Businesses relying on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver timely announcements, ads and coupons are expected to be hit harder by recent delays, and franchised print mail industries such as Allegra and SpeedPro are clinging to hope.
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Facial recognition for payment and loyalty is here, and it's nice about your age.
A projector and computer vision makes training fully interactive. Dominos has piloted this very technology that gives visual cues to people as…
The Picnic pizza assembly bot is designed for high-volume pizza franchises or conference concessions; it just requires someone to pop the asse…
Franchise Technology
Supply chains aren't the most exciting aspect of the franchise world, but without a strong supply backbone, concepts simply cannot efficiently scale. That's why you see so many chains take one of two paths: link up with a national distributor or grow concentrically to keep the supply chain as efficient as possible.
An uptick in registered vehicles, longer work commutes and lower gas prices continue to present more opportunities for automotive aftermarket franchises as they look to snag a piece of a $287 billion industry.
Shelly O'Callaghan, general counsel at International Dairy Queen, had one of her worst days ever in October 2014, when news broke about a data breach at the Minneapolis-based franchise.
Dairy Queen's Shelly O'Callaghan
“If data privacy and security is not keeping you up at night—it should,” said Leonard MacPhee, a partner at Perkins Coie and moderator of a panel on the topic at the International Franchise Association Legal Symposium in Chicago last week.