Juan Valdez, a coffee brand backed by the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation, is opening franchised cafes in Florida in a fresh attempt to challenge Starbucks in the U.S.
The first store was to open in Miami this week, according this Bloomberg BusinessWeek article.
And Kono Pizza — a pizza-in-a-cone concept invented in Italy and selling in Edison, N.J. since 2007 — was one of many new food concepts eyeing expansion recently at the 2014 International Franchise Expo. Watch the video and see other other new food concepts at Entrepreneur.