Personnel turnover during the past trimester

In our every four month re-verification cycle of our restaurantchains.net directory we took a count of how many of whom had changed positions at the corporate level during the period from 12/19/05- 04/19/06. Listed here are the results:

Changes in personnel include 32 marketing, 22 chefs, 17 purchasing, 16 operations, 14 human resources, 12 training, 10 real estate, 9 CFO's, 8 COO's, 8 controllers, 7 CEO's, 7 franchising, 6 IT, and 4 construction.

The preceding numbers DO NOT reflect the more than 400 other folks with same (or other) titles who have been added during the period.

Watch out Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts!

Caribou Coffee is quietly going on a growth tear. The bigger boys are getting the press, but Caribou has grown 17% in just the past four months. They have grown from 337 to 395 stores and expanded into the states of IN & SD.

New Newsletter!

We started a new (every two weeks) newsletter displaying changes in the restaurant chains that we track. Currently, we have 3719 chains in our database that we call and reverify every four months. 3400 are unique brand, the remainder franchisee companies.

Since the RestaurantChains.net project began we have been through the entire database 10 times by now. I believe we are finding some neat-to-read items.

Now you can get a copy sent to you by email every two weeks. Just send me an email at keith@foodservicereport.com and request to be added and please include your name and company information.

So far we have sent out four newsletters and the demand has been so great we have to hand over our email management to a third party company. Within a week or so we'll have our new website up where we will have newlsetter archives as well as a new email sign up tool.