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California Feature Articles

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

CRE pros look ahead to 2023, Beyond Meat to sublease 50,000+ s.f. as sales decline, how the pandemic changed restaurant real estate, Chili’s shuts delivery-only test in Texas
  • Eddy Goldberg
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Service brand franchises continue to strike new deals across all sectors in early 2023
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,030 Reads 3 Shares
Headwinds ahead for closing deals as M&A activity faces multiple obstacles in the coming year; opportunities still abound
  • Carty
  • 4,730 Reads 25 Shares
4 articles on employment and hiring trends to help you cope with the tight job market
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 4,601 Reads 13 Shares
Our January roundup of international franchise news includes Puerto Rico, France, China, Hungary, the U.K., Cambodia, and more
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 7,346 Reads 5 Shares
Beyond the tragedy of California’s flooding, someone has to clean it up, a giant opportunity for franchise service brands
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,020 Reads
Mega deal will see Cedar Tree Restaurant Group add more than 80 Jack in The Box restaurants in Southeastern markets
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 6,101 Reads 2 Shares
Service brand franchises continue to strike new deals across all sectors as 2022 draws to a close
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,137 Reads 4 Shares
Looking to expand? First get your house in order—which means having not just the best financing, but the best people in place
  • Colleen McMillar
  • 6,031 Reads 2 Shares
Service brand franchises continue to strike new deals across all sectors as 2022 winds down
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,893 Reads 4 Shares
Petition to recall California’s FAST Act appears to have gathered enough signatures to appear on the 2024 ballot
  • The International Franchise Association
  • 3,491 Reads 3 Shares
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Who's dominating in their markets and regions? See our 2022 Dominators rankings to find out!
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 1,714 Reads 2 Shares
Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop multi-unit operator adds Wing Zone location to her portfolio in California
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 3,096 Reads 14 Shares
Looking for a recession-resistant brand? Take a look at pet training and care
  • Mark Van Wye
  • 4,659 Reads 15 Shares
Our November roundup of international franchise expansion reports on deals in Costa Rica, India, Canada, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Asia
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 4,487 Reads 11 Shares
Multi-unit, multi-brand companies (MUMBOs) expand worldwide at both franchisor and franchisee organizations
  • William Edwards 
  • 6,860 Reads 6 Shares
Jersey Mike’s multi-unit franchisee in Texas signs three-unit development agreement with Mountain Mike’s Pizza
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 4,170 Reads 2 Shares
Our October roundup of consumer experience–related news, trends, and other developments!
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,302 Reads 2 Shares
Get involved in the effort to roll back California’s FAST Recovery Act now, before it spreads to other states.
  • Matt Haller
  • 5,717 Reads 12 Shares
Our October roundup of consumer marketing news, trends, and other developments!
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 4,415 Reads
The power of local marketing continues to fuel profits for these franchisees
  • Sara Wykes
  • 7,244 Reads 14 Shares
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Learn how five of Franchise Update’s 2022 MVPs hire, fire, train, and retain employees
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 5,410 Reads
California multi-brand franchisee to open another 20 WaBa Grill locations from Fresno to Sacramento
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 6,349 Reads 2 Shares
Business coalition forms to roll back California’s FAST Act (AB 257), which threatens fast food brands in the state
  • Franchise Update Media
  • 6,250 Reads 12 Shares
Joint-employer standard would be expanded under the latest NLRB proposal 
  • Calfee, Halter & Griswold
  • 7,030 Reads 3 Shares
Our September roundup of consumer marketing news, trends, and other developments!
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 6,031 Reads 1 Shares
2022 Veteran Entrepreneurship MVP Doug Porter’s career path has included the U.S. Navy as a pilot and serving as CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities in Chicago
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 7,349 Reads 3 Shares
Welcome to “Good, Bad, 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
  • 4,497 Reads 4 Shares
Multi-unit Yum! Brands franchisee adding another 7 Habit Burger Grill restaurants and 2 food trucks to his portfolio.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 6,348 Reads 2 Shares
Tennessee multi-unit operator is the latest to sign a development agreement with Shaquille O’Neal’s Big Chicken brand
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 7,169 Reads 4 Shares

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