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Papa Murphy's, Evolve or Else
Food Franchise News Grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared food has been driving top line growth and bottom line profits in every sector of foodservice retail for 11 years. read more via @bluemaumau
Marcato Says Buffalo Wild Wings’ Analysis Sloppy, Has 'Astronomical Error'
Food Franchise News The 2017 annual shareholders meeting of Buffalo Wild Wings (nicknamed B-Dubs)[NASDAQ:BWLD] will be held on June 2, 2017, according to a new filing by the company. read more via @bluemaumau
Panera Makes Big Push into Delivery Service
Food Franchise News Panera web page offers delivery & catering Panera Bread (NASDAQ:PNRA) thinks the future of fast-casual is delivering its food to consumers. The St. Louis-based franchisor of bakeries publicly announced this morning that it plans to have 35 to 40 percent of its cafes offer delivery service by the end of 2017. read more via @bluemaumau
Subway Closed 359 Restaurants Last Year Amid Falling Sales
Food Franchise News Subway, which has more restaurants in the world than any other, announced today that it ended 2016 with 359 fewer U.S. locations, leaving it with 26,744 restaurants there. It's the brand's first net reduction. read more via @bluemaumau
Restaurant Executive Panel Tackles Online Reviews
Food Franchise News Online reviews have become a crucial part of business for restaurants. Last week social media managers from Pie Five, Firehouse, Pei Wei and First Watch formed a panel during the Restaurant Franchising & Innovation Summit in Dallas to tell a deeply interested audience the ins and outs of handling them. read more via @bluemaumau
Ruby Tuesday Declines Further in Its Third Quarter 2017
Food Franchise News Ruby Tuesday, Inc. (NYSE:RT) reported yesterday a decline in its third quarter. For its fiscal third quarter that ended February 28, 2017, company revenue declined 16.8 percent. This drop included a net reduction of 105 Company-owned Ruby Tuesday restaurants compared to the third quarter of the prior fiscal year. read more via @bluemaumau
Restaurant Success: Location, Location, Location!
Food Franchise News Carolyn Miller, the founder of the National Franchise Institute and author of Brick & Mortar Franchise Success: Know The Costs or Pay The Price, says that your business's location and the terms negotiated (rather than passively accepted) with the landlord are crucial to the your business's success. read more via @bluemaumau
Students Stage Hunger Strike to Pressure Ohio State to Shutter Wendy’s
Food Franchise News Fair-labor activist who oppose restaurants using produce from Mexico are continuing their two-year mission to shut down a Wendy's restaurant on the Ohio State University's campus, this time by staging a weeklong hunger strike to end the fast-food chain's lease. read more via @bluemaumau
How to Boost Your Profits from a Restaurant Remodel
Food Franchise News You've decided that the time is right to remodel a restaurant location. What are the steps to consider and take before, during and after to optimize the profitability of the newly spruced-up ambience? read more via @bluemaumau
Poughkeepsie Golden Corral Closes in Record Time
Food Franchise News Golden Corral terminated its Poughkeepsie, New York franchisee two months after it opened for failing to live up to its franchise agreement. read more via @bluemaumau
Franchisees Food Feuding
Food Franchise News When restaurant franchisees hire lawyers and a ‘communications specialist’ you can be sure that the undercurrents of discontent have surfaced. Foodservice Solutions Grocerant Guru read more via @bluemaumau
McDonald's Begins Serving Fresh Beef in Place of Frozen
Food Franchise News In a bid to serve better tasting hamburgers, McDonald's has started to serve fresh beef instead of its usual frozen patties in over 400 restaurants located in parts of Oklahoma and Texas. This could go a long way to revitalizing its business, but if handled wrong, which could easily happen, the change could be an unprecedented disaster. read more via @bluemaumau
Franchisee Association Supports Buffalo Wild Wings Board over Activist
Food Franchise News Inside a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant during basketball's March Madness Franchisees of Buffalo Wild Wings are throwing their weight behind their franchisor's current leadership team to stave off a hedge fund firm's attempt to take over the board. Their independent franchisee association, Franchise Business Service (FBS), is publicly voicing its support for the management team and current board of Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. [NASDAQ: BWLD]. read more via @bluemaumau
Palo Alto Area Restaurateurs Struggle to Get Staff, Stay in Business
Food Franchise News Palo Alto is in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country, making it tough for restaurateurs, and a good many other businesses in the area, to pay enough for their workers to afford rent. Many workers are moving out of the area to places with more reasonably priced accommodations. read more via @bluemaumau
“McLandlord” Report Highlights Fat Rent McDonald’s Collects from Franchisees
Food Franchise News A coalition of European and American trade unions released a report this week shining a bright light on how McDonald's Corporation's market power and real estate practices enable it to extract excessive rental payments from its franchisees. That, they say, could be leading to higher prices for consumers and lower wages for workers. read more via @bluemaumau
Filet-O-Fish Was Created by a McDonald's Franchisee
Food Franchise News McDonald's Filet-O-Fish was created by franchisee Lou Groen back in 1962 to boost sagging sales on Fridays in his predominantly Catholic neighborhood. read more via @bluemaumau
4 Metrics that Your Restaurant Should Track
Food Franchise News Four metrics for your restaurant can help you run it at top profit-generating efficiency: 1) sales per labor hour, 2) average cover, 3) up-selling and 4) food costs. The most efficient, easiest way to keep on top of these is through the right cloud-based software that will work with your POS system and be accessible on your mobile devices. read more via @bluemaumau