Every community has them: restaurant buildings that seem to endlessly change hands, going from concept to concept, with none of them seeming to take hold. This week, it’s a casual bistro. Next week, it’s a steakhouse. The week after that, a seafood restaurant. You drive past them, feeling immediate sympathy for the owner of the latest business to open there, certain that the new business will suffer the same fate. For the operators of these seemingly doomed locations, there seems to be little that can be done to reverse the trend.
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West Coast Franchise Expo, Day 3: Don’t Give Up On Your Trademark
Report from Day 3 of the West Coast Franchise Expo
Day 1 Of The West Coast Franchise Expo: Report From The Floor
Report from Day 1 of the West Coast Franchise Expo.
Are Your Franchisees Really Your Employees? Giving Further Consideration To Awuah v. Coverall
Over the past several months, the blog post that has consistently received the most attention is Awuah v. Coverall: Is The Franchising Model Really At Risk? This is no real surprise, as the Awuah decision has garnered much attention as an area of concern for franchisors. As I recently gave a presentation to the Nevada Franchise Business Network on this topic, I thought I could supplement that post with some of the material I covered in my presentation. This blog post is a summary of the material I covered.
Nevada Franchise Business Network: Summer 2010 Meeting
The next meeting of the Nevada Franchise Business Network will be on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 5:00 PM in the Cili Restaurant at Bali Hai Country Club.
The Unintended Franchise – A Trap For Unwary Business Owners
Are you unknowingly operating a franchise system? If you are licensing others to use your trademarks for a fee, the answer could be yes. Under federal or even state law, a commercial relationship between two parties could be a franchise — even if neither of the parties intended to create one.
Forward Franchising 