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October 6th, 2008

Franchises for Pet Lovers: FETCH! Pet Care

Related stories: New Pet Waste Cleanup and Removal Franchise
New In-home Pet Care Franchise
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New Pet Care Franchise
Top New Franchises is featuring Franchise Opportunities for Pet Lovers this week.  Among those featured is the rapidly growing FETCH! Pet Care franchise.
FETCH! Pet Care reports that it continues to expand at […]

By Sean Kelly -- 0 comments

September 17th, 2008

OUTDOOR CONNECTION FRANCHISE: Looking for a Few Good Hunters

(Franchise Pick)  Outdoor Connection is a unique niche franchise opportunity “targeting” outdoorsmen.  If you’re an avid hunter, fisherman or Alaskan hockey mom, this is a franchise worth dreaming about.  Outdoor Connection franchisees arrange hunting and fishing trips and other outdoor activities.  What a great way to write-off that new 30:06 on your taxes.
I discovered Outdoor […]

By Sean Kelly -- 6 comments

September 8th, 2008

QUIZNOS: Franchisees Cite Reasons for Franchise Failure

(FranchisePick.Com)  From:  QUIZNOS: Saratoga Franchisees Call it Quits
Thank you to our valued customers, but due to economic hardships beyond our control we are now closed.
The sign was taped to the door Friday after the Saratoga Springs, NY Quiznos served the last customer of its 2 1/2 year run.  The four partners in the franchise venture […]

By Sean Kelly -- 2 comments

September 4th, 2008

TANWORLD FRANCHISE: Tanning Reinvented in the Tropics of Nebraska

(FranchisePick.Com)  At first blush it might seem odd for a tropical tanning chain to be based, of all places, in Omaha, Nebraska.
At second blush, it makes sense.  After all, the tropics don’t need tanning salons.  They’ve got… the tropics.
The Midwest has got cornfields… and Tanworld.
Astronomy not being one of my stronger suits, I hadn’t heard […]

By Sean Kelly -- 0 comments

July 30th, 2008

Is McDonald’s Funding a "naked homosex-fest"?

 

(FranchisePick.Com) According to this report(McDonald’s profits help fund naked homosex-fest) on WorldNetDaily.com, the American Family Association (AFA) is “ramping up the pressure on McDonald’s for its decision to fully promote the homosexual lifestyle and condemn people who object on moral and religious grounds as haters.”
In a new alert to its millions of supporters, the […]

By Sean Kelly -- 32 comments

July 20th, 2008

Dream Diets? Should Meal Prep Convert to Weight Loss Kitchens?

Unhappy Franchisee reader and ex-Dream Dinners customer Jennifer recounts the reason she no longer goes to Dream Dinners, but goes to a non-franchised meal prep kitchen instead. In complaining about the shrinking portion size, she sparks the idea that could save the meal assembly concept: Perhaps meal assembly places like Dream Dinners should […]

By Sean Kelly -- 0 comments

July 15th, 2008

Cuppy’s Coffee Franchisees: Show Some Gratitude!

What’s the fuss about Cuppy’s Coffee? This’ll get you up to speed: CUPPY’S COFFEE, Java Jo’z, Elite Manufacturing, Medina Blogliography
Cuppy’s Coffee franchisees: Enough is enough! There’s been a lot of whining and snivelling around here lately from Cuppy’s Coffee franchisees (or “depositers” as we call them. Or “Involuntary Investors”).
I paid […]

By Sean Kelly -- 4 comments

July 3rd, 2008

Have You Attended a Franchise Discovery Day?

Have you ever attended a franchise discovery day presentation?
If you have, please share your experience for an upcoming feature.
Where was it held?
Was it what you expected?
Was it a good way to learn about the franchise opportunity?
Were you more or less interested in joining the franchise after attending?
Did you buy a franchise after attending a franchise […]

By Sean Kelly -- 1 comment

June 30th, 2008

Research Report Findings: U.S. Affluent Market

Research & Markets has released its Spring Survey of the Richest Americans. So for those of you who are interested in how my friends at the club and I are doing, here you go.
The participants of this national survey included 467 men and women in households with an average annual income of $315,600, […]

By Sean Kelly -- 0 comments

April 4th, 2008

Today’s Franchise Pic: Cleopatra’s Value Meal

(FranchisePick.com franchise blog) Could Big Macs be the lost secret ingredient to McMummification?

Pictured: Detail of a McDonald’s® billboard in Basel City, Canton of Basel-City, Switzerland.
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By Sean Kelly -- 7 comments