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Welcome December with warm, open arms, just like these franchises are doing! Many franchises have taken the first week of December to launch their festive campaigns, getting customers ready for the Christmas season. Get in the ho-ho-holiday spirit in this week’s Friday Franchising News.
Papa John’s Introduces the Festive Feast Pizza
Papa John’s 2018 festive campaign features the Festive Feast Pizza, a pizza that builds upon the success of previous years’ festive treats. This year, the Festive Feast Pizza includes a hog roast pizza and a Cherry Shimmer Candy cane dessert. For the hog roast pizza, the leading pizza franchise is using 100% fresh dough, the brand’s unique tomato sauce, a hog roast pork instead of sausage, turkey, sage and onion meatballs, bacon, mozzarella cheese and a drizzle of cranberry sauce. The candy cane dessert is made of 100% fresh dough shaped into perfect candy canes and topped with a Cherry Shimmer Candy sauce and an icing drizzle. Papa John’s festive campaign will continue until January 1, 2019.
Card Connection Puts the Joys Back into Christmas Giftwrap
Card Connection knows that recycling is at the top of everybody’s mind when it comes to household products, and that includes giftwrap. The greeting card franchise also knows that there’s a lot of confusion as to what giftwrap can be recycled. That’s why all of Card Connection’s giftwrap is recyclable, so that customers’ minds can be at ease. Customers just need to look for the brand’s distinctive black and white rollwrap dispensers.
Shakeaway Introduces Christmas Menu
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas as Shakeaway. The shake franchise has introduced its Christmas menu for 2018, featuring 6 limited-edition Christmas-themed shakes to try either cold or hot. The Happy Holly features double caramel with Rolos and caramel shortbread topped with whipped cream. Frosty Franny is for white chocolate lovers with a mix of white Kinder Bueno and Raffaello topped with Milkybar Buttons. Naughty Noel mixes Terry’s Chocolate Orange and butterscotch and is topped with popping candy. Rockin Robin is a festive blend of Ferrero Rocher and vanilla fudge topped with Milky Way Stars. And Snowman Sam features mince pies with custard and whipped cream. These shakes are all available until 24 December.
Bella Italia Gets into the Christmas Spirit with New Dishes
Bella Italia has launched new festive dishes combining Christmas dinner with traditional Italian treats. The brand new menu has Christmas-themed pizza and lasagne, along with regular menu favorites. The new Pizza Festiva is topped with roast chicken, pigs in blankets, red onion, pancetta and a topping of special sage and cranberry sauce. The innovative Lasagne Festiva takes the classic lasagna and replaces the traditional Bolognese sauce with roast chicken, pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce and a red onion and béchamel sauce. The limited-time menu will be available through the end of December.
Ableworld Launches Charitable Christmas Campaign
A local Ableworld franchise in Northwich is making sure Christmas is a special event for everyone, including patients who are hospital-bound during the holiday. For those who are not able to spend the holiday at home with friends and family, Christmas can be a trying time. This year will be the Northwich branch of Ableworld’s third annual shoebox campaign. During the campaign, the franchise will be creating gift boxes for patients of local hospitals assembled from donated items – from puzzle books and hot chocolate to toiletries and winter hats, scarves, and gloves – and delivered to patients of local hospitals just in time for Christmas Day. Over the last two years, the mobility aids franchise has been able to create more than 100 shoeboxes each year. Donations will be collected until 17 December and will be donated to the Royal Hospital Shrewsbury and the Princess Hospital Telford.