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Franchise Profile: Johnny Rockets

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Johnny Rockets was founded on a simple belief: everyone deserves a place to escape from today’s complicated world and experience good food, fun, and friendliness. And people are talking. Johnny Rockets just won the Nation’s Restaurant News Hot Concepts Award.

This All-American Franchise Opportunity was founded June 6th, 1986 on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. Johnny Rockets offers classic all-American food, fun and friendliness around the globe.

The iconic brand’s delicious fare, timeless décor, lively music, dancing servers, and bright, sparkling atmosphere appeals to all ages.  Additionally, their flexible business models lend themselves to a variety of footprints and operating options.

All American Favorites
Johnny Rockets serves a variety of popular menu options that include juicy hamburgers, hand-dipped malts and shakes, American fries (served with their signature ketchup smiley face), and classic sandwiches.

Rockin’ The World
Johnny Rockets currently operates approximately 300 restaurants in 31 states and 18 countries, with 3,000 employees worldwide and annual system sales in excess of $300 million.  The company is in an aggressive expansion mode, with a strategic focus on continued domestic and international growth.

A Great Business Opportunity
Johnny Rocket’s Restaurant Support Center is there to help you, every step of the way.  They provide guidance and assistance in all of the following areas:

  • Franchise Communications
  • Marketing & Promotional Design
  • Purchasing
  • Management Training, Opening/Ongoing Support
  • Nutritional engineering of products to meet regulations

Are you interested in this business opportunity? If so, you can learn so here: http://www.veteransfranchise.com/franchise/Johnny-Rockets

Military Vets Transition to Life Back Home with Help of Corporate Initiatives

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A recent franchise industry study conducted by the International Franchise Association shows that 1 out of 7 businesses in the franchise industry are currently veteran-owned. This statistic offers positive feedback as opposed to the 2012 statistic that 9.9% of Iraq veterans were at the time unemployed. Since then, many large manufacturing companies have begun offering veteran incentives and outreach programs to help transition recent vets back into a job that matches the skills they learned in the military. Alcoa, Boeing, and General Electric all offer veteran initiatives, and have joined forces to employ over 15,000 military vets. All three have implemented programs to help vets transition from life oversees into a manufacturing career here in the States.

“We believe this initiative could have a major impact on the hiring of veterans nationwide,” Says Rick Stephens, a Boeing senior vice president. “It’s a proven approach for matching the skills of those who have served our country to the hiring needs of American businesses.” Their program, known as ‘Get Skills to Work,’ is comprised of three major concepts. It offers accelerated skills training for vets whose military experience does not immediately translate to their work in a manufacturing career. The program also aids in matching the right vet to where his existing skill set might be most effective, while also taking into account his or her personality traits and work habits, to find the best employment match. Finally, the program raises awareness to current employers wanting to hire veterans, and helps them find the best match for what they’re looking for in a future employee.

“Veterans offer the technical, leadership and critical thinking skills that advanced manufacturing demands,” said Paula Davis, president of the Alcoa Foundation. “Forming the Get Skills to Work coalition and coordinating with nonprofits to train, recruit and develop veterans is an exciting model that has the potential to change lives.”

Through the Manufacturing Institute’s Right Skills Now program, training sites for veterans will open across the U.S. in 2013. We can only expect that similar programs will continue to appear as more and more veterans begin to return home and begin life in the US workforce.