As I write this, it's mid-December. For the last week or so, when the UPS driver pulls up to the office, one of us is receiving a gift, most often an edible one from our colleagues and friends from around the country. And let's just say it's never a veggie tray.
What was your upbringing? I grew up in Palm Springs, and never planned to go back to Palm Springs. There's nothing to do. We played in the dirt and dug holes and rode our bikes all over. My father was a pilot for Continental and my parents got divorced when I was 6 or 7. They were a pioneer with divorce.
The good news at Orangetheory, the No. 1 brand on our Franchise Times Fast & Serious list this month, is each participant's heart rate is displayed on screens for all to see, with the goal being to get in the “orange zone,” or 85 percent of maximum heart rate, as quickly as possible and stay there.
Liz Williams talks global expansion. Toppers Pizza's founder looks for a ‘genetic defect' in his franchisees. Naf Naf is ready to franchise. Honeygrow's founder tells how to attract capital. Four C-Suiters sat down with FT at the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference.
‘Kinda crazy' is how CEO Dave Long describes the pace of franchise sales at Orangetheory, the top brand on this year's Franchise Times Fast & Serious list. With unit sales rocketing 218 percent over the past three years, one recent week brought 11 gym openings. But with a solid foundation learned at Massage Envy and honed when he paused franchise sales in 2012 to beef up training materials, Long is setting up the franchise to last. Learn his growth strategies, plus those of 39 franchise execs who are intent on growing quickly but only in ways that can last.
Big cities are dusting off old playbooks by once again building multi-level shopping centers in central business districts as suburban malls continue grinding through their Amazon-induced identity crisis.
T-shirts, signs and pop-up ads to promote an initial public offering? Muscle Maker Grill is using those populist tools and others to promote its initial public offering under a new option known as Reg A+ or a mini-IPO.
Some people might see a location in Koreatown, remember the Watts riots and stay away. Two Buffalo Wild Wings operators in Los Angeles saw an opportunity to help heal old wounds.
A chance to own 25 percent of a Beef ‘O' Brady's started Aaron Carricato's path to five units. He's returning the favor, giving loans to promising GMs to become part owner.
The fitness industry now stands at $31 billion, and the franchise model is taking a healthy chunk of that. That share, however, is getting sliced and diced with every next-wave fitness concept that hits on some of the biggest trends.