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A favorite restaurant memory from childhood is not always about the food. Sometimes it is the toy tucked inside the meal, the activity completed while waiting at the table, or the treat that became part of a family tradition. Friendly’s is leaning into that sense of discovery with its new Conehead Crew™, a systemwide kids experience that launched Sept. 16th. The program combines redesigned kids menus, activities, and collectible trading cards with five characters inspired by Friendly’s familiar ice cream sundaes. It is a playful addition to the meal, but the idea reaches beyond keeping children occupied at the table.…
The Dogtopia Foundation is marking National Service Dog Month by highlighting nearly a decade of fundraising that has generated more than $5.6 million…
There is no shortage of national days on the calendar. Some celebrate foods. Others recognize professions, causes, hobbies, or moments in history. While…
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Growth & Strategy
The ideas, emerging concepts, investments, marketing, and strategic moves shaping franchise growth.
Pumpkin is back, apple is having a moment, and franchise restaurant brands are once again using the arrival of fall to refresh their menus and give customers something timely to talk about. Caribou Coffee, Smoothie King and Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii have each introduced or revived fall menu offerings…
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Operations & Technology
The systems, tools, technology, and operating ideas helping franchise brands and operators perform better.
Ask most franchise owners how they feel about a pricing change handed down from corporate, and the honest answer usually involves some combination of suspicion, resistance, and a slow walk toward compliance. Multi-unit systems have tried committees, mandates, and system-wide averages to force alignment, and franchisees have pushed back on…
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Leadership & People
The executives, operators, talent moves, and leadership ideas shaping franchise organizations.
WellBiz Brands has appointed John Thuringer as Vice President of Franchise Growth, adding an experienced franchise development executive to support expansion across its beauty, health and wellness portfolio. Thuringer brings 17 years of experience from Purpose Brands, where he helped drive franchise development for Anytime Fitness and Waxing the City.…
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Buying a Franchise
Practical guidance for evaluating, buying, and preparing to own a franchise.
When prospective franchisees compare opportunities, the royalty rate is often one of the first numbers they notice. One franchise may charge 5% of revenue. Another may charge 6%. A third may charge 7%. Those figures are easy to compare, but they don’t necessarily tell buyers what they need to know.…
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Some businesses are built from spreadsheets and market research. Others start with a craving after a long workout, a stare of wonder at a dessert topping bar, and the kind of loyalty that sneaks up on you before you ever realize it has arrived. For Neil Hershman, the story of…
There is a problem hiding in plain sight inside franchise development. Brokers and developers are routinely losing 3 to 5 hours a day to operational tasks that have nothing to do with being in conversations: CRM updates, follow-up emails, calendar wrangling, and candidate scheduling that quietly crowds out the conversations…
Walk past a claw arcade on your way to a department store, and something happens. The lights catch your eye. The sounds pull at some corner of your childhood. Before you know it, you have tokens in your hand and thirty minutes have quietly disappeared. That magnetic quality is not…
There is a version of the working parent’s morning that everyone knows too well. The alarm goes off before the sun does. Breakfast is whatever survives the scramble. The drop-off runs long, the commute does not cooperate, and somewhere between the car and the desk, the gym visit that was…
Moving is rarely just a moving truck and a new address. For many families, the hardest part is not logistics. It’s the moment when a parent’s life changes, and the home that once felt stable becomes complicated, unsafe, or simply too much to manage. Smooth Transitions exists for that moment.…
There are brands that follow the market, and then there are brands that seem to arrive exactly when the market is ready for them. Konala (pronounced Koe-Nah-Luh) sits firmly in the second category. Named after founders Trace and Jammie Miller’s two rescue dogs, Kona and Nala, the brand carries a…
