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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Inequities in Franchise Relationship Are A Global Issue – Over the course of the past few weeks, we’ve reported on efforts to enact “fair franchising” legislation in Maine, California and Massachusetts. Notwithstanding arguments by the IFA and others that infusing a more equitable balance into the franchise relationship would be devastating, the “land down under” now weighs…
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A well-known coffee shop and bakery has teamed up with local professional sports teams to help feed the hungry. Dunkin’ Donuts has partnered with the Syracuse Crunch, the Syracuse Silver Knights and the Syracuse Chiefs to benefit the Food Bank of Central New York. Dunkin’ has pledged to donate one pound of…
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Dunkin’ group’s ‘Spare Change’ gathers big money for charities To each of us, it’s just a few cents weighing us down. But since 2009 this Dunkin’ Donuts group has witnessed the impact small change has for the greater good throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Central New York. Customers dropped $78,861.01 into collection jars for the…
Read More »Steve Barnes reports at The Times Union that Tim Hortons, a 46-year-old Canadian chain of coffee and doughnut shops, will open its first Capital Region location in the fall, at the University at Albany’s Campus Center. The arrival seems a likely indicator of more local Tim Hortons to come, in plazas and as standalone stores, given the company’s precedent of growth once it moves into a region.
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