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Survey Finds The 500 Largest Restaurant Chains in the U.S Experienced Growth That Reached $288 billion in 2015.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 8,812 Reads 1 Shares
What makes a great company culture? Free food? Extra vacation time? Flexible hours? Employers spend more than $720 million on engagement every year, yet only 30 percent of the workforce is actively engaged.
  • Julie Moreland
  • 9,382 Reads
If you had LeBron James on your team, you'd feel pretty good about your chances of winning--big. And that's exactly what Blaze "Fast-Fire'd" Pizza intends to do.
  • By Eddy Goldberg
  • 5,059 Reads 15 Shares
Mission statement, shmission statement! Do you have a Customer Service Vision for your employees to live out every day, with every customer, in every transaction?
  • John DiJulius
  • 15,568 Reads 3 Shares
As senior vice president and chief investment officer of Impact Properties, Shirin Kanji is in charge of all of the Tampa-based company's investment-related activities.
  • Helen Bond
  • 12,807 Reads 12 Shares
Ross Harried has found that a "small" strategy can serve up big business success. His Maui Wowi Ka'anapali Carts (Tiki huts on wheels) are 8 feet wide, 3 feet deep, 8 feet high and can squeeze in most anywhere...
  • Helen Bond
  • 10,435 Reads 9 Shares
When we last visited with Dawn Lafreeda in mid-2012 she was operating 70 Denny's restaurants in six states and had been adding restaurants, even through the Great Recession.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 11,719 Reads 1 Shares
At Jersey Mike's Subs, inter-departmental cooperation using an integrated technology platform and a home-grown POS system continue to fuel growth.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 6,280 Reads 2 Shares
We kick off 2016 with our annual Mega 99 issue: a list of the largest U.S. franchisees ranked by total number of units--along with 7 profiles of multi-unit mega-operators.
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Each year we work with FRANdata to compile a list of the country's largest multi-unit franchisee organizations.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 3,757 Reads 2 Shares
So, you just found out your POS system needs a software and hardware upgrade to support EMV ("smart chip") technology and you missed the October 1st implementation date.
  • Tom Epstein
  • 11,770 Reads 1 Shares
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Mike Pietrzyk has always loved contributing to charitable causes. So it wasn't surprising that a decade ago the Firehouse Subs area representative came up with the idea of selling his restaurants' empty 5-gallon pickle buckets, rather than tossing them out.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 7,719 Reads
Innovation in non-traditional locations defines Gina Puente's approach to business. When we profiled her in 2010, she told us how her family business, Puente Enterprises, had created La Bodega Winery, a winery in an airport, in the mid-1990s.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 7,322 Reads
In 2011, RPM Pizza (the largest U.S. franchisee of Domino's Pizza) made major improvements in its speed-of-delivery service by improving its percentage of on-time pizza deliveries by 17 percent.
  • John DiJulius
  • 6,790 Reads 1 Shares
Results from the 2016 Annual Franchise Development Report (AFDR) were unveiled in October at the 17th annual Franchise Leadership & Development Conference.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 6,041 Reads
In my 30-plus years in franchising I have often wondered: What is the "DNA" of a franchise sales superstar? Is it a natural selling talent fueled by tremendous drive? Is it pure luck based on representing today's hottest franchise?
  • Steve Olson
  • 3,050 Reads
Gina Puente creates success non-traditionally through unique brands and airport locations.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 8,627 Reads
New Franchise Business Review "Best of the Best" report highlights the most satisfied franchisees in the business.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 11,709 Reads 3 Shares
When it comes to hiring, BrightStar Care franchisees Maureen and Peter Moore count on more than just credentials to get the job done.
  • Helen Bond
  • 10,892 Reads 1 Shares
Food Service Industry Making A Difference In Childhood Hunger - And Has The Stats To Prove It.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 5,081 Reads
Don't just tell your employees to be present or to provide genuine hospitality without telling them <how.> Make it black-and-white, and make it measurable.
  • John DiJulius
  • 20,714 Reads 22 Shares
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Franchise Business Review Provides Data and Insight on Women in Franchising
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 12,641 Reads 29 Shares
In the fast food industry, taste will always rule. The past few years, however, have seen a shift in the way guests connect with brands, with elevated expectations regarding food quality, transparency, and authenticity.
  • By Bill Phelps
  • 5,144 Reads 1 Shares
Technology has become essential to the operation of franchised businesses around the world. This incudes not only operating the actual business, but managing the franchisor-franchisee relationship across country and continent boundaries.
  • William Edwards
  • 15,848 Reads 4 Shares
When Farouk Diab walks into one of his 18 Wienerschnitzel restaurants wearing a uniform, same as the other workers there, he's making a statement.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 9,917 Reads 2 Shares
At Jersey Mike's Subs, technology, marketing, operations, and strategy are so intertwined, "We joke back and forth about who's in charge of who, because there's so much overlap," says Rich Hope, the company's CMO.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 4,537 Reads 1 Shares
Eric Holm may own 31 successful Golden Corral restaurants in Florida and Georgia and run a $150 million business, but his thoughts never stray far from the poverty in which he grew up.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 8,056 Reads 1 Shares
On May 20, 2013, when strong tornadoes tore through Moore, Okla., Brandon Boozer and his family were lucky. Their home wasn't damaged, though some of their closest neighbors lost everything.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 6,375 Reads 3 Shares
It's October 1, 2015 and a line of hackers is standing outside your store waiting for you to turn on your computer system. Why? So they can steal your customers' credit card data and sell it to the highest bidder, of course.
  • Tom Epstein
  • 9,523 Reads 1 Shares
Shattering selling myths: the truth about top sales performers.
  • Steve Olson
  • 6,552 Reads 2 Shares
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