You never, ever mention your competitors in your marketing and advertising. Unless maybe you attack them. That’s Marketing 101, right?
Well, the conventional wisdom appears to be wrong.
Recent research from Professor Keisha Cutright at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business
Continue Reading Franchisors: Praising Your Competitors Might Promote Your Brand
On September 28, 2021, Fox Rothschild partner Craig Tractenberg with Rochelle Spandorf from Davis Wright Tremaine LLP provided perspectives on drafting licenses and distribution agreements respecting the evergreen issue of creating an accidental franchise in a Strafford Publications webinar. They
Continue Reading The Accidental Franchise: An Evergreen Issue
Recently, I moderated a panel for an International Franchise Association webinar called “From Venture Capital to Private Equity: Franchise Investment Trends and Terms”. I was fortunate to have fantastic panelists: Satya Ponnuru (General Partner of NewSpring Franchise), Vanessa Yakobson (CEO
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Third-party food delivery services via app (e.g., DoorDash, GrubHub, Uber Eats, Postmates, etc.) have become–especially in these pandemic times–a vital part of the restaurant industry ecosystem. And we know that franchise systems regularly utilize and partner with these app-based services.
Continue Reading New York City Passes Sweeping Food Delivery App Laws
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed a lot of things, including employment verification. Does your franchise system understand the special provisions the federal government instituted in the I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification process as a result of the pandemic? If not, you
Continue Reading Webinar: The Pandemic’s Impact on I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification
While the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act was passed by the House of Representatives, it has not been made part of the Biden administration’s infrastructure efforts thus far and does not appear have sufficient support to overcome a
Continue Reading Franchising Threat No. 4: The Deus Ex Machina (A Biden Executive Order)
The California version of the ABC test is arguably the most hostile to franchising. Nonetheless, the risk is not confined to California.
This is because the ABC employee classification test, with variations, has been adopted in a majority of states
Continue Reading Franchising Threat No. 3: Other State Legislation and Policies
The second troublesome threat is the joint employment standard. The Obama Adminstration DOL caused angst in the franchise industry in January 2016, when it adopted a joint employment standard that focused on “whether the employee is dependent on the potential
Continue Reading Franchising Threat No. 2: Joint Employment is BACK!
The PRO Act would do serious, and perhaps mortal, damage to the franchise industry. It would make sweeping changes to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA), and the Labor Management and Disclosure Act (LMDA).
Continue Reading Franchising Threat No. 1: The PRO Act
Omens of the Apocalypse for the franchise industry are everywhere:
Continue Reading Legal Threats to the Franchise Industry: Is this the Apocalypse? (Part 1)
