Members will recall that we’ve reported regularly on efforts to win passage of Fair Franchising legislation in Maine, Massachusetts and California over the past few weeks. (California’s next action is a hearing on August 13 before the Committee on Business and Consumer Protection.) Well, while our opponents continue the chorus that legislation is not necessary,…
Read More »For the third consecutive year, the state of New York has assessed all employers within the Empire State $12.75 for each employee to pay the interest the state owes the federal government for payment of unemployment benefits. The state’s unemployment fund has long been bankrupt necessitating the loan from the US Treasury. In typical government fashion, the…
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Still Fighting In Illinois – Through our membership with the Coalition of Franchisee Associations (CFA), of which DDIFO is a founding member, we have signed on to an important amicus curiae brief filed with the Illinois Supreme Court in the case of Avon Hardware, et al v. Ace Hardware. The case involves a disclaimer in the Ace…
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Boston Globe Reports: For thousands of customers who stop at a Dunkin’ Donuts during the course of the day, dropping a little extra change into a jar next to the cash register is a gesture barely worth noting. But the money that accumulates in those jars has been a point of confusion and heated debate reverberating…
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While most of greater Boston was locked down during a massive manhunt for one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, authorities allowed at least one business to remain open to feed first responders: Dunkin’ Donuts. Adjacent to the Watertown Police Department, the town’s Dunkin’ Donuts voluntarily provided free coffee and snacks to state and local…
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North Carolina’s Changing Environment – North Carolina takes a different view of environmental considerations when it comes to rezoning proposals and the jobs it can represent. Currently, in Charlotte, residents may protest rezoning issues and force a supermajority requirement on the Charlotte City Council. The legislature however is within one final vote of passing the Create…
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The ins and outs of keeping your Dunkin’ Donuts afloat are enough to fill your days and maybe even your nights, but the government likes to add to your challenges. With laws and regulations involving paid sick leave, higher payroll taxes and added meals taxes, Uncle Sam is putting his two cents into your business.…
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Of all the scenarios that Christopher Prazeres imagined as he toed the starting line for the legendary marathon course, he never dreamed that the world’s oldest annual 26.2-mile race would be tragically interrupted by terrorism. It was a sunny April 15 morning, and Prazeres, a second-generation owner of a network which includes seven stores in…
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For Efharis Alepedis, there was no indication that the illustrious 117th running of the Boston Marathon was going to be any different this year for her family’s bustling Copley Square store. It’s the busiest day of the year for the shop, which is just a few hundred feet from the famed blue-and-yellow painted finish line.…
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As we enter into the summer months, we look forward with anticipation to barbeques, sun-filled days, beaches, vacations – and plans to attend the DDIFO National Conference.
For the last few years, the conference was held at the Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort in Uncasville, Connecticut and the speaking outline for the conference was kept under wraps until Labor Day. That all changes this year.
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