The debt-free chain, roughly 50% company owned and 50% franchised, earns very high management marks, too.
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French restaurants are already angry that they pay higher rates of VAT than their franchised counterparts.
The biggest obstacle to these co-branded or franchised offerings is the danger of brand dilution.
Over the next 40 years she opened 32 owned and franchised stores around Los Angeles.
Today the business has 94 fully owned stores and three franchised stores around the world.
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As of June 26, 2012, Texas Roadhouse operated 309 company-owned and 72 franchised restaurants.
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At the moment there are three dozen such franchised condo buildings under way.
Globalized chicken wings, pizza and sodas have food fundamentalists fretting over cultural domination and protesting franchised fare.
Sales at franchised stores were down 27%, mainly because its major franchisee went into administration last year.
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The proportion of franchised restaurants, as a percentage of total restaurants, has been rising in recent years.
Creativity is about personal, individual potential and, like social communications, it is franchised to all of us.
One operates a luxury touring-bus company, while another runs a growing, franchised moving and junk-removal business.
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Same store sales increased by 0.3% upside at company-owned restaurants while its franchised restaurants experienced a 0.2% increase.
MPs concluded that most franchised courses do teach useful skills, to workers who might not otherwise be retrained.
Since these initial communications, Onity agreed to extend the following offer to Marriott-managed and franchised hotels with Onity locks.
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This evolved into a worldwide chain of franchised schools of music, many with a showroom for Yamaha musical instruments.
Today, 72% of the company's 2, 221 locations are franchised, up from only 22% of its 2, 006 restaurants in 2004.
Only 36 of its 1, 400 restaurants were franchised at the end of 2011.
The tension over the recession-driven deals highlights one of the conundrums franchised businesses like fast food must grapple with.
In the meantime, I hope you will support your locally owned, non-franchised restaurants.
Of course only a small sliver of that went back to Kinkade, who had a fleet of franchised art galleries.
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Since that time Phillips has opened three company-owned locations of the Lash Lounge in the Lonestar state and franchised four more.
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Maintaining the current franchised to company-owned ratio of 80%, there would be 32, 400 franchise units and 8, 100 company owned units by 2019.
The industry research firm FranData recently estimated multi-unit operators own more than one-third of all franchised restaurants over 150, 000 locations.
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Stores (both owned and franchised) keep costs low by supplementing the work of paid managers with the efforts of 4, 000 volunteers nationwide.
Roughly 92% of Burger King's units already are franchised, a figure that takes into account one large refranchising deal completed last month.
It increased the sales at existing company-owned stores 9.2% in the first quarter compared to a year earlier, and 7.3% at franchised restaurants.
Bouchard has been rejiggering convenience stores since he stocked his first shelf at 19 at his brother's franchised Perrette store in Bois-des-Filion, Quebec.
The company, a fast-growing casual-dining chain and a leader in the grill and bar space, operates 700 company-owned and franchised restaurants across 41 states.
Soderquist was in charge of data processing at Ben Franklin, a chain of retail stores owned by individual proprietors and franchised by the company.
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