Franchise Articles

Franchise Washington Township eatery is top (hot) dog

"We wanted to do something different," said Val Miller, who is a co-owner of the Washington Township franchise alongside her husband Lance. "It's something my husband and I started talking about eight years ago." · read more

Carl's Jr.(R) Opens First Restaurant in Shanghai, China

Carl's Jr Restaurants today announced the opening of its first Carl's Jr.® restaurant in Shanghai, China. This marks the first of more than 100 Carl's Jr. units planned in the municipalities of Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu over the next eight years. In China, Carl's Jr. is operated by Star Food F&B Management Co. Ltd., a joint venture between SGX-listed BreadTalk Group Limited, a leading lifestyle food and beverage group, and Aspac F&B International Pte Ltd, the current Carl's Jr. franchisee in Singapore and Malaysia. · read more

Pepperoni pizza with a side of sustainability

Pizza Fusion is a neat, new restaurant on the corner of Ocean Park Boulevard and 29th Street that serves up more than just pies of all kinds. This Earth-friendly restaurant chain dedicated to sustainability tries to educate its customers about the values of buying organic. · read more

Sonic restaurant opens in Lake Zurich

"We're delighted to have the Sonic in town," Village President Suzanne Branding said. "It's been vacant for a few years, and once (Sonic) got going, they really got going." The site has been vacant for several years, since the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise closed. · read more

Wahoo's Fish Taco said it plans to add 100 franchise locations by 2014, including at least 15 in Cal

Wahoo's is based in Santa Ana and its restaurants are heavily concentrated in Orange County. It has locations in Encinitas, La Jolla and Rancho Bernardo. The chain said it tapped Tom Orbe, who owns a franchised Wahoo's in Temecula, as the vice president of the new franchise program. Wahoo's said it hopes to sign five franchisees in California initially and an additional 10 by the end of the year. · read more

Family reopens local Steak-Out

"With Steak-Out, it's a little unique; it's more for a person looking for a complete meal," he said. "It's a hot meal delivered to your door. We cook everything to order. Everything is fresh." Steak-Out started in Huntsville about 23 years ago and has branched out into more than 30 franchises, Tim Bridges said. The Bridges loved eating at the restaurant. · read more

BCCI welcomes Subway franchise

IN A statement issued yesterday, the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) noted that it does not object to the recent application made for the Subway franchise to enter the local market. · read more

Chicken vs. All That Is Good and Decent

It soon became apparent that KFC had underestimated what demand it would stimulate by offering free food. Franchises ran out, and the chain announced that it was suspending the deal. Plus, someone had hacked the Internet and printed off hundreds of free lunch coupons. · read more

Tasty winners in tough times

The most dramatic successes have come from Kiwi-owned franchise stores for global chains like Subway, Domino's Pizza and Kiwi-owned Hell Pizza. · read more

My Favorite Muffin debuts new concept

BAB Inc., opened two units of its new concept, My Favorite Muffin® Your All Day Bakery Café, in Littleton and Highlands Ranch, Colo. The company is the franchisor and licensor of Big Apple Bagels®, My Favorite Muffin, Jacobs Bros. Bagels® and Brewster's® Coffee. The new concept incorporates the strengths of the original BAB concepts into a newly designed café that features a contemporary and comfortable interior and a menu that crosses several dayparts while maintaining its focus on fresh baked products, especially its cake-like muffins. · read more

Italian Vending Machine Offers Hot Pizza

Italian food is famous for being cooked fresh with fresh ingredients, but an entrepreneur wants to popularize his automatic vending machine that will cook pizza with fresh ingredients, including the dough. · read more

Submarina California Subs Gets New CEO

Submarina California Subs today announced the promotion of Mimi Zeller to president and CEO effective immediately. Before joining Submarina as COO in 2006, Zeller began her career in franchising more than 23 years ago at Domino's Pizza where she oversaw operational aspects including unit-level sales growth and profitability, marketing, new product development, royalty collection, and standards compliance for 725 franchises. · read more

Domino's fall in the right places

Domino's Pizza is another one of those companies that appeals to the stay-at-home-and-spend-less consumer who has featured strongly throughout the economic slowdown. · read more

Domino's a tough sell

“Several studies tie the proximity of fast-food restaurants to schools to increased obesity at those schools,” she said, and the effect is amplified when the restaurant in question is a national chain spending millions of dollars on advertising. · read more

Bankruptcy for Burger King franchisee

"Because of market conditions, [AJA New York] fell behind in making their franchise payments," Mr. Brown said. He noted that none of the nine locations would be closed, and that AJA New York was already seeing an uptick in August business due to a new marketing promotion. At least four of the nine Burger King locations were still in operation as of Thursday afternoon. The phones at the other five outposts listed on Burger King's Web site had either been disconnected or were not answered. · read more

Fast food 24 hours a day - residents outraged

About 50 people living around the Queensway area turned up to North Worle Local Action Team (LAT) meeting on Monday to voice their concerns about McDonalds' proposals. Bosses at the village's fast food outlet, a franchise, want to open the drive-through and restaurant until 6am on Saturday and Sunday mornings. · read more

Lenard's franchisees lift profit

Australia's largest specialty chicken retailer, Lenard's, says the average annual operating profit of its franchisees grew by 12.2 percent, while average sales increased by 2.19 percent, in the past financial year. · read more

Michel's, Donut King lift RFG to record result

Retail Food Group, one of Australian's largest retail food brand managers and franchisors, has today announced a 33 per cent surge in net profit after tax as consumer demand for comfort food fails to wane. · read more

Foerst Says No To Devitt's Anti-Subway Campaign

Resident John Devitt's campaign to stop a Subway sandwich franchise from opening at the corner of Central Avenue and Quimby Street ran into a brick wall, in the form of Councilman Jim Foerst, during the Town Council meeting Tuesday night. Devitt came before the Council for the second time to complain that the sandwich chain's downtown opening could open the door for more fast food franchises. He said he wanted the Council to explore new laws to stop fast food franchises from opening downtown. · read more

Eat fresh, eat kosher: Subway the largest U.S. kosher restaurant chain

What's the largest kosher restaurant chain? Mendy's? Six branches, seven if you count the meat and dairy counters at New York City's Grand Central Station. Dougie's? Five branches in New York and New Jersey. Don't even bring up Nathan's Famous -- it stopped making kosher hot dogs altogether. The dark-horse winner is Subway, the made-to-order sandwich giant poised to open its ninth kosher franchise Aug. 1 · read more