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Looking Back Over 50 Issues of Indy Joe
There is a sense of continuity that comes with publishing a magazine every two months. For DDIFO, this magazine has provided an opportunity to explore and explain in detail how the business of running a Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant is constantly changing. Our work requires that we are always looking ahead—to understand how the past can… Read More »

Message from the Executive Director: Anniversary Edition
This issue of Independent Joe is our 50th issue. DDIFO first published “Indy Joe” back in the spring of 2009 as a 16-page quarterly publication. The cover of the inaugural issue teased a feature on the benefits of mediation versus litigation, along with a photo insert of Brad Pitt carrying a medium cup of Dunkin’… Read More »

Succeeding as a Business Owner in the Next Generation
As Dunkin’ Donuts tests a Next Generation store concept and innovations in coffee products, franchisees must decide how they will make the leap into the next generation themselves. Moving forward in a competitive landscape can be both exciting and challenging. With 70 years of history behind the brand, Dunkin’ Donuts has evolved and diversified to… Read More »

NLRB Moves to Fix Joint Employer
It may have been a long time coming, but the National Labor Relations Board is again moving to correct the egregious 2015 ruling on the joint employer definition. Yesterday, the NLRB released a draft rule that rolls back the new definition of joint employer the agency created in its Browning Ferris decision back in 2015.… Read More »
Latest Issue of IJ

Independent Joe #50 June/July

This issue of Independent Joe is our 50th issue. DDIFO first published “Indy Joe” back in the spring of 2009 as a 16-page quarterly publication. The cover of the inaugural issue teased a feature on the benefits of mediation versus litigation, along with a photo insert of Brad Pitt carrying a medium cup of Dunkin’…
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Franchisee Meetings

Complying with the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act

At the beginning of the 2018 session in January, the Maryland legislature overrode the veto of Governor Larry Hogan and as a result, the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act became effective on February 11, 2018. The law can have a major impact on what private businesses must provide their employees by way of paid and…
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NLRB Moves to Fix Joint Employer

It may have been a long time coming, but the National Labor Relations Board is again moving to correct the egregious 2015 ruling on the joint employer definition. Yesterday, the NLRB released a draft rule that rolls back the new definition of joint employer the agency created in its Browning Ferris decision back in 2015.…
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Press Release

Statement from DDIFO about new Dunkin’ Brands CEO David Hoffman

On behalf of the members of DDIFO and the Dunkin’ franchisee community, I wish to congratulate David Hoffman on being named Chief Executive Officer of Dunkin’ Brands and Nigel Travis on his retirement from the position.
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What’s Brewing

What’s Brewing: Sick Leave, Soda Wars, Rising Wages

Looks like it could be a long, hot and potentially expensive summer for Dunkin’ and other quick service franchise owners around the country. Several states and cities hiked their minimum wage on July 1, with a few now even pushing past the much ballyhooed $15 an hour mark. Activists pushing for sick leave mandates are…
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Legislative Updates

Sexual Harassment Training Mandates

The state of Delaware joined New York, California, Maine and Connecticut in mandating sexual harassment training for private employers when Governor John Carney signed HB 360 into law just over one week ago. The new law, which effective on January 1, 2019 broadens the categories of workers covered by the state Discrimination in Employment Act,…
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IJ Feature Story

Looking Back Over 50 Issues of Indy Joe

There is a sense of continuity that comes with publishing a magazine every two months. For DDIFO, this magazine has provided an opportunity to explore and explain in detail how the business of running a Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant is constantly changing. Our work requires that we are always looking ahead—to understand how the past can…
Read More »
Legal Updates

SEIU Wants NLRB Clock Turned Back

Through the veil of the Fight for $15 movement that it has bankrolled, SEIU demanded that two of the republican members of the National Labor Relations Board recuse themselves this week from decisions involving a pending settlement of a major McDonald’s case. The settlement was rejected by an NLRB administrative law judge last month and…
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