BlackBern Partners is all in on growing and diversifying its quick-service restaurant portfolio. The New York City-based ...

Trive Capital invested in two Crunch Fitness franchisees last year. The newer of the two deals was in partnership with 808 Capital Partners to invest in Crunch Canada, the country’s largest franchisee ...

Canadian retail brand Metal Supermarkets is entering its 40 th year in operation with new majority stakeholders. Last month the company, founded in 1985, received an investment from Riverarch Equity ...

Miguel Reyes isn’t afraid to take risks. In 2013, after just three months of dating, Reyes asked his then-girlfriend, Mikayla, to lend him the money to buy a pizza-by-the-slice restaurant from their ...

• Acquired by Olympus Partners in 2022, Excel Fitness is up to 164 Planet Fitness locations and counting as the Texas-based operator says it’s already secured multiple 2025 pipeline sites. • As a ...

A mandate from Nothing Bundt Cakes requiring franchisees to keep their businesses open on Sundays has ignited a dispute in Utah and led to the introduction of a state bill aimed at protecting the ...

Slow, organic growth has been a decades-long trend for Classy Closets, a home storage solutions concept created in 1983. The company manufactures and installs custom, built-in home storage solutions ...

Kelly’s Roast Beef has a new owner: private equity firm AAM15 Management Group. The deal includes the acquisition of four ...

This article is part of "Where Are They Now?"—an ongoing series in which Franchise Times managing editor Emilee Wentland and ...

Twin Peaks will secure its status as the first franchise to go public in 2025 when it completes its spinoff from FAT Brands ...

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers’ sales were down about 9 percent year over year in its fourth quarter last year, according to its ...