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Coffee Fellows


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Coffee Fellows is a German coffeeshop chain founded in 1999 in Munich, Bavaria by Kathrin Tewes and co-managed by her and her husband, Olympic Gold medalist Stefan Tewes who joined her in management in 2000. As of 2017, they have about 170 stores, most of them franchised, and are now #1 before Starbucks who have 160 stores.

During a stay in London with her husband, Kathrin Tewes realised there were not as many coffeeshops of this kind in Germany. The idea of the coffee chain was to establish a comfortable environment (the company's slogan is "Feel at home"), luxurious, modern and cozy. Other drinks and snacks are also offered. The first store was opened in the Leopoldstrasse in 1999, a second one in Düsseldorf flopped but they gained ground after this setback.

In 2000, Kathrin’s husband Stefan quit his job as a consultant for Roland Berger to work with his wife. Since then the company has placed itself in the top 10 coffee shop chains in Germany.

In 2009 Coffee Fellows earned a Coffee Shop Award for the continuous improvements and further development of the concept as well as the whole management of the business. At the end of 2010 Coffee Fellows was running 36 shops, mostly in southern Germany, and the business planned to expand into northern Germany. In 2015, Tewes added 10 stores, and opened their 100th coffee shop in December 2015. This made them the third largest coffeeshop chain in Germany after McCafé and Starbucks.



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Coffee Alley


Coffee Alley is a coffeehouse chain store based in Taiwan. It was founded in December 2006 by five young people. The Taiwanese name of the coffeehouse was based on the first location of the store in Zhongxiao East Road, and is intended to convey a sense of playing around with coffee.

The store started out in a store of 534.45 square feet but has been extending its scale rapidly in the last eight years. There are six branches in Taiwan and made its debut in Hong Kong in January 2013. Like some other high street coffeehouses, Coffee Alley requires a drink per person as minimum consumption and a 90 minutes dining time limit during peak hours.

Coffee Alley signatures in its coffee beverages, ranging from iced drip coffee to house coffee. Non- caffeine beverages include smoothies and juice. Their food menu focuses on sandwiches and salads, mainly continental style food and desserts.

Coffee Alley founders utilize online platform to achieve promotion objectives, setting up Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube accounts to achieve promotion objectives. To maintain an identical form of business as the Taiwan branches, the Hong Kong branches hire staffs who are not older than 27 years old, and waiters mainly communicate with customers in Mandarin despite the Cantonese speaking majority in Hong Kong. Like in Taiwan, dress code of waiters are casual dressing, basically anything with the Coffee Alley apron attached.

Since reservation service is not available, in the first year of business in Hong Kong, the average queuing time is around 90 minutes. Responding to this phenomenon there are netizens commenting about queuing tactics, such as what time to start queuing and ordering tactic, to ensure their dining experience would worth the wait. The problem is later solved by arranging queuing tickets to customers, the queuing trend has declined.

Coffee Alley’s business competitors are other Taiwanese cafes featuring similar shop decoration, and product range, including Dazzling Cafe and Teawood. Their target customers are also young people and the queuing phenomenon happens to these competitors as well. As a later comer to the Taiwanese cafe business sector in Hong Kong, it’s business is in a competitive scale comparing with its congener.

There are in total eight branches in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Two of them are in Hong Kong and the others are in Taiwan.



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Cold Stone Creamery


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Cold Stone Creamery is an American-based ice cream parlor chain. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, the company is owned and operated by Kahala Brands. The company's main product is premium ice cream made with approximately 12–14% butterfat, made on location and customized for patrons at time of order. Cold Stone has also expanded its menu with other ice cream related products, including: ice cream cakes, pies, cookie sandwiches, smoothies, shakes and iced or blended coffee drinks.

Since 2008, the company has been co-branding its locations with other chains in an attempt to not only increase its presence outside of the United States, but transform its business model from seasonal to year-round.

The Company was co-founded in 1988 by Donald and Susan Sutherland, who sought ice cream that was neither hard-packed nor soft-serve. Publicity materials describe it as "smooth and creamy super-premium ice cream." Cold Stone Creamery opened its first store that year in Tempe, Arizona. The original Cold Stone Creamery, store #0001, is in operation today near the same intersection (southwest corner of McClintock & Southern) as the original Tempe location. The store moved from the original location to the current location in the early 1990s.

The Company has maintained the same original business model created by Steve Herrell who founded Steve's Ice Cream. Patrons first select what flavor of ice cream they would like and then choose from a plethora of mix-ins available to be folded into their ice cream. Mix-ins can include, but are not limited to: candies, nuts, brownies and/or syrups. Cold Stone's derives its name from the frozen granite slab that the team members use to fold your mix-ins into the ice cream. The concept is similar to the Marble Slab Creamery, the inventor of mixing ice cream on a frozen stone slab (founded in 1983), which was also inspired by Steve Herrell and was operating in the Phoenix metro area in the late 1980s.

In 1995, Cold Stone Creamery opened its first franchise store in Tucson, Arizona. Shortly after, a second location (first out of state) was opened in Camarillo, California. Cold Stone Creamery is now the sixth bestselling brand of ice cream in the US and operates stores in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand,Brazil Puerto Rico, Indonesia, Guam, China, Mexico, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kenya,Trinidad and Tobago, Qatar, Nigeria, Kuwait, The Philippines, Singapore, Turkey and Bangladesh. In 2008, Cold Stone opened its first European franchise in Copenhagen, Denmark. Three more stores were later opened in other parts of the country. In January 2006, the Company was named the 11th fastest-growing franchise by Entrepreneur magazine. In June 2009, the Company opened its first locations in Canada, Mississauga and Ontario. As of 2015 there is one location in Toronto and only Canadian location. As of 2012, three stores had opened in Singapore. In March 2015, Cold Stone opened its first location in Turkey's capital Ankara. In 2015 Cold Stone Creamery opened its first location in El Salvador in Multiplaza Mall. As of 2017, there are two stores in Dhaka in Bangladesh; at Gulshan and Dhanmondi.



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Collins Foods


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Collins Foods Limited (ASX: CKF) is a publicly-listed Australian company focused in restaurant operations. It is best known for operating restaurant chains KFC and Sizzler in Australia and parts of Asia. The company also owns Snag Stand, a fast casual restaurant chain founded in 2011 by businessperson Philip Blanco.

As of November 2016 Collins Foods operate 217 restaurants in Australia and 65 restaurants in Asia. In October 2016 Collins Foods announced plans to expand KFC operations into Germany.

United States national, James Collins, founded Collins Foods International in 1968 after multiple meetings with Colonel Sanders and acquiring the Sizzler brand in 1967. Collins Foods International was a publicly traded company with more than 240 Sizzler and KFC stores in the United States and Australia.

In the 1980s the company's Sizzler business was struggling financially as popularity with the general public dipped. Sizzler appointed Thomas L. Gregory as president and CEO of the chain during this time. The Sizzler brand underwent changes in menu selection and customer experience, which proved to help bolster the brand's profitability. Based on these results, Collins Foods International expanded further into Asia in 1992.

Collins Foods International began selling off 209 United States- based KFC stores to PepsiCo in 1990. The sale was completed in 1991 for a total of US$123 million. The company was renamed as Sizzler International as efforts were increasingly focused on its Sizzler business.



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Competitive Foods Australia


Competitive Foods Australia Pty Ltd (CFA) is the largest franchiser of restaurants in Australia. It is owned and operated by Jack Cowin. Its units include Hungry Jack's & KFC.

CFA currently operates at least four different restaurant brands.

Hungry Jack's, sometimes colloquially abbreviated to HJ's, is the exclusive Australian master franchisee of Burger King Corporation. With over 300 locations in the country, HJ's is the second largest franchisee of Burger King in the world.

When Burger King decided to expand its operations into Australia, it found that its business name was already trademarked by a man running a small takeaway food shop in Adelaide. Thus, BK was forced to change the name when it decided to open stores in the country - the only time this has happened in its corporate history. Burger King provided the Australian franchisee, Jack Cowin, with a list of possible alternative names that the Australian Burger King restaurants could be branded as. The names were derived from pre-existing trademarks already registered by Burger King and its then corporate parent Pillsbury. Cowin selected the "Hungry Jack" brand name, one of Pillsbury's US pancake mixture products, and slightly changing the name to a possessive form by adding an apostrophe 's' thus forming the new name Hungry Jack's. Accordingly, the first Australian franchise of the Burger King Corporation, established in Perth in 1971, was branded as Hungry Jack's.

Hungry Jack's currently owns and operates or sub-licenses all of the Hungry Jack's and Burger King restaurants in Australia. As the master franchise for the continent, the company is responsible for licensing new operators, opening its own stores and performing standards oversight of franchised locations in Australia.

In 1991, Hungry Jack's Pty Limited renewed its franchise agreement with Burger King Corporation which allowed the Hungry Jack's to license third party franchisee, however one of the conditions of the agreement was that Hungry Jack's had to open a certain number of stores each year for the term of the contract. In 1996, shortly after the Australian trademark on the Burger King name lapsed, BKC made a claim that Hungry Jack's had violated the conditions of the renewed franchise agreement by failing to the expand the chain at the rate defined in the contract and sought to terminate the agreement. Under the aegis of this claim, Burger King Corporation in partnership with Royal Dutch Shell's Australian division Shell Company of Australia Ltd., began to open its own stores in 1997 beginning in Sydney and throughout the Australian regions of New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria. Additionally, BKC sought to limit HJ's ability to open new locations in the country, whether they were corporate locations or third-party licensees.



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Cottage Inn Pizza


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Cottage Inn Pizza is an American regional franchise pizza delivery corporation headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The first Cottage Inn restaurant opened in Ann Arbor in 1948 and remains the company's flagship today. There are currently over 50 franchised stores in Michigan and Ohio.

The first Cottage Inn restaurant, opened in 1948, still stands in its original location at 512 East William, Ann Arbor. Although it started as a coffee shop, pizza was introduced in 1959. It has the distinction of being the first restaurant in Ann Arbor to serve pizza. The current owner acquired the building in 1961.

The restaurant went through renovations in 1975, 1980, and 1987. In 1993, the restaurant expanded again to include a second floor and banquet room facilities. Due to its proximity to the University of Michigan campus, the Original Cottage Inn is often frequented by students and visitors. The restaurant also has an established relationship with the Ann Arbor community, participating in community service events such as feeding the homeless on Thanksgiving.

In early 2014, Cottage Inn announced a plan to expand nationally using a franchising business model. The company is accepting applications from potential franchisees through their franchising website.

By 1978, Cottage Inn's continued growth required the formation of a second company to devote to delivery services. As a result, Cottage Inn Carryout & Delivery, Inc. was established. The first Cottage Inn store under this new company was founded at Packard and Hill streets in Ann Arbor. In June 1986, the first franchise opened in Ypsilanti. In 2003, the new corporate headquarters and distribution center opened in Ann Arbor.

Cottage Inn offers a variety of pizza, perhaps most well known for their specialty gourmet pizzas, along with various crust styles and toppings. Additional menu items include Italian-American entrees, salads, sandwiches, breadsticks, beverages, and desserts.

In 2009, Cottage Inn expanded its menu to include gluten free pizzas and cheese bread due to a growing demand for pizza from customers who suffer from celiac disease. The Brighton location was the first to introduce gluten free pizza, which has since spread to the rest of the Cottage Inn locations. In May 2013, Cottage Inn launched gluten free sandwiches.



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Craveable Brands


Craveable Brands is an Australian fast food company. It has been owned by Archer Capital since June 2011. It owns the Chicken Treat, Oporto and Red Rooster brands with 560 restaurants in Australia.

In May 2017 the company was renamed from Quadrant Service Restaurants to Craveable Brands in advance of a proposed stock market flotation.



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