We’re always happy to highlight franchises that are making a difference in the community, and with the first day of school looming, it’s exciting to see one franchise initiative aimed at promoting health and fitness reaching a wider audience.
Jamba Juice, the California-based retailer has announced the expansion of its “Sip to Support” 10% give-back program. With this program, organizations who partner with Jamba Juice receive a number of swipe cards, which are distributed to the organization’s supporters. Jamba Juice then send 10% of every purchase made with those swipe cards to those back to the organization.
It’s a smart scheme designed to reward strong organizations and advocate healthy diets. With the growing movement around healthier school lunches, a number of PTAs have signed up. The company say it is going down quite successfully.
“The response has been very positive, so we wanted to offer the program to other community-based organizations — youth sports leagues, after-school programs to name a few — to have greater impact by creating an easy, fun and healthy way to feel good about giving back,” a Jamba Juice spokesperson told MediaPost.
Any organization or a PTA with a local Jamba Juice should look into the possibilities of the ‘Sip To Support’ campaign.
One of the most important documents for anyone seriously interested in franchise ownership is the Franchise Disclosure Document.
Perhaps not every entrepreneur is aware of the vast amount of information on offer in these documents, so it’s helpful to see Crain’s Detroit advocating a pretty thorough analysis of a franchise’s FDD before signing the dotted line on the franchise agreement.
The article breaks down many of the benefits of the FDD, and especially stresses on focusing on the turnover section.
Anyone looking for more background information on the FDD should read our breakdown on important form. And of course, with Franchise Direct, you can access the FDD’s of some of the best franchises in the world.
As Hispanics become more involved in American society, many are launching their business dreams by opening small businesses and franchises. They face the same problem that all American entrepreneurs face at the moment: how to receive the money that will get the business off the ground.
The News and Observer newspaper ran an interesting story recently about a novel solution of many Latino entrepreneurs. They’re turning to credit unions small banks for microloans. The paper tells the story of entrepreneur Christian Ruiz, who has started his own Jani-King business with the help of a $6,000 loan from La Cooperativa Latina de Crédita.
We hear so much about the struggles from franchisees to get funding. While immigration is a very divisive subject, it is undeniable that people flock to America with the hope of finding work and making money. These loan programs facilitate that entrepreneurial spirit.
So while it’s exciting to see a new business class emerging, other entrepreneurs should also keep in mind that with a bit of creativity, business funding can be attained.
We’re always interested to watch the growth of a number of pizza franchise concepts and it was exciting to read about the success of Pizza Ranch.
Pizza Ranch is one of the pioneers of the buffet pizzeria. While some smaller pizza franchises have lost out due to the recession, Pizza Ranch is on the rise in America at the moment.
“We’ve had a really strong past couple of years for sales,” said Adrie Groeneweg, company founder told Pizza Marketplace. “Any time there’s been a downturn in the economy, it’s never really affected us.”
Other pizza franchises will be interested to know that Pizza Ranch has consolidated their market position by focusing on quality. Their ‘premium buffet’ is roping in customers, as they have offerings that appeal to both to gourmands and regular margherita pizza lovers.
They also have an interesting concept called the Tip Night, which really roots the franchise in the community:
In this program, local charities and community members can volunteer to staff the restaurant to raise money for their specific cause. The volunteer organization will do mainly front-of-house tasks, such as bussing tables or delivering pizza and serving drinks for the special night, which occurs once a week. Tips from the occasion go to the cause at hand. Some stores even donate a percentage of the night’s sales.
By the sound of it, Pizza Ranch are on their way to becoming a household name.
Pizza has been on our minds a lot lately.
After publishing the 2010 Pizza Franchise Report earlier this summer, it really focused our minds on pizza and its various benefits. As a lifelong pizza lover, I’d never really considered the health advantages of pizza before. In fact, I basically considered them to be about nil. I always figured that, while healthier than deep-fried food, pizza isn’t exactly diet material.
But I have had my mind changed by a recent study. The London newspaper The Guardian have published findings of an Italian study which says pizza is actually good for you. Silvano Gallus of Milan’s Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche has been studying the healthy benefits of pizza over the last decade and he claims that eating pizza actually can prevent some cancers and heart disease.
There’s one caveat, of course: “Pizza may in fact merely represent a general indicator of the so-called Mediterranean diet, which has been shown to have potential health benefits,” each study says.
We’ve seen in the past that coffee has health benefits, and now add pizza franchises to that list. While pizza may not save your life, pizza lovers out there will be happy to know that it does do some good.
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