The most common business models in the restaurant industry are for franchised and company-operated restaurants. Let's look at the franchise model in closer detail. Restaurants have successfully ...

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In the last part of this series, we looked at the franchise model. Let’s now take a look at the company-operated restaurant model. In a company-owned restaurant, the company is responsible for every ...

Potbelly Sandwich Shops has taken significant steps to transition from a corporate store model to a robust franchise system. Lynette McKee, CFE and Senior Vice President of Franchising at Potbelly is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black food entrepreneurs have always done more with less: flipping recipes, reclaiming space, and serving culture one plate at a ...

The kitchens were busy, loud, and expensive to keep running. By the time Kimberly Yao reached her late twenties, she had already seen how difficult it was to grow a food business the traditional way.

Restaurant models are generally imperfect. Ninety-nine percent of the time there are clear negatives to every model. As an example, let’s talk about the traditional model for a coffee business. The ...

Alarm bells should be ringing for casual dining restaurants, large and small, because an unstoppable wave of disruption is coming. They will soon find themselves in a price war with U.K. tech startup ...