Pizza Hut and TGI Friday franchise could be part of buyout deal. Marketwatch reports that Starwood Capital is interested in buying Whitbread the U.K. owner of hotels, coffee chains, gyms and restaurants, the Sunday Mail and other newspapers reported. Starwood would probably sell Whitbread’s U.K. franchises of TGI Friday’s and Pizza Hut, the reports said. …
Subway may be the world’s largest franchise system, but not among the 200 largest multi-unit franchisees in the U.S. According to the Monitor 200 rankings, released by the Restaurant Finance Monitor, Taco Bell, Burger King and Applebee’s were the most popular concepts with multi-unit franchisees. The Monitor’s annual ranking of the top franchisees, sponsored by …
MICROS Systems, Inc. a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, announced today that Wendy’s International, Inc. is deploying MICROS’s mymicros.net to collect, warehouse, and analyze transactional-level data from all company-owned stores. Mymicros.net will provide near real-time data collection and analysis from various point- of-sale (POS) systems installed in approximately …
Sbarro, the nation’s leading quick service Italian restaurant company, today announced that it will continue the company‘s rapid international expansion by opening more than 25 restaurant franchises in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, The Bahamas and Romania. In each country, Sbarro will be the first company to offer pizza-by-the-slice and a full, quick service menu consisting …