Franchising News & Media
Cold Stone opens 100th international store
August 18, 2008
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Cold Stone Creamery has announced the super-premium ice cream concept has reached two milestones in its international expansion after just…
read nowDunkin' Donuts plans stores in Krispy Kreme hometown
August 18, 2008
Winston-Salem Journal: Franchisees for Dunkin' Donuts, the nation's largest coffee-and-doughnut franchise, plan to bring at least 13 stores to Forsyth and…
read nowBrazil Fast Food comps up more than 7 percent
August 17, 2008
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Comparable-store sales at Brazil Fast Food Corp., the second-largest fast-food restaurant chain in Brazil, increased 7.1 percent for…
read nowDunkin Donuts, Baskin-Robbins end co-branding
August 14, 2008
Jacksonville Business Journal: Future Northeast Florida Baskin-Robbins locations won't share space with Dunkin' Donuts. For several years, most of the Dunkin…
read nowKanye West to open Chicago Fatburger
August 14, 2008
Chicago Business: Hip-hop artist Kanye West's KW Foods LLC, which has rights to develop 10 Fatburgers in the Chicago area, plans to open its first area…
read nowBurger King opens 1,000th store in Latin America
August 13, 2008
MIAMI — Burger King Corp. has announced that it now has 1,000 restaurants open in the Latin America and Caribbean region. The region's 1,000th restaurant…
read nowDunkin' Donuts event raises $800K for cancer research
August 13, 2008
BELLINGHAM, Mass. — New England-area Dunkin' Donuts store owners on Aug. 11, 2008, raised just over $800,000 for a regional charity. The owners participated…
read nowSubway honors Calif. brothers' development work
August 12, 2008
MILFORD, Conn. — The Subway restaurant chain has announced it has named Raghu and Rohit Marwaha, of Los Angeles, as the recipients of its 2008 Development…
read nowCinnabon moves into London's Piccadilly Circus
August 11, 2008
ATLANTA — Cinnabon Inc. has announced the opening of its first United Kingdom bakery, located in London at Trocadero Mall in the world-famous Piccadilly…
read nowKrispy Kreme signs Malaysia franchise development deal
August 7, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. has entered into a franchise agreement with Berjaya Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Sdn Bhd in Malaysia for the…
read nowDunkin' Donuts announces 100+ new Houston stores
August 6, 2008
CANTON, Mass. — Dunkin' Donuts has announced the signing of two multiunit-store-development agreements for 107 new restaurants in Houston. The agreement…
read nowArby's inks NY development deal
August 5, 2008
ATLANTA — Arby's Restaurant Group Inc. has signed an agreement with Charles Chera of RCNY Restaurants LLC for the development of 41 new Arby's restaurants…
read nowBaskin-Robbins announces China expansion
July 31, 2008
CANTON, Mass. — Baskin-Robbins has announced plans to open its first store in Shanghai, China, with a total of 100 new locations planned over the next 10 years…
read nowDunkin' Donuts top chain in NYC survey
July 31, 2008
Crain's New York Business: Dunkin' Donuts has more stores in New York City than any other national retail chain, according to a study by the Center for an…
read nowBurger King names 1st Suriname franchisees
July 30, 2008
MIAMI — Burger King Corp. has announced that it has awarded development rights in Suriname, in northern South America, to the following franchise developers…
read nowTaco Maker HQ to move to Orlando area
July 30, 2008
Orlando Sentinel: Puerto Rican-owned The Taco Maker plans to move its headquarters to Central Florida from Ogden, Utah, by the fall as part of a growth…
read nowFranchisees sue Burger King over hours
July 30, 2008
South Florida Business Journal: Four South Florida-based Burger King franchisees are suing Burger King Corp. over the company's demands for extended hours at…
read nowLA council votes to ban new fast food restaurants
July 29, 2008
Google/Associated Press: The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously July 29, 2008, to place a moratorium on new fast food restaurants in impoverished South…
read nowKrispy Kreme awards Istanbul development rights
July 28, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. has announced that it has entered into a franchise agreement with Almana Yiyecek Ve Icecek San. Ve. Tic Ltd.
read nowBurger King releases underage workers
July 27, 2008
KPTM 42 News (Omaha): Burger King Corp. has released more than 200 teen workers at the Iowa and Nebraska restaurants it recently purchased from an Omaha-based…
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