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With QSR Sales Down and Consumer Sentiment Falling, Brands Turn to Data for Answers
Franchise News

With QSR Sales Down and Consumer Sentiment Falling, Brands Turn to Data for Answers

  • Joe Halpern
  • Updated Nov 13, 2025

Panelists at the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference share how customer insights helped increase the frequency of visits to stores…

Dirty Soda Franchise Swig Supercharges Growth Plans With Pair of Exec Moves
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Dirty Soda Franchise Swig Supercharges Growth Plans With Pair of Exec Moves

  • Joe Halpern
  • Updated Oct 14, 2025

 

KBP Brands Adds KFC, Sonic Units, Plus More Bold Deals
Franchise Mergers and Acquisitions

KBP Brands Adds KFC, Sonic Units, Plus More Bold Deals

  • Joe Halpern, Emilee Wentland
  • Updated Sep 10, 2024

KBP Brands added 28 KFCs to its portfolio in North Carolina from Scottish Food Systems, and it bought 13 more from Cary, North Carolina-based …

Capriotti’s Taps Sonic Exec as First CMO
Franchise News

Capriotti’s Taps Sonic Exec as First CMO

  • Megan Glenn
  • Updated May 7, 2024

Sandwich concept Capriotti’s is beefing up its executive team with Kim Lewis, its first chief marketing officer. After her time with Sonic Dri…

It’s Official: FTC OKs Subway Sale to Roark
Franchise Mergers and Acquisitions

It’s Official: FTC OKs Subway Sale to Roark

  • Joe Halpern
  • Updated Aug 29, 2024

By completing one of the largest acquisition deals in franchise history, the private equity firm now owns two of the biggest sub sandwich companies in the United States.

FTC Reportedly Investigating Subway Sale to Roark
Franchise News

FTC Reportedly Investigating Subway Sale to Roark

  • Joe Halpern
  • Updated Dec 8, 2023

Roark Capital’s acquisition of Subway could be heading into a lengthy delay as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reportedly opened an inve…

Next-Generation Franchise Owners Talk Accessing Capital, Real Estate
Franchise News

Next-Generation Franchise Owners Talk Accessing Capital, Real Estate

  • Emilee Wentland
  • Updated Nov 15, 2023

Owning a franchise isn’t easy, even for folks who have decades of business experience. As Sonic franchisee Mike James put it, “It was a shit s…

From Shakes to Spines, New CMO at The Joint Excited for Career Shift
Franchise News

From Shakes to Spines, New CMO at The Joint Excited for Career Shift

  • Megan Glenn
  • Updated Sep 8, 2023

Lori Abou Habib, The Joint Chiropractic’s new chief marketing officer, is looking forward to something of a career change. For the last 15 yea…

Roark Capital Agrees to Buy Subway for Reported $9.6B
Franchise Mergers and Acquisitions

Roark Capital Agrees to Buy Subway for Reported $9.6B

  • Joe Halpern
  • Updated Sep 11, 2023

Roark Capital, the Atlanta-based private equity firm with $37 billion in assets under management, beat out a number of other private equity firms to buy sandwich giant Subway.

QSR Burger Chains Ignite Growth as Pandemic Rebound Continues
Franchise News

QSR Burger Chains Ignite Growth as Pandemic Rebound Continues

  • By Laura Michaels
  • Updated Oct 12, 2022

If there was a quick-service restaurant selling hamburgers in 2021, consumers were there to eat them. After the QSR burger segment took a tumb…

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