openPR:
Mystery shopping is now considered the most successful way of securing and optimising quality standards at franchising companies. INTERNATIONAL SERVICE CHECK is an international mystery shopping provider which has focused exclusively on this key competency since the company’s foundation in 1996. The special method used by INTERNATIONAL SERVICE CHECK – sending representative test customers to [...]

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mydigitalfc.com:
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Church’s Chicken is owned by Arcapita Inc., the US branch of First Islamic Investment Bank. After First Islamic bought Church’s, they prohibited franchisee Beasley Food Ventures from selling pork products at their new location at BWI airport. (Church’s franchises that were already selling breakfast were allowed to continue to do so until their contracts came up for renewal) Since breakfast in the South almost invariably involves bacon, ham or sausage, and the restaurants lease required them to open at 5am every day, this meant that they sat there throughout the breakfast period selling next to nothing except coffee.

Largely as a result of this, the restaurant went broke.

So, should a foreign Islamic bank that purchases a US business be allowed to then require the independent owners of that businesses franchises to follow Shari’a law, when that was never contemplated in the original franchise contract?

Richard
To the people below who couldn’t read and understand the post….. I didn’t say that Church’s, the franchisor, went broke. I said that the Church’s franchisee at Baltimore Airport went broke.
Edit… to Samian…
The franchisee’s never entered into a contract of any sort with First Islamic. They enterd into a contract with “America’s Favorite Chicken, Inc”, which was the previous owner of Church’s. The franchise agreement - like that for McDonalds or any other chain fast food restaurant - gives the franchisor the authority to set the menu items that the restaurants can sell. The franchisee had no reason to suspect that all of a sudden he would find himself required to sell a Shari’a compliant menu, when he had bought a “Southern Comfort Food” restaurant franchise.

South Bend Tribune:
Marc Anthony Rosa, Richard Gonzales and John Paxton can add managing a business to their long list of to do’s as sophomore business majors at the University of Notre Dame.
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Church’s Chicken is owned by Arcapita Inc., the US branch of First Islamic Investment Bank. After First Islamic bought Church’s, they prohibited franchisee Beasley Food Ventures from selling pork products at their new location at BWI airport. (Church’s franchises that were already selling breakfast were allowed to continue to do so until their contracts came up for renewal) Since breakfast in the South almost invariably involves bacon, ham or sausage, and the restaurants lease required them to open at 5am every day, this meant that they sat there throughout the breakfast period selling next to nothing except coffee.

Largely as a result of this, the restaurant went broke.

So, should a foreign Islamic bank that purchases a US business be allowed to then require the independent owners of that businesses franchises to follow Shari’a law, when that was never contemplated in the original franchise contract?

Richard
To the people below who couldn’t read and understand the post….. I didn’t say that Church’s, the franchisor, went broke. I said that the Church’s franchisee at Baltimore Airport went broke.
Edit… to Samian…
The franchisee’s never entered into a contract of any sort with First Islamic. They enterd into a contract with “America’s Favorite Chicken, Inc”, which was the previous owner of Church’s. The franchise agreement - like that for McDonalds or any other chain fast food restaurant - gives the franchisor the authority to set the menu items that the restaurants can sell. The franchisee had no reason to suspect that all of a sudden he would find himself required to sell a Shari’a compliant menu, when he had bought a “Southern Comfort Food” restaurant franchise.

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SYNLawn, a leading innovator on synthetic grass, today announced the signing of its latest franchise agreement with Mike Maschmeyer of Chicago Roof Deck & Gardens in Chicago. With over four decades of manufacturing experience, SYNLawn is one of the nation’s foremost manufacturers, distributors and installers of high quality synthetic grass products designed specifically for [...]

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