Crisp & Green founder Steele Smiley is launching another healthy franchise, but this time it’s a plant-based, fast-casual burger restaurant called Stalk & Spade which he hopes to rapidly expand via franchising.
The latest round of COVID-19 relief is being considered in the Senate and expected to be passed soon. If the new round goes into effect, it would send another round of $1,400 checks to about 150 million people.
As we explored in the March issue of Franchise Times, honing delivery profitability is no simple trick.
After fighting for more than a year to get restitution for Burgerim franchisees including himself, Joey McCullough was on one hand pleased with the February 16 order from a California regulatory agency that the burger franchisor had to pay back franchisees.
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Tim Lightner, who owns four Two Men and A Truck locations in Wisconsin, shares how he found success as an “essential” business operator in 2020, including acquiring another location during a pandemic.
Regulators in California slapped Burgerim with a desist and refrain order and said the burger franchise must offer rescission, meaning cancel contracts, to all franchisees, refund fees collected and “financially place the franchisees in the position they were in before they entered into the franchise agreement.”
Like most businesses, City Wide Facilities Solutions had a tumultuous 2020. In what was already set to be a year of change, including a rebranding and tweaks to lay a foundation for further growth, the COVID-19 pandemic was a major curveball.
Americans are consumers, pointed out Eric Miller, “and we never throw stuff away—we store it. You drive through the suburbs and people don’t park in their garage because it’s full of stuff.”
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