed a joint venture agreement with The School of Franchising in Kansas City, Kansas to offer a turnkey franchise management system as a monthly service to the restaurant industry. The joint venture expects to deploy ComCam’s patented video-based Enterprise Sensor Management (ESM) system to 3,000
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Asbury Park Press: Entrepreneur Peter LaColla has always had a passion for satisfying people’s needs in ways that beat the competition for convenience. And for many years now, he and his partner, Dan McCabe, have been franchising convenience stores in malls. Under the “Street Corner’ brand, their storefronts and kiosks offer candy, gum, cigarettes, lottery
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NASDAQ: McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) plans to upgrade hundreds of its restaurants inside Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) locations to boost sales and profits for a group of stores that lag the larger fleet. McDonald’s proposal would add fruit smoothies and frappes–an icy, coffee drink–to these stores, but not the broader line of McCafe drinks introduced last
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According to Chicago Business, for most people, running just one business is challenge enough. But others find they’re capable of keeping multiple enterprises humming at the same time. Even so, experienced “multipreneurs” can stumble. Advice from local veterans: DON’T: Hang on to a business when it’s clearly failing, says Jay Goltz, founder and owner of
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Columbus Dispatch: Quiznos used to be everyone’s new favorite sub shop — that kept going out of business. At least two Quiznos in Columbus have closed in the past year. It isn’t happening just here. About 1,000 Quiznos nationwide closed between 2007 and 2009. After a rocky couple of years, Quiznos is trying to reboot,
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Kansas City Business Journal: Mr. Goodcents Subs & Pasta, a De Soto-based sandwich shop chain, has picked former Applebee’s International Inc. CEO Dave Goebel as its new leader. Goebel replaces founder Joe Bisogno in the top spot, and Bisogno will become the company’s chairman. Both chains have been based in the Kansas City area. Here’s
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