Restaurant Business

JULY 28, 2025

Franchised brands have been popular targets for investors that prefer their lack of capital spending and cash flow that is less susceptible to recessionary downturns like those of company-run operations. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Unit count grew nearly 5%.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 21, 2025

The private-equity firm owns a controlling stake in Fitzpatrick’s former company Driven Brands, which owns auto repair franchises like Maaco, Meineke and other brands. The entirely franchised brand has closed nearly 8,000 domestic locations over the past decade, more than any other U.S. system sales declined 3.8% last year, to $9.5

Loyalty Program

Restaurant Business

JULY 29, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Now he's readying the three-unit concept for franchise growth, saying this is how younger diners want to eat. Sign up here. She provides in-depth coverage of chefs, trends and menu innovation. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 11, 2025

At Huddle House, development is also picking up, with 50 franchise agreements in the pipeline, including the largest deal in the brand’s history that will bring 20 locations to the Houston area. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Members help make our journalism possible. Sign up here.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

JUNE 13, 2025

The fast-food franchisor is asking a federal court to sign off on its decision to terminate Paradigm Investment Group’s franchise agreement. She previously served as editor in chief of Winsight Grocery Business View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Starbucks’ latest gambit to improve operations?

Operations

Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

All are company owned and there are no plans to franchise. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? The three-unit chain has two more under construction in the Tampa Bay area, and another five to seven are planned in 2026, reaching the Orlando market. At Greenlane, there’s no dine-in service.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

AUGUST 5, 2025

franchise operations for the West division. News leadership franchising Lisa Jennings is a veteran restaurant industry reporter and editor who covers the fast-casual sector, independent restaurants and emerging chain concepts. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? increase in traffic.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 21, 2025

There are no immediate plans to franchise, said Christiana Luo, Big Way’s chief brand officer and co-founder. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Founded in 2022 in Vancouver, the chain has 13 units there, and will also continue to grow north of the border. and all are company-owned.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

JUNE 18, 2025

Bubbakoo’s started franchising in 2015, and the chain has grown into 15 states, mostly on the East Coast and Midwest. News acquisitions franchising Lisa Jennings is a veteran restaurant industry reporter and editor who covers the fast-casual sector, independent restaurants and emerging chain concepts. By Lisa Jennings on Jun.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

JUNE 25, 2025

As of early June, Panera Bread had 2,197 units, both company and franchised, in 48 states, Washington, D.C. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? The chain is in the process of shuttering all its fresh dough facilities , and shifting bread making to third-party bakers. and Canada.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 12, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Premium Emerging Brands Pepper Lunch carves a niche in the Panda Express-dominated world of Asian fast casual The Japan-born franchise brand has 540 units globally, but only nine in the U.S. Sign up here. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

Delivery

Restaurant Business

JUNE 11, 2025

and Canada, Irving, Texas-based 7-Eleven also operates and franchises Speedway and Stripes stores, as well as Laredo Taco Company and Raise the Roost Chicken and Biscuits restaurants. She previously served as editor in chief of Winsight Grocery Business View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips?

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Restaurant Business

JULY 25, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Now he's readying the three-unit concept for franchise growth, saying this is how younger diners want to eat. News Breakfast Technomic consumers Pat plans and executes menu, food and drink stories for Restaurant Business and hosts the weekly Menu Talk podcast.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 5, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? News independents chefs Lisa Jennings is a veteran restaurant industry reporter and editor who covers the fast-casual sector, independent restaurants and emerging chain concepts. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 29, 2025

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 5, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Become a Restaurant Business member today and unlock exclusive benefits, including unlimited access to all of our content. Sign up here. News casual_dining Joe Guszkowski is a senior editor with Restaurant Business covering technology and casual-dining chains.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 18, 2025

News casual_dining finance franchising Joe Guszkowski is a senior editor with Restaurant Business covering technology and casual-dining chains. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Sign up here. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 24, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? News The Bottom Line Fast_Casual Restaurant Business Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Maze is a longtime industry journalist who writes about restaurant finance, mergers and acquisitions and the economy, with a particular focus on quick-service restaurants.

Operations

Restaurant Business

JULY 1, 2025

He will replace longtime leader Bob Johnston, who began working at Melting Pot as a dishwasher at 14 and later bought the concept with his brothers, growing it into a national franchise. He has held various franchise and operations leadership roles. It also unveiled a new incentive program to help spur franchise growth.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 23, 2025

It has been franchising for decades. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? " Now the structure is in place to accelerate expansion outside California, without franchising. This is a great conversation. Handel’s was founded in Youngstown Ohio in 1945.

Hospitality

Restaurant Business

JULY 22, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? " Now the structure is in place to accelerate expansion outside California, without franchising. Become a Restaurant Business member today and unlock exclusive benefits, including unlimited access to all of our content. Sign up here.

Loyalty Program

Goliath Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

With all the trouble the pandemic has given the restaurant industry these past couple months, you might be surprised to hear that restaurant franchising opportunities have never been stronger. Up-and-coming restaurants like Fajita Pete recently announced it will triple locations from their new franchise deals (2). UNSTABLE WORKFORCE.

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Goliath Consulting

JUNE 15, 2021

This is a summary of our earlier article, “Responding to COVID-19’s Impact on the Restaurant Supply Chain.” You can read our original article here (10). This is precisely what Akash Kapoor, CEO of Bay Area-based franchise Curry Up Now, has been doing to get around the problem of ingredient deficits. Multiple Sourcing and Backup.

Supplies

Goliath Consulting

MAY 19, 2020

According to Daniel Smith, writer for QSR Magazine, “technology is playing a prominent and escalating role in catering. From venue information, menus, pack lists, hiring, timelines, etc., there will be logistical challenges in trying to keep track of every detail without a business management software.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2021

Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. The bill would have had a dramatic impact on fast food franchises. Legislation.

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Goliath Consulting

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In this article, we define culture as a set of guiding or shared organizational values that define behaviors and a restaurant’s operations. Denise Lee Yohn from QSR Magazine uses Southwest, Zappos and Virgin to exemplify great work culture (1). So what do we mean by culture? And what does it mean to have a great one?

Customer Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

ECJ’s Food, Beverage and Hospitality Department attorneys advise food and beverage clients, startups and other businesses on a comprehensive range of issues, including employment, trade secrets, partnership disputes, contract negotiations, intellectual property, licensing and franchise disputes. Velazquez (real estate), Peter S.

Food Safety

Goliath Consulting

MARCH 19, 2021

Employees are considering their personal safety as a priority these days,” said Danny Klein from QSR Magazine (6). This is exactly how Ricky Girardi, previously director of HR and Training at a Chick-fil-A franchise, approached it,” Wang said. One such stressor that is highly relevant in 2021 is safety concerns around COVID-19.

Recruiting

Goliath Consulting

MAY 8, 2020

For example, Catersource magazine reported 7 to 8 % as the average pretax profit in the full-service restaurant industry (3). According to his article, restaurant owners who implement a hybrid approach to delivery—using both self-managed fleets and third-party delivery providers—have shown the highest customer and employee satisfaction rates.

Catering

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 25, 2020

To add resources to these guides, reach out to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com with news. " Fitsmallbusiness.com launched a series of articles detailing what the restaurant industry can do to stay ahead of the curve as the U.S. And Others.

Online Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features Grubhub's State of the Plate 2020 trend report, the fragility of "open," di g ital resilience and brand intimacy. MBLM also further analyzed the industry in an article entitled, “ Fast Food & COVID-19.

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Indoor Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Because Ratchet + Wrench is really an online magazine, accessing premium articles requires a subscription. Tuffy Tire & Auto Service Tuffy is an automotive franchise with a long history of high-quality service and treating their customers with honesty and respect.

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Indoor Media

JUNE 28, 2019

Because Ratchet + Wrench is really an online magazine, accessing premium articles requires a subscription. Tuffy is an automotive franchise with a long history of high-quality service and treating their customers with honesty and respect.

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BNG Point of Sale

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to the trade publication PMQ Pizza Magazine, $46.34 How much money can a pizza business, whether it is a franchise or an independent, make in a year? This is the kind of achievement that will get you on stage during a big franchise gathering! . billion (about $140 per person in the US) worth of pizza was sold in 2019.

Point of Sale

Sling

JULY 4, 2021

If you’ve got a compelling story, contact a local magazine to get the story out. For more details on these restaurant marketing strategies, and for more ways to improve customer loyalty, check out these articles from the Sling blog: 5 Effective Restaurant Loyalty Programs, Plus Tips For Success. 17) Get Food Bloggers On Your Side.

Marketing

Apicbase

JANUARY 13, 2023

QSR Magazine , 2019) There are 155,448 single-location full-service restaurants in the US. FSR Magazine , 2022) Use of QR code payments keeps growing. Lunchbox , 2021) Restaurant Franchising Statistics 1-2 locations will have opened while you’re reading this article. billion in 2022 and is expected to reach $3,787.4

2023

Restaurant Business

JULY 30, 2025

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