Wearing quarter-zip golf pullovers rather than business suits. Learning to bake New York-style bagels. Skipping makeup and using the Zoom touch-up feature instead. Six franchise executives talk about what’s changed since March 2020 and the world shut down, and what they can’t wait to do once the pandemic is at bay.
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“I did a tremendous amount of research into pizza,” said Donte' Andry, and what he learned, coupled with a record-breaking year in which Mountain Mike’s Pizza surpassed $200 million in systemwide sales, convinced Andry to sign a franchise development deal to grow Mountain Mike’s throughout Utah.
Jeff Rigsby laughed when I accused him of being more loyal to chicken than to his home state of Ohio. Come on, Jeff, you’re a Buckeye who laun…
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The 125 or so franchisees still operating at Burgerim, the burger franchise that infamously collapsed in late 2019 when CEO Oren Loni fled the…
Substance matters, not just size. Especially when it comes to your development pipeline.