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How to build a bigger and more profitable franchise? ‘Living Large' will follow three emerging systems through a year's worth of challenges: Bottle & Bottega, Executive Care and Wild Wing Cafe.
Whenever a private equity firm buys a franchise, the champagne corks fly. But what happens two or three years in, when the excitement dies and for some, all that's left is acrimony?
They say once the restaurant business gets in your blood it's tough to quit. Case in point: Huddle House franchisee Greg Hansen. He left Jack in the Box after a 12-year stint that began in high school.
Remember that old saw about someone being able to sell snow to an Eskimo? Well, I think I just met the two young men who could do it. Gustavo Miranda Garcia, 21, and Patricio Muldowney, 34, definitely have silver tongues, figuratively, not literally.
Discussions of recent legal developments affecting franchising in Asia were held amid the usual trappings of the annual International Bar Association Conference, the first in Asia in years.
There were 2,400 speakers, restaurant operators, finance pros and suppliers at the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference, November 10-12, 2014, at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. This year's conference is November 9-11, 2015.
1.2 billion people and an emerging middle class are just two good reasons for franchisors to take a second look at India. In December, a second franchise trade mission visited Mumbai, New Delhi and Bengaluru.
Who will make news in franchising in 2015? Franchise Times presents 20 people, brands and trends we expect to make an impact, and we thank the many readers who answered our call for nominations so we could consider a deep pool.
What do multi-unit franchisees want? Can casual-dining chains be saved? Those topics and more headlined the recent Restaurant Finance & Development Conference. We offer a rundown.