Restaurant Franchises
Franchise Restaurants a Bright Spot
How are U.S. restaurants doing? Not very well. Restaurants in general show a 1% decline since last year at this time. That means quite simply that there are 1% fewer restaurants in America today than there were a year ago. While many restaurants opened and many closed, the total number…
Franchise Faux Pas
Yum Brands, the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, recently opened a new kind of fast food restaurant, a place selling the delicious Vietnamese sandwich known as “bahn mi.” They opened their first location in Dallas, Texas, a town with many Southeast Asian Americans, and the locals…
Just One Franchise: Teakwoods Tavern
Teakwoods Tavern is the kind of place where you can hang out with friends and watch the game, grab a quick lunch with friends from work, or enjoy a relaxed meal with your family. You can even swing by for breakfast. The franchise likes to place Teakwoods Taverns in small…
Fast Food Franchises under Fire
Quick service restaurants make up one of the largest pieces of the franchise business opportunity pie. Or cupcake, cookie pizza, burger, or dish of your choice. The appeal from a business point of view is obvious. Some 160,000 fast food restaurants serve 50,000,000 customer a day, to the tine of…
Just One Franchise: Russo’s New York Pizzeria
Brand Keys 2014 Customer Loyalty Engagement Index (CLEI) results are in and Dominos rules the major pizza brands as the closet to always meeting customer expectations. With a 90% rating, it’s hard to beat. But Papa John’s is in at a close second with 87% and Pizza Hut is only…
Just One Franchise: BullChicks
Most quick service restaurant franchises use a small menu that reduces the amount and variety of food they need to stock and allows for standardization in food prep. BullChicks, on the other hand, has developed a completely customizable menu of 20 burgers, 20 wraps, and 20 salads as well as…
Just One Franchise: Zoup!
One of the most famous episodes of 20th century TV hit Seinfeld was about a soup restaurant with amazing soup but serious customer service issues. The episode was based on a real soup restaurant, and perhaps it’s no surprise that when that real life soup man tried to franchise, he didn’t…
Cornerstone Tastes
Have you ever been to a restaurant and fallen head over heels for their “secret sauce?” No amount of taste tests and trials could replicate the delicious sauce you fell in love with, so you headed back again and again to the restaurant when a craving hit you. What if…
Fast Food Franchises & Hourly Compensation
Fast food workers are determined to make their jobs, which are often perceived as a source of high school kids’ pocket money, into jobs that can support a family. In many cases, the arguments around this issue focus on how “giant corporations” can afford to pay more for workers. Many…
Just One Franchise: Sunny Street Cafe
Some say one of the most difficult aspects of running a restaurant is staffing. Others say it’s getting attention in a crowded market and differentiating your restaurant. Today’s focus franchise opportunity has both these problems licked. Sunny Street Café is a franchise for the seasoned business owner who is looking…