Franchise Articles

Mom and pop take over children's store

The Hoseins, who now live in Bradford, had been interested in opening a new Children's Orchard location and had been in talks with the franchise, now based in Michigan, when they heard there was an opportunity to take over the store in Newburyport. · read more

Cold Stone moves into co-branding in Europe

Cold Stone Creamery has partnered with Denmark's leading chocolate manufacturer and retailer Sv. Michelsen to open the first two of 13 international co-brand locations in Copenhagen, Denmark. The two co-branded units opened in June. Cold Stone first entered Europe in Denmark's Tivoli Gardens in May 2008 and has four stores in Denmark. · read more

CiCi's Pizza Celebrates Ultimate Pizza Party Blowout at All 650 Restaurants

Industry professionals have taken notice of CiCi's Pizza's continuous growth and success. Nation's Restaurant News has ranked CiCi's number one for sales and unit growth in the pizza chain category for the past three years. In its recent 2009 ranking, Entrepreneur magazine's Annual Franchise Top 500 issue, ranked CiCi's Pizza as number one in the Italian restaurant industry category an honor the company also received in 2007. · read more

USA café franchise to expand in Middle East

The Cereal Bowl is a café franchise that enables customers to make their own cereal creations or pick from one of many unique combinations created by the company. There are more than 35 cereals available, hot and cold, as well as over 40 toppings to choose from. In addition to cereals, cafes sell a variety of other products including cereal bars and oatmeal smoothies known as Oaties. · read more

BAB, Inc. Introduces New Bakery Café Concept

BAB, the franchisor and licensor of Big Apple Bagels® and My Favorite Muffin®, is no stranger to the Bakery Café trend that is sweeping the fast casual restaurant industry. The new concept incorporates the strengths of both original BAB concepts into a newly designed café that features a contemporary and comfortable interior and a menu offering that crosses over multiple day parts while maintaining its focus on fresh baked products. · read more

Pizza Inn Announces Deals for 13 New Franchised U.S. Restaurants

Pizza Inn (Nasdaq:PZZI), an international pizza chain famous for its traditional and specialty pizzas, is defying recession-conservatism, having recently signed 13 new deals through its development incentive program. In addition, Pizza Inn, Inc. has one new corporate-owned location under construction in the city of Fort Worth, TX and has signed letters of intent for 2 additional locations in the Dallas - Fort Worth metroplex, continuing their commitment to growing the company. · read more

Burger King sets up first independently run store in Singapore

Peter Tan, Asia Pacific president, Burger King, said: "Customers have become just way too sophisticated that if we're not keeping up with them and even more importantly leading them, we're going to be behind the 'eight' ball. · read more

Illinois McDonald’s Hepatitis Outbreak Linked to Fast Food Workers

Originally, both the county health department and the McDonald’s franchise owner, Kevin Murphy, said the infections were not detected until July 13. · read more

Cowboys player to open Smashburger eateries

Denver-based Smashburger is a fast-food burger franchise in which the burgers served are made mostly or fully from Angus beef. The company is funded with $15 million from Denver private equity firm Consumer Capital Partners. · read more

The Cereal Bowl® Expands to Middle East

Continuing their growth, The Cereal Bowl today announced an agreement to expand its franchise brand internationally into Qatar and other regions of the Middle East. · read more

Rising Roll offers 43 sandwiches

Rising Roll began in 1996 with one store in Atlanta and has grown to 12 locations in five states. Frank Foster, owner of the Blue Ash shop, was working behind the counter and said a Downtown or West Chester Township franchise is under consideration. · read more

Diabetes friendly menu at sandwich bar franchise

A new menu developed by franchise sandwich bar Healthy Habits has been designed to help improve the prevention rates of diabetes... · read more

UFood expands in Lone Star State

The Newton, Mass., franchise retailer of healthier options of traditional fast food fare has signed a lease with the Dallas County public hospital through its Texas franchisee, Puente-Brancato Enterprises Inc. Puente-Brancato Enterprises also operates a location inside the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. · read more

Down economy should again help McDonald's

"Fast food is the fastest-growing, most successful segment of the hospitality industry," he said, and it is little wonder that McDonald's would get the biggest benefit of that trend." · read more

King Pie's dough starts to roll

A Winnipeg business's attempt to establish a new mass-market fast-food meat pie franchise venture has been forced into a more humble approach and is reaping some early rewards.King Pie hit some significant snags trying to import the meat-and-dessert pastry store franchise into Canada from South Africa during the past couple of years. · read more

Follow the plan

Chapman decided to make a move to McDonald's operator 10 years ago and now co-owns 16 locations in Monmouth and Ocean counties with her husband, Harry "Sandy" Chapman, the son of the McDonald's owner who gave her a start. · read more

Baskin-Robbins Opens Raleigh and Durham for Franchise Sales; Plans More Than 30 New Stores

Baskin-Robbins currently operates more than 6,000 stores in 35 countries and opened more than 600 stores globally in 2008. With a domestic footprint of nearly 2,700 locations, Baskin-Robbins is now seeking exceptional franchisee candidates in Raleigh and Durham to be part of an unprecedented growth campaign designed to increase its U.S. presence over time. Built over the last 64 years, Baskin-Robbins currently enjoys 98 percent brand awareness across the country and was named for the second consecutive year the number one ice cream and frozen dessert franchise in Entrepreneur magazine's annual "Franchise 500" ranking. · read more

Operator of 56 Dunkin' Donuts files for bankruptcy

Kainos Partners also said it discovered that its chief financial officer had engaged in $420,000 worth of financial transactions involving company assets for his personal use. The executive was fired in February. · read more

Experienced General Counsel, Pat Meyers, to Rejoin Quiznos' Executive Team

Meyers will oversee legal functions for the company's U.S. and international franchise systems, including franchise regulatory matters, compliance, litigation, contracts and other agreements, as well as providing general counsel on company matters. · read more

First American Fast-Food Restaurant SUBWAY Opens in Vladivostok

In Russia SUBWAY is actively developing on franchising from 2006, and to the present moment 60 restaurants work in Russian regions.The restaurant chain successfully works on franchising system from 1974. Since then SUBWAY franchise was recognized the best in the world 16 times. · read more