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Informative articles to support business buyers, franchisees, and franchisors in California.

Multi-unit partners diversify holdings with new agreement to open 7 Dave’s Hot Chicken locations in Pennsylvania markets.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 6,409 Reads 5 Shares
QSR multi-brand operator signs 18-unit area development agreement with Hoots Wings in the Southern California market.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 3,652 Reads 4 Shares
Two multi-brand franchisees sign agreements to bring new Blaze Pizza locations to Alaska and California.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 3,809 Reads 6 Shares
Pieology opens its first U.K. restaurant as a gateway to further expansion in Europe
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,970 Reads 3 Shares
Carl’s Jr. announces a new master franchise agreement to expand its presence in Australia
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 5,695 Reads 3 Shares
A roundup of consumer marketing news and developments
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 2,381 Reads
7 multi-unit operators share their experiences on raising capital during the pandemic
  • Sara Wykes
  • 7,374 Reads 37 Shares
As the global economy begins to bounce back from Covid, so do overseas deals for franchise brands
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 6,251 Reads 3 Shares
Is the additional money unemployed workers are receiving acting as a disincentive to them returning to work?
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 5,404 Reads 45 Shares
In this final installment of a special 3-part series, a veteran franchise attorney offers the last 5 of 10 tips on how to read an FDD critically
  • Rochelle Spandorf
  • 4,936 Reads 17 Shares
The 2021 Multi-Brand 50 ranking highlights the largest franchisees in the U.S. and their 25 favorite brands.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 18,175 Reads 81 Shares
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Seeking more time with his newborn daughter, Matt Pendleton left his high-stress job with a restaurant franchisor and today owns 3 Screenmobile locations
  • Franchise Update Media
  • 3,425 Reads 28 Shares
Welcome to "Good (and Other) News!" – our monthly roundup of franchise growth, finance, expansion, regulation, legislation, technology, trends, people, milestones, and other news about franchisors large, medium, merging, and emerging.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 2,302 Reads 1 Shares
Q&A with Greg Flynn following his acquisition of NPC International’s Wendy’s and Pizza Huts in the largest franchisee deal ever
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 5,794 Reads 284 Shares
Three multi-unit franchisees, with a total of 10 different food brands between them, tell how Covid has changed their business and how they’ve responded
  • Franchise Update Media
  • 2,677 Reads 4 Shares
Longtime Edible multi-unit operator in California opens unique ghost kitchen location to enhance area delivery and shipping support.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 2,920 Reads 29 Shares
A roundup of consumer marketing news and developments 4 months into 2021.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 2,617 Reads 1 Shares
Welcome to "Good (and Other) News!" - our monthly roundup of franchise growth, finance, expansion, regulation, legislation, technology, trends, people, milestones, and other news about franchisors large, medium, merging, and emerging.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,176 Reads 3 Shares
Restaurant industry multi-unit operator diversifies by signing three-unit deal to bring Capriotti’s Sandwich Shops to Fresno.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 3,765 Reads 10 Shares
One of El Pollo Loco’s largest operators agrees to open 3 more locations in Southern California.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 7,056 Reads 6 Shares
7 multi-unit operators discuss their growth (or non-growth) plans for 2021
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 2,152 Reads 1 Shares
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Blaze Pizza multi-unit operator signs agreement to open 20 Dave’s Hot Chicken locations in Central California.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 3,960 Reads 19 Shares
2021’s Mega 99 list ranks the country’s largest multi-unit franchisee by unit count, including their brands
  • Ritwik Donde 
  • 14,513 Reads 26 Shares
30-year-old Wasif Saddique, who learned the ropes growing up in his uncle’s restaurants, now operates two Wayback Burgers and is gunning for more
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 4,844 Reads 9 Shares
Robby Basati rises from delivery driver to franchisee and area development agent for Mountain Mike’s Pizza
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 8,161 Reads 62 Shares
1Heart Caregiver Services CEO Belina Calderon-Nernberg on the ups and downs of home health care during Covid
  • Franchise Update Media
  • 3,491 Reads
What happened at November’s FTC Rule workshop, and what changes might be in store for FDDs and FPRs?
  • Joyce Mazero and Jan Gilbert
  • 6,991 Reads 15 Shares
Covid-19 is changing everything – here are 5 ways it’s affecting data-driven advertising
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 4,291 Reads 21 Shares
California entrepreneur opens another Pizza Guys restaurant as business booms during pandemic.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 4,063 Reads 12 Shares
California’s AB-5 bill faces lawsuit from the IFA and franchisee associations seeking to exclude franchising
  • Jess Dance and Emily Doan
  • 6,343 Reads 15 Shares

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