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April 28, 2011
April 27, 2011
McDonald's Skinner Sells $10-mil. in Shares
While his tenants spend their retirement nest eggs remodeling the McDonald's REIT
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Starbucks Passes Burger King, Wendy's for No. 3 Spot
Thanks, in part, to McDonald's franchisee ad spending against espresso drinks
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Preparing for Inflation - A Forbes Blog Network
"Inflation is a completely new experience to many current business owners, as we have not had high rates of inflation in almost 30 years. Watch your margins carefully. Worry about growing profits, not just your sales."
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April 23, 2011
Seismic Shift in Franchisees Seeking Balance
"Franchisees also want audited disclosures on vendor kickbacks. Kickbacks from a vendor to a franchisor can significantly raise the price of goods to franchisees, and they are typically undisclosed. They act as a hidden royalty fee."
Seismic Shift in Franchisees Seeking Balance | BlueMauMau
April 22, 2011
April 21, 2011
MCD Execs Sacrifice Operator Margins For Traffic
for the long-term," McDonald's Chief Financial Officer Peter Bensen said Thursday
on a conference call.
Some one should tell Pete that the franchisees set the menu prices, or do they?
Easy for him to spout off since there are far fewer McOpCos.
On menu pricing - I keep hearing that McDonald's regional bureaucrats are
urging Operators to "not repeat the mistakes of 2008". Apparently the Operator
is then supposed to hang their head and feel guilty about being opportunistic the
last time we had food inflation.
But this is the usual revisionist history, or a sign of high turnover in the McDonald's
executive ranks. The truth is that 2008 saw some back door increases but that
was also the middle year of three annual Federal minimum wage increases, along
with many state minimums.
I submit raising the minimum wage from $5.15 in June 2007 to $6.55 in July 2008
was the cause of menu price increases far more than food inflation (or greedy
franchisees).
So you might educate the corporate types HERE'S a link to the D.O.L. history :
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McDonald's Raises Food Inflation Predictions
It said it now expects food costs to rise between 4 and 4.5 percent in the United States and Europe this year. In January, McDonald's said it expected its food costs to rise 2 percent to 2.5 percent this year in the United States.
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April 20, 2011
GOLDSTEIN LAW GROUP - National Franchise Law
In this 15 min. video attorney Jeff Goldstein pitches his law firm but
also provides an interesting update on the state of franchise law in
the USA. Worth a watch for any franchisee.
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April 19, 2011
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April 14, 2011
30 Year Low in Americans Working?
"The share of the population that is working fell to its lowest level last year since women started entering the workforce in large numbers three decades ago"
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McDonald's LatAm Franchisee Rises 26 Percent
At least one McDonald's franchisee is building equity!
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April 12, 2011
World's Largest McDonald's Franchisee
Bloomberg reports HERE
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April 11, 2011
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April 8, 2011
Burger King Pulls Plug on Redesign
Burger King CEO John Chidsey announced a grandiose plan to remodel all 12,000+ Burger Kings worldwide to the slick “20/20” design, which he called “contemporary, edgy, futuristic.” Franchisees called it expensive.
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