GREENSBURG Pa. Unique Pizza and Subs Corp. has agreed to sell franchise rights for 115 namesake units throughout Texas for $2 million, payable in weekly installments by buyer Unique Franchise Operations Inc. The arrangement allows Austin...
JACKSONVILLE Fla. Khalil Elbanna, a longtime Shoney’s franchisee in Florida and Georgia, is suing Nashville, Tenn.-based Captain D’s Seafood for alleged racial discrimination. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court here Friday, alleges...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Papa John’s is dropping its franchise fee for a limited time in certain markets, the company’s website said. According to the website, the deal applies to California, Connecticut and New Jersey, along with the designated...
OAK BROOK Ill. McDonald’s is featuring past winners of its Monopoly promotion in TV spots and on packaging for the first time to encourage participation in this year’s game, which will run through Oct. 29. The chain said it’s using the...
ATLANTA BBAC LLC, the investor group that plans to buy Back Yard Burgers in a $38 million deal, has extended to Oct. 31 the expiration of its committed financing with Regions Bank and Harbert Mezzanine Partners II LLC. BBAC said it wants to...
If ever there were a time for restaurants to engage TV viewers with a memorable ad character, this could be it.Nielsen Media Research recently reported that only a third of TV viewers could recall any commercials they saw, based on findings from...
An ad campaign can raise brand awareness among consumers, but can it make the brand more attractive to investors who want to own it?Livy Miller, executive creative director of Seiter & Miller, Smith & Wollensky’s ad agency, believes the work his...
SAN ANTONIO Activist investor and Western Sizzlin chairman Sardar Biglari criticized what he called Steak n Shake’s "failed vision, failed strategy, failed execution, and failed board" in a letter on Monday to the company’s shareholders. ...
DUBLIN, OHIO —Amid Wendy’s franchisees’ uncertainties about the future ownership of the brand, the angry operators of more than 1,100 branches of the No. 3 burger chain have blamed the Dublin-based...
