Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. Clean Juice®, honored its franchise partners during its annual Juicey Awards event. Clean Juice Celebrates Franchisees. million guests. & State Rd.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

MRM's Franchise Feed features news on the restaurant franchise and MUFSO landscape. The group plans to grow both Ike’s and Bangin’ Buns through franchising starting in 2023. Habit Signs Franchise Development Deal. Wing Zone Refresh. Wing Zone is getting a new look, top photo. It is advancing its U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Renewed Optmism Ahead for Franchise Landscape The last five years have provided significant challenges to the restaurant franchise industry. Franchise 2.0: Meeting these consumer expectations and employee needs is pushing restaurant franchises towards artificial intelligence and automation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. Send news to Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com.

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Goliath Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

With all the trouble the pandemic has given the restaurant industry these past couple months, you might be surprised to hear that restaurant franchising opportunities have never been stronger. Up-and-coming restaurants like Fajita Pete recently announced it will triple locations from their new franchise deals (2). UNSTABLE WORKFORCE.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 26, 2021

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. In August 2020, educators across the country were the recipients of KFC’s second donation of one million pieces of chicken through KFC’s Back to School Buckets program.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. The new formats come on the heels of a major multi-unit franchise development strategy announced last month that is set to grow the brand to 2,000 units. QDOBA's New Concept.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. Curry Up Now will be the first restaurant is L2V’s portfolio and the investment will support the rapid growth and expansion of both corporate and franchised locations. "We

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. Tropical Smoothie Cafe signed two multi-unit franchise agreements to develop 38 new cafes across the state of Colorado, including a 27-unit deal and an 11-unit deal. . "My

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Goliath Consulting

MARCH 3, 2025

Education and Workforce Development State restaurant associations often provide training programs, certifications, and professional development resources to help restaurant teams grow. With advocacy, cost savings, networking, education, and crisis support, membership offers tools and connections that help restaurants thrive.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Restaurant workers today are expecting benefits that have not been historically offered in the industry such as health benefits, flexible scheduling, daily pay apps, and continuing education. What are some of your best tips for hiring the right people throughout a franchise operation?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In this episode of The Main Course , MRM Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia interviews Tarji Carter, Founder and President of The Franchise Player. Recognizing the lack of representation in franchising, shefounded The Franchise Player.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 9, 2020

Educating employees about transmission, risks and how to protect themselves can provide them with a sense of empowerment over the situation. From your company headquarters to your most distant company-owned or franchise location, your team is looking to senior leaders, including HR for measured guidance.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 2, 2024

As the demand for robotics increases, solutions like franchising and bringing robots closer to home will augment market growth and penetration. As the demand for robotics increases, solutions like franchising and bringing robots closer to home will augment market growth and penetration. How was the food sourced or produced?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Educating consumers about the benefits of sustainable ingredients can also foster understanding around pricing, making them more willing to pay a premium. The future of the industry lies in tech-enabled growth, cross-industry partnerships, and franchise expansion.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 25, 2022

While there’s no method that is 100% effective at preventing and eliminating new threats to businesses and their patrons, becoming familiarized with the way scammers work can save a business- whether its family-owned or a mega franchise- from taking a hit. What are QR scams and how do they work?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 28, 2020

At Church’s Chicken, we recently performed a comprehensive rebranding required communication to all of our domestic and international franchises, as well as all of their employees. Creating a vibrant community is difficult across all of our geographies, though vital to the organization’s success.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 7, 2020

Below are excerpts from my conversation with Landon Eckles , CEO & Co-Founder of Clean Juice , and Renee Israel , Chief Franchise Officer of Modern Restaurant Concepts , which features the Modern Market Eatery & Lemonade brands. Once we make decisions how do we communicate out to our franchise owners?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2022

There are significant differences in benefit structures between large operators versus small operators and franchise operators versus brand operators. Well-being programs such as Employee Assistance Plans (EAPs) are in consideration, as are financial literacy and education programs. percent in 2022, down from 7.0%.

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EATER

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For example, it helped Sonic burger franchise owner Spencer Hart install solar panels on the drive-in canopies at four of his Long Island locations. It takes a lot of education. Those panels now provide 35 to 40 percent of his electricity needs. Containers cost more upfront, but businesses start to save fairly quickly.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 23, 2024

For example, a manager in a jurisdiction with a curfew for teens under 18 would need to account for that when scheduling employees, while a manager at the same franchise in a different city might not. With this time freed up (and their minds at ease), they can invest more deeply in customer service and staff training.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

This is good news for restaurants, particularly chains and franchises that want to be environmentally sustainable while saving money in the process. Global demand for paper and cardboard is projected to grow by 1.2 percent a year, and the plastic recycling market by $14.74 billion by 2024. Source Separation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

With the acquisition of Johnny Rockets, FAT Brands will have more than 700 franchised and company owned restaurants around the globe with annual system-wide sales exceeding $700 million. The organization owns the Roy Rogers brand, as well as Marriott and Hilton franchises in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

DeliverThat also released an extensive driver education program to ensure the level of quality and safety during current Covid-19 conditions. We have listened to our partners over the last few months and this has resulted in extensive driver education, primary and secondary market expansions, and enhanced internal resources.”

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EATER

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Brands (owner of KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut) is giving time off to workers at company-owned locations and corporate employees — though considering the company is 98 percent franchised and whittled down its direct employees from 90,000 to 34,000 people between 2016 and 2019, that may not affect too many of the 1.5

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7 Shifts

JUNE 1, 2022

Restaurant Franchising and Innovation Summit. The opportunities and challenges that franchises face aren't always the same as their single-unit counterparts. This conference is dedicated to utilizing the resources that franchises have available to them to help franchisors ensure their franchisees succeed. When: March.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2020

“It has been heartwarming to see amazing acts of kindness throughout our system by our franchise owners, team members and customers over the last few weeks,” said Frances Allen, CEO of Checkers & Rally’s. " As of December 2019, the Feeding America network of food banks served about 40 million people a year. . "Subway's

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

The pandemic has permanently altered the consumer-restaurant relationship with operators investing in technology and real estate to align with changing consumer preferences, according to the 2021 Restaurant Franchise Pulse survey, conducted by TD Bank. " Restaurant real estate changes to align with consumer preference.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Rick Camac Dean, Restaurant & Hospitality Management at ICE (Institute of Culinary Education). Another important lesson that I learned, and I believe the industry learned, is that it pays to be a part of a family, such as the Greek from Greece Café Cuisine franchise family. Lavu CEO, Saleem S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In subsequent years, Hoeckendorf worked as the Director of Operations for a franchise organization with multiple brands including Krispy Kreme, Auntie Anne’s, Popeye’s Chicken, Schlotzsky’s, Tropical Smoothie Café, and Cinnabon. Kim Hoeckendorf. Make sure you have grit, tenacity and are always transparent.

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Goliath Consulting

JULY 28, 2020

Goliath Consulting Group offers management training and a host of other services for independent, chain and franchised restaurants. Conflict Resolution (Guest Relations). Conflict Resolution” refers to the way one resolves an issue or problem between two or more people (4). 9) [link]. (10) 10) [link]. (11) 11) [link]. (12) 12) [link].

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Goliath Consulting

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

For this to happen, leaders should “understand that the people within the organization are their best instruments to accomplish the mission they have at hand and by nurturing, developing and leading the team effectively,” said Christopher Conner, the president of Franchise Marketing Systems (6). A great work culture “starts at the top.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

Founded in 1969, The Habit Burger Grill operates nearly 300 company-owned and franchised restaurants across the United States and in China. ’s unmatched scale and strengths in franchising, purchasing and brand-building.” Brands’ global scale, resources and franchising capabilities. DSE Names Advisory Board.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 6, 2024

We have partnered with Budderfly to implement their EaaS offering, starting with 21 corporate-owned and 11 franchise locations of our Asian stir-fry bowl concept Genghis Grill. By investing in energy-efficient equipment and tech-enabled facilities, businesses can reduce utility bills and operational expenses over time.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

The training program is distributed to their Flex mobile app and educates hospitality workers on how to prevent acquiring and/or transmitting COVID-19. Restaurant enterprises and franchise owners can take advantage of this technology immediately as it does not require professional installation and is readily available.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Still, the core challenge in moving past the ethnic aisle is educating consumers about new products and, most importantly, how to use them. Marvel , a Marvel franchise built around a Pakistani superhero. How do we create a brand that resonates with all these different people, educating at the same time about South Asian culture?”

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Rick Camac, Dean of Restaurant & Hospitality Management at the Institute of Culinary Education. Brooklyn Dumpling House just opened and they're already franchising the idea. Operators should gravitate towards technology to automate inventory and track costs and sales to determine the best course of action.

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