Today's news for the franchise & small biz owner

Wendy’s launched a bolder, brighter, and more interactive Wendys.com, which—after a complete overhaul—is much more friendly for those on smartphones and tablets.

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With a new look and style that reflects the honest truths inherent in one of America’s most beloved brands, the Dairy Queen system will unveil a new advertising campaign on Memorial Day, the unofficial kick-off of summer, that focuses on the theme of Fan Food. Not fast food.

Created by Barkley, the Dairy Queen system’s new agency of record, the campaign will come to life through all consumer touch points, including television, radio, print, in-store, online, social media, and team member training.

 

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Foodservice equipment designer and manufacturer Henny Penny Corporation hired Benjamin Leingang to be the company’s new corporate chef. Chef Leingang comes to Henny Penny from Compass Group North America, a foodservice management company. Most recently, Chef Leingang managed all aspects of foodservice for Honda Manufacturing of North America; this role encompassed multiple on-site cafes, as well as numerous corporate functions and employee events.

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The 94th annual National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show and 6th annual International Wine, Spirits & Beer Event (IWSB), recently held at Chicago’s McCormick Place on May 18­–21, posted positive growth in both attendee and exhibitor numbers. As the most comprehensive trade show for the foodservice industry, NRA Show 2013 addressed the issues that mattered most to attendees, including sustainability, health care, kids’ nutrition, technology, and more.

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In the high-tech and retail worlds, there is a small group of marketers who seem to believe that they control branding and that even after decades of use, pronunciations and nicknames can be changed by marketing dictate. These people are what is known in retail IT circles as "Wrong. Dead Wrong. Absolutely and forever wrong and they were never even the teensiest bit right." (IT knows not nuance.)

What brings this up is the recent debate—best articulated by our friends at The New York Times—about whether the graphical standard GIF should be pronounced as a homonym with Jif, the peanut butter. (Never quite understood the campaign "Choosy Mothers Choose Jif." Did that mean that less uptight, less anal-retentive mothers chose Skippy? But I digress.) For decades—since 1987—it's been pronounced with a hard G, as in the word graphic. Seems that Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the popular graphic approach back when he worked at CompuServe, now has opted for the peanut-butter pronunciation.

As the National Restaurant Show lumbered into its third day, GrubHub and Seamless, two leading online ordering providers for independent restaurants, awakened the industry with a major announcement …

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On Thursday, May 23rd, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie joined Margaritaville and Resorts principals on the Boardwalk for a ribbon cutting ...

More hotels are throwing barbecues to boost business and give guests a smoking good time.

On this demand and downloadable episode, Editor-In-Chief Glenn Haussman is in Los Angeles at Choice Hotels International’s Annual Conference and also ...

The DoubleTree by Hilton Omaha Downtown Hotel and Executive Meeting Center has completed a 20-million dollar renovation which is being widely ...

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [LON: IHG, NYSE: IHG (ADRs)] one of the world’s largest hotel companies, announces the opening of the ...

Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) has expanded the Caribbean options in its worldwide portfolio with the addition of its first member ...

Sanderling Resort, the AAA four-diamond property that re-opened May 1 in the Outer Banks, welcomes new Chef de Cuisine John Lawrence ...

The Lodge and Spa at Callaway Gardens, an elegant interpretation of a traditional mountain lodge in the heart of middle Georgia, ...

Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago announces Valeria Benner as the new Executive Chef of the 306-room historic hotel.  Chef Benner will oversee ...

Can the coattails of Fast and Furious 6 and its young, devoted male fans give a boost to Dodge Dart sales? Chrysler Group is counting on it.

Cups Frozen Yogurt, a beach-themed, self-serve fro-yo concept, will open its second franchise location on Thursday, May 23, in Parsippany, New Jersey.

To celebrate the grand opening, Cups Parsippany will be offering free frozen yogurt from 4 to 7 p.m. on May 23.

Also, during the grand-opening week, each Parsippany customer will be given a scratch-off card, which contains prizes such as wristbands, beach balls, water bottles, beach towels, and Cups coupons. One winner will receive free fro-yo for a year.

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Starting in September, dealers will be allowed to post used vehicles on AutoTrader.com with Experian Automotive's AutoCheck vehicle history reports in addition to reports from Carfax.

Activist stakeholders call for reports on compensation, nutrition and human rights

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Smithfield’s Chicken ‘N Bar-B-Q is celebrating the success of the fundraising chapter of the St. Baldrick's Foundation, known as “The Bald Entrepreneurs”—a group of small business owners and community leaders based in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

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