Illinois-based franchisee group Indvestia Ventures filed a lawsuit against the cookie brand Dirty Dough last month. The legal action is in response to what the franchisee calls a lack of owed payments ...

The family-owned company’s portfolio grows to 26 locations after taking over Harris Group’s stores in Indiana and Ohio. If Harris Group employees had any unease about their stores being acquired by ...

The founder and former CEO of fitness platform Xponential Fitness has started a new four-brand concept appropriately named Sequel Brands. Anthony Geisler, who was forced out of the top spot at ...

About Franchise Equity Partners FEP partners with best-in-class franchise operators to provide flexible capital solutions for growth, diversification or cap table restructuring. FEP makes minority, ...

Tous les Jours means “every day” in French, and the French-Asian bakery-café chain hopes to make its artisan pastries, gourmet cakes and freshly baked bread an everyday habit in its push in the United ...

Nearly 200 franchisees have left or are set to exit the Line-X franchise system after the franchisor added what operators described as “onerous” new terms to the franchise agreement. The main point of ...

Six best friends are behind CMG Companies, now among the largest restaurant operators in the United States and growing as they put their consolidation strategy to work.

Franchisees in Ellie Mental Health say they were sold on the model as a “clinic in a box” but the reality has fallen far short of expectations. Many have engaged legal counsel, while the franchisor ...

After two years in a row of double-digit sales declines, 150-plus stores shed and the abandonment of a costly effort to drive people to stores rather than spending heavily to beef up e-commerce, ...

Butterfly Equity principal Francesco D'Arcangelo has been involved in acquiring Qdoba twice, once from Jack in the Box and, more recently, from his former employer, Apollo Global Management. Now, ...

Large multi-unit deals are a rarity for quick-service seafood concept Captain D’s. When multi-brand franchisees Keith Johnson and Kevin Davis approached the company, though, Captain D’s was open to ...

Discipline is essential in assessing acquisition targets, says Mike Kulp, CEO of Taco Bell and KFC franchisee KBP Brands.