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Subway Café provides a different franchising option
	As Subway Restaurants moved past McDonald's this year to take over the global unit count top spot, a much smaller concept under the brand's umbrella has continued to grow at a much slower pace. Subway Café, the brainchild of franchisee Larry …
ISI named exclusive seating, dÃ©cor provider for McDonald's Canada
Milwaukee-based Interior Systems Inc. is playing a large role in McDonald's ongoing reimaging program. ISI has been a key supplier of these new interior designs, manufacturing and installing the new seating and dÃ©cor packages for …
Burger King expands redesign efforts globally
Burger King Corp. continues to grow the number of stores undergoing its 20/20 design transformation with the recent grand reopening of the Schiphol Airport store in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The new store design is an example of the company's …
West Coast Subways to try upscale look
A Subway franchisee in Huntington Beach, Calif., has redesigned his latest store with the addition of sofas, a fireplace and flat screen TVs to entice customers to relax and eat in, according to a story on the O.C. Register's Fast Food Maven blog …
QSRs adopt fast casual lessons
	Subway recently passed its 30,000 unit mark, and many of those stores are going into nontraditional locations, such as hospitals and even hardware stores. One nontraditional store is a new concept aimed at moving into the fast casual segment, the …
Culver's Blue Spoon could herald new chain
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The Blue Spoon Cafe opened recently in Middleton, Wis., as Culver's second upscale casual-dining restaurant. The restaurant, named for the blue plastic dinnerware used at Culver's, could be a prototype for a new chain …
Cousin's Subs starts restaurant revamp
MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. — Two Cousins Subs stores in Wauwatosa and Glendale, Wis., are adding flat-screen televisions as part of Cousins Subs' remodeling efforts to create a more contemporary look in stores. The 32-inch flat-screen televisions …
Sweet sophistication
	Walk into any Arby's or McDonald's these days and you will likely be greeted by an unusual sight. Gone are the shiny plastic seats and fluorescent lights, replaced instead by tasteful fixtures and warm fabrics in hues of rust, brown and red. It …
U.S. appetite for fast-food grows, study says
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Despite criticism of fast-food by consumer advocacy groups and news stories warning about an obesity epidemic, QSR usage is up significantly, according to a national study of 2,400 QSR users interviewed in 2005. In fact …

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