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Hotel Managers Labor to Control Labor

Posted Mon, 2012/01/23 - 11:28 by Robert Mandelbaum

Coming out of lodging industry recessions, we have historically observed fairly significant increases in hotel operating expenses.

Restaurants to Grow Slow, But Offer Healthy

Posted Wed, 2012/01/18 - 16:34 by BMM

CHICAGO — The restaurant industry in 2012 will continue a slow recovery.

Websites Go Dark in Protest of SOPA, PIPA

Posted Tue, 2012/01/17 - 16:25 by Marilee Hayes
Wired magazine is blackened with censors
Jan 18 cover of Wired Magazine

Two bills, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), have website publishers up in arms. They say that if enacted into law, they would be put in the impossible position of policing anything and everything posted on their website or be subject to draconian government penalties.

Big Biz Pledges $1.2B in Services to Startups

Posted Mon, 2012/01/09 - 03:11 by Dave Tanaka

For those who haven't found the right franchisor yet or are thinking that perhaps they'd be better off going it alone, the Startup America Partnership that Steve Case and Scott Case (no relationship) are spearheading may provide some help or inspiration.

Ai Weiwei: The Tweeting Artist

Posted Mon, 2012/01/02 - 10:54 by Don Sniegowski

BEIJING —As the developed world has slumped into a recession, franchising firms have increasingly looked into emerging markets for new opportunities of growth.

Shannon Liss-Riordan: Petite Sledgehammer

Posted Sat, 2011/12/31 - 02:12 by Don Sniegowski

BOSTON — An attorney in a boutique Boston law firm, Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC, has gone after giants and won.

Neal Aronson: The Private Equity Investor

Posted Sat, 2011/12/31 - 01:08 by Don Sniegowski

The years 2005-2008 were notable for a wave of private equity acquisitions. The 2010-2011 period will go down as the second wave.

Rod Sims: The Regulator

Posted Sat, 2011/12/31 - 00:25 by Don Sniegowski

CANBERRA, Australia — Whether it's Canada's new franchise law that kicked in at the beginning of 2011 in New Brunswick on its way to Manitoba, or America's new Business Opportu