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Baskin Robbins Goes Soft…Serve?

Bruce Horovitz reports in USA Today that Baskin-Robbins, the world’s largest ice cream chain, will announce plans to sell soft-serve ice cream, a risky marketing move that it has resisted since its founding 62 years ago. With ice cream industry sales down in recent years — and stagnant the past decade — the chain is [...]

DDIFO Announces New Board of Directors

The DD Independent Franchise Owners, Inc. (DDIFO), a NEFA Member and which represents the largest association of Dunkin’ Donuts franchise owners in the U.S., is announcing the creation of a new board of directors to better serve all Dunkin’ Donuts franchisees. DDIFO President Mark Dubinsky says, “This new board, comprised of five well-respected professionals, is perfectly [...]

FREE Iced Coffee at Dunkin Donuts

QSR Magazine reported that Dunkin’ Donuts is celebrating Free Iced Coffee Day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. next Thursday, May 15. Customers can walk into any participating Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant throughout the country and receive a free 16 oz. cup of Dunkin’ Donuts’ premium regular, Berry Berry Iced Coffee, which combines the seasonal [...]

Papa John’s Pizza chaos nets $37,500 in donations

Katie Byard reported at Ohio.com that participating Papa John’s stores — in the Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, Youngstown and Columbus areas — served an estimated 75,000 pies during the one-day promotion Thursday. The offer — an apology for a franchisee’s insult lobbed at Cavaliers star LeBron James — resulted in long lines and lots of publicity for [...]

Greatest Franchising Entrepreneurs of All Time

In its recent issue Success Magazine published a list of the 50 Greatest Entrepreneurs of all time. On that list were two franchising entrepreneurs: Ray Kroc 1902-1984 Ray Kroc died in 1984, just a few short months before McDonald’s sold its 50 billionth hamburger. One of the most well known success stories [...]

Co-founder of Baskin-Robbins ice cream franchise stores dies at 90

The Associated Press reports that the man who helped build the 31-flavor craze at ice cream store Baskin-Robbins has died at age 90. Irvine Robbins died Monday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Daughter Marsha Veit says he had been in ill for some time. Generations of kids trooped to Baskin-Robbins stores to buy ice [...]

SBA Extends New SOP Effective Date

The following Information has been provided by Barbara Arena,CIT Small Business Lending Corporation, 781-294-2244 barbara.arena@cit.com www.cit.com SBA has decided that in light of issues raised during the meetings held across the country with lenders and CDCs, they will extend the effective date — which was to have been May 1 — by 45 days, to [...]

Papa Gino’s Signs First Franchise Agreement

Papa Gino’s, NEFA Member and a venerable New England pizza chain, has signed an agreement with the brand’s first-ever franchisee. "We have been serving New England for over 40 years, but this agreement creates an opportunity for individual investors to become involved with our business model and allows us to grow our brand recognition," [...]

Does the Papa John’s Franchise System Dislike Lebron James?

My friend, The Franchise King, has been playing defense regarding the actions of a Papa John’s franchisee. At the last Cleveland Cavaliers and Washington Wizards playoff game, a Papa John’s franchisee from Washington, D.C. area took it upon themselves to make up t-shirts featuring Lebron James’ number with the word “crybaby” etched above it instead [...]

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