The debt-free chain, roughly 50% company owned and 50% franchised, earns very high management marks, too.
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The most error-free chain was Chick-fil-A, with fewer than 3 percent order mistakes.
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Smart Balance on Aug. 3, acquired Glutino Food Group, the leader in the gluten-free food chain.
For many years Charles Feeney, who went from rags to riches as co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers chain, carried anonymous giving to extremes.
Third, we will continue to make sure that our entire federal supply chain is free of trafficked labor.
The 235-room Hotel Solamar is part of the popular Kimpton chain, offering free wi-fi to members of its InTouch loyalty program (sign up at check in if you are not a member), a complimentary wine hour each evening to mingle with hotel staff and guests, and of course, the requisite rooftop Solamar Terrace, with a heated swimming pool and bar.
By all appearances, it will be a while until the European food chain becomes certifiably horse-free.
The first pub in the chain to become totally smoke-free earlier this month was the Rushbrooke Arms in Bury St Edmunds.
His office website touts his "get tough" policies and says his chain gangs contribute thousands of dollars of free labor to the community.
Companies are trying to save money and increase innovation by integrating third party code, including free open source code, into their software supply chain.
"In January 2012, Defra and the FSA increased checks on horse passports, meaning every horse was checked twice, and from last week no horse can enter the food chain until it is confirmed to be free of bute, " they said.
It was in July last year that Bangkok devalued the baht, setting off a chain reaction that has Southeast Asian currencies in free fall.
The manager of a particular bank chain noticed that even when other tellers were free, his older customers were gravitating towards one particular window.
Hyatt Hotels Corp. currently offers its Gold Passport program members a free night for every two nights at one of the chain's properties through Jan. 31.
But of course not all machines uses Intel's hardware and until companies start talking to each other our digital devices will remain a chain of islands rather than a border-free mainland.
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If you do, you are about to get one step closer to BPA-free shopping thanks to a proactive move by the supermarket chain to ban BPA from its canned foods and receipts.
July 11 was the official 85th birthday of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, and to celebrate they were giving out free 7.11-ounce Slurpees.
Select a hotel chain, sign up for their reward program and earn free nights for your next trip.
Indoor-playground chain Pump It Up, for instance, will offer free babysitting so parents can leave the kiddos and shop unimpeded at many of its 150 locations.
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Its properties are primarily free-standing, single tenant buildings occupied by well-known national chain restaurants, auto-parts stores, and convenience stores.
In Britain it is now on sale only in a few duty-free shops and on Virgin flights, though Virgin plans to launch a chain of Virgin Vodka bars.
ISPs already offer free service in parts of France, such as Groupe Serveur or World Online, Kingfisher has the advantage that Dixons had of access to a trusted distribution network in its Darty chain of household-goods stores, which will give out free starter discs to its numerous customers.
Dixons, one of Britain's biggest electrical retailers, has launched a free Internet access service, as have such copycats as Tesco, a supermarket chain.
There is so little knowledge of GM foods here that a leading Canadian supermarket chain says it cannot call a new range of fresh vegetables GM free because few consumers would know what the term means and it might even put them off.
It had once dominated retail with its catalogs, then became a powerhouse in free standing retail stores, then led the movement to shopping malls as an anchor chain, and even used its history in lending to develop what became Discover card, and had once shown its ability to be a financial services company and even an insurer!
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Its Anthropologie chain offers higher-end apparel for women ages 30 to 45, and its Free People wholesaler peddles togs to boutiques.
All of these hotel chains hope that the provision of free access will boost loyalty and occupancy, by encouraging customers to choose the same hotel or chain again.
The 210-room Hotel Indigo, part of the IHG chain, is the first LEED-certified hotel in downtown San Diego and offers guests free wi-fi, hypo-allergenic hardwood floors and windows that open to the great outdoors in all rooms.
"A huge log that took four people to lift has been put in the pen for scratching and clambering over, a buoy has been suspended on a chain from a metal chain and there is an old tyre to attack, " said a spokesperson for the Born Free Foundation.
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