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2022 School Of Culinary Arts And Food Technology Newsletter - Winter Edition, James Murphy Dec 2022

2022 School Of Culinary Arts And Food Technology Newsletter - Winter Edition, James Murphy

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The School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology, TU Dublin, Winter Edition Newsletter captured the many events, research, awards, significant contributions and special civic and community activities which the students and staff members of the school have successfully completed up to the Winter period of 2022. The successful completion of these activities would not be possible without the active and on-going support of the 'INSPIRED' friends of Culinary Arts (school supporters) and our school's industry association supporters. If you would like to support our school and the next Generation of Food, Culinary and Horticulture students, contact us at e: scaft@tudublin.ie


The Effect Of Franchising And Dividend Payments In The U.S. Restaurant Industry, Lan Jiang, Michael Dalbor May 2022

The Effect Of Franchising And Dividend Payments In The U.S. Restaurant Industry, Lan Jiang, Michael Dalbor

Journal of Hospitality Financial Management

The purpose of this research is to understand the effect of franchising and dividend payments in the restaurant industry. To be specific, this study tried to assess whether franchising and dividend payments improve financial performance in restaurant firms, and whether restaurant firms that both engage in franchising and pay dividends can achieve superior returns to those firms that only do one or the other. Data was collected using Compustat from 2011–2020, a total of 94 restaurants with 600 firm year observations were included in the sample. The results of this study suggested that franchising and dividend payments each enables restaurant …