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MRM Franchise Feed: Krystal Refranchising and Pieology in China

Modern Restaurant Management

" Macaluso hired Cypress to insure a consistent and disciplined approach to the process. Das and Patel are the first new franchisees to join Krystal since 2005. Same menu, same location, just a new building – and you see how people really flock back to the brand. She will now have oversight of all GFG snack brands.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

EATER

A formally trained creative writer — she earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College in Chicago in 2005 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2022 — Regan used menus to corral the details of a chaotic early life into submission before she published an actual book. Not usually. You want to see a menu?”. “We