Tag Archives: New Store Development
New Franchise Friday: Zoup! Fresh Soup Company
Living in the often blustery cold and damp Midwest, there are some days when I simply can not warm up no matter what. Grey skies, rain, snow, sleet, slush, and road construction all blend together to make up typically 5 or so months when staying warm and cozy is on top of everyone’s mind here. [...]
New Franchise Friday: Umami Ko!!!!
This week’s entry into River’s Edge Project Management’s now world famous New Franchise Friday feature has been dishing up artfully prepared burgers based on the literal science of taste. No really, these guys are making use of something that many people have likely never even heard of. Enter, Umami Burger……who? Never heard of them? That’s [...]
What your drive thru needs to succeed
What is the one thing that sets a quick-service restaurant apart from almost all other businesses? The drive thru. Quite simple in design and function, this rather unique element employed by most QSRs provides a level of convenience for the customer and a level of potential profit boost for the owner not recognized in other [...]
QSR Window Graphics, too much or too little?
Today is “We Want Your Thoughts, Wednesday”! Be sure to leave us a comment after the post and let us know what you would like to see here in the future! Restaurant operators have a ton of decisions to make throughout their new store development projects; location, construction (wink, wink), hiring, and marketing just to [...]
Recommending QSR Contractors?
Thinking back to my previous “How to Select a Contractor” post from a while back, I wanted to take a quick recap on some key points that need to be visited each time a need for hiring a contractor presents itself. My clients very frequently ask me to recommend contractors for their upcoming projects. They [...]
Are you really what you eat? QSR & Fast Casual Restaurants may be up for GM Labelling too
Clear and concise food labeling… is that a good thing for Quick Service Restaurants or a bad thing? “Consumers International (CI) and its member organizations celebrated victory today as regulators from more than 100 countries agreed on long overdue guidance on the labeling of genetically modified (GM) food.” – http://www.consumersinternational.org/news-and-media/news/2011/07/gm-labelling-victory-as-us-ends-opposition To me that is huge success! After [...]
Out with the old, in with the ____?
In an economic downturn, should your business’s primary focus be on retaining existing clients or acquiring new clients? Kind of a ‘to be or not to be’ really, but a vitally relevant question any business owner needs to be asking of him or herself… The majority would say that to truly attain success and gain [...]
Menu Labelling Thoughts?
With the big NRA show in Chicago earlier this week, there has been a lot of buzz about some neat new technology, tasty new food choices, and of course the dreaded menu-labeling legislation that looms over the entire restaurant industry like a dark and mysterious cloud. No one really knows what is going to happen [...]
The End?
Well, here we are at another much needed Friday afternoon. Assuming the ‘apocalypsers’ are all wrong, you may be looking to develop a new store and need our tips on selecting a QSR contractor soon! Here it is Top Ten List – QSR Contractor Of course, you could make the process even easier on yourself [...]
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
If you don’t have respect, then what really do you have? I, for one, hold a great level of respect for myself and for those reading my blog posts. It is for this reason that I withheld posting this one until after lunch…..you can thank me later. Hard times have been abundant; there is definitely [...]
