The Subway restaurant chain is growing at a fast pace. Subway’s franchisees, between Oct. 1 and Dec. 21, opened more than 500 new restaurants around the globe. Milestones for the period include reaching more than 33,700 locations worldwide, of which 9,900 can be found in international markets. The 500 new Subway restaurants accounted for some…
Subway To Be Featured On Undercover Boss
Don Fertman, chief development officer for the Subway sandwich chain, has played a pivotal role in the growth of the Subway brand to become the largest quick service restaurant chain in the world. But recently, while participating in the hit CBS television series Undercover Boss, Fertman was able to get a glimpse at a part…
VERC Enterprises Aims and Delivers
VERC ENTERPRISES AT A GLANCE VERC Enterprises was launched 35 years ago by Paul Vercollone and his father Eugene in 1975 with a single gas station/car wash in Marshfield, Mass. Leo Vercollone, the company’s current president and CEO, joined the team after he graduated from Boston College in 1977. Paul continues to oversee the…
Flash Market Adds Pizza Inn Franchise
Convenience store chain Flash Market has added Pizza Inn’s traditional and specialty pizzas for takeout or delivery in Lebanon, Tenn., as part of a franchise agreement. The newest Pizza Inn delivery/carryout location opened at 1051 Murfreesboro Road in Lebanon, and similar Pizza Inn locations are planned for select Flash Market stores throughout Arkansas and Tennessee.…
Food Sales Are On A Roll
Few things in life are easier than slapping together a sandwich. At home, that is. For c-store operators, operating a successful sandwich program is a complex matter that takes training, solid management, quality ingredients and, most of all, a commitment to a very different type of business than what they’re used to. Even then there…
Understanding Your Foodservice Customers
Now more than ever convenience store executives recognize that both survival and prosperity depend on their ability to adapt to changing customer preferences and the evolving business environment. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the changing role of convenience stores as a foodservice provider for budget-conscious, time-sensitive consumers that have scaled back on restaurant…
Subway Introduces Breakfast Sandwiches
Subway is launching a national breakfast menu of egg and cheese sandwiches next month, Nation’s Restaurant News reported. The new breakfast sandwiches already debuted on March 1 in Canada and will be sold at more than 25,000 of Subway’s North America locations beginning April 5. The sandwich chain’s new offering comes after one of its rivals,…
Cold and Frozen Beverages Offer Promise
Inside the Numbers: J&H Family Express Stores 60+% Profit margin on fountain drinks. $5,000 Amount spent on cold and frozen dispensing equipment per store. 10 Stores Scheduled to have cold/frozen equipment upgraded in 2010. 2 Years Anticipated ROI for the beverage units. 10% Projected percentage of store sales from cold and frozen dispensed beverages with…
Love’s Opens Store in Tulare, Calif.
Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores has opened a new travel stop in Tulare, Calif., The new site is located at 2700 S. Blackstone Street, or (Paige/Blackstone) State Route 99, exit 85. A grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony will be held at 2 p.m., this Thursday, Jan. 28, in partnership with the Tulare Chamber…
Reay’s Ranch Raises More Than $141,000 For Arizona’s Children Association
Employees at Reay’s Ranch stores spent the last year dedicated to an important cause. In January 2009 the employees of Reay’s Ranch Investors’ Super Stop and Minit Market convenience stores and Gordon’s IGA Markets in Southern Arizona made it their goal to raise $100,000 to benefit vulnerable children and families served by Arizona’s Children Association…