Just One Franchise: Teakwoods Tavern
Teakwoods Tavern is the kind of place where you can hang out with friends and watch the game, grab a quick lunch with friends from work, or enjoy a relaxed meal with your family. You can even swing by for breakfast. The franchise likes to place Teakwoods Taverns in small…
Fast Food Franchises under Fire
Quick service restaurants make up one of the largest pieces of the franchise business opportunity pie. Or cupcake, cookie pizza, burger, or dish of your choice. The appeal from a business point of view is obvious. Some 160,000 fast food restaurants serve 50,000,000 customer a day, to the tine of…
Just One Franchise: TCBY and Mrs. Fields
Just one franchise… but isn’t that two? In fact, TCBY and Mrs. Fields are both franchise business opportunities from Famous Brands International. For a limited time, they’re offering a Dual Brand Concept that lets you offer both warm, chewy cookies and cool, sweet frozen yogurt for the same investment. TCBY…
Franchises Flexing their Muscle
Some 80% of franchisees are male. No wonder plenty of popular franchises base their business models on the idea of men helping men with manly pursuits. Here are just a few of the franchises in this category. Filta Filta Environmental Kitchen Solutions offers cooking oil filtration & fryer management for…
Why YOU Should Own Your Own Business
I have been self-employeed for more than 20 years. In each of those 20+ years, as an owner of a business, I truly had no idea what each year would bring in the way of financial success, peace of mind, security, or whatever emotional well-being I was searching for. What…
Choosing a Franchise Business Opportunity: Love or Money?
In his book Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entreprenuers, Norm Brodsky said people ask the wrong questions when they’re comparing business opportunities: I’m constantly hearing from people who have ten different business ideas they’re considering at the same time. They want to know which one I think is…
Just One Franchise: NZone
Remember those long summer days spent running and playing outdoors? Many of today’s kids won’t have those memories. According to an article from the National Wildlife Federation, children today spend more than seven hours in front of a screen and less than 30 minutes outside playing. It may be one…
Are Franchise Owners Business Owners?
A Forbes article listed 13 mistakes new franchisees make, and one of them was investing in a franchise business in order to be your own boss. “Franchising is based on conformity and uniformity,” the author said, “not freedom.” One of the great advantages of a franchise business is that you…
How Does that Franchise Handle Upgrades?
You’ve chosen a franchise business opportunity, let’s say, and you can tell it will be a great fit for you. The business systems seem ideal, the offerings are just what your community needs, and you can easily see yourself doing exactly what the franchisor describes as the daily routine in…
What Do Franchise Turnover Rates In Business Mean?
Item #20 of the Franchise Disclosure Document gives the FTR percentage, or Franchise Turnover Rate. This item can really bring up the problem some statisticians call the Memorial Day issue: looking at a number out of context doesn’t tell you much. The problem is named for a tradition many local…