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For an early childhood education franchise, delivering a consistent experience depends heavily on the educators leading its classrooms. Celebree School is formalizing how it prepares those teachers through Celebree Certified, a new internal certification program that requires educators to demonstrate classroom readiness before leading independently. Announced September 8th, the initiative is already operating across Celebree’s corporate schools. The company plans to expand it to franchise locations in early 2027, bringing a structured combination of training, mentorship, and observation to teacher onboarding throughout the system. The program addresses a distinction at the center of Celebree’s announcement: meeting state qualifications and demonstrating…
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Growth & Strategy
The ideas, emerging concepts, investments, marketing, and strategic moves shaping franchise growth.
SMB Franchise Advisors is entering a new stage of growth following a strategic minority investment from principals of Navigator Partners, a partnership designed to expand the franchise consultancy’s platform of services for emerging and established franchisors. The Doylestown, Pennsylvania-based firm announced the investment on September 14th. SMB’s existing leadership team…
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Operations & Technology
The systems, tools, technology, and operating ideas helping franchise brands and operators perform better.
Ask a real estate investor what actually kills a good deal, and the answer is rarely the property itself. More often it’s hesitation, a bad guess on repair costs, or a decision made from the gut instead of the data. New Again Houses, a franchise built around buying distressed, inherited,…
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Leadership & People
The executives, operators, talent moves, and leadership ideas shaping franchise organizations.
WellBiz Brands has appointed John Thuringer as Vice President of Franchise Growth, adding an experienced franchise development executive to support expansion across its beauty, health and wellness portfolio. Thuringer brings 17 years of experience from Purpose Brands, where he helped drive franchise development for Anytime Fitness and Waxing the City.…
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When prospective franchisees compare opportunities, the royalty rate is often one of the first numbers they notice. One franchise may charge 5% of revenue. Another may charge 6%. A third may charge 7%. Those figures are easy to compare, but they don’t necessarily tell buyers what they need to know.…
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“As we enter 2026, the economics of franchise growth have reached an inflection point where time saved has become the single most critical factor in predicting long-term success,” said Sam Phelps. In a late-January launch from Fort Worth, his team at Franchise Now introduced DreamStart; an AI-guided funding and onboarding…
When you talk to Daniel McCarty, you don’t get the feeling you’re speaking to a man tinkering at the edges of an old idea. You get the feeling you’re talking to someone tearing the whole thing down, just to rebuild it better. From his home base in San Antonio, McCarty…
Walk past a claw arcade on your way to a department store, and something happens. The lights catch your eye. The sounds pull at some corner of your childhood. Before you know it, you have tokens in your hand and thirty minutes have quietly disappeared. That magnetic quality is not…
I sat down with Don Tarinelli, Chief Development Officer at Franchise FastLane, to take a clear-eyed look at how franchise development works in 2026. The conversation did what the best interviews do; it opened up better questions. Why are more founders gravitating to franchise sales organizations now? What truly signals…
Daniel Boone has a goal that sounds almost like a punch line until you realize he means it. “I’ve always had a goal, for quite some time now, to live to be 120,” Boone said. That kind of long-view thinking is what eventually pulled him out of the furniture business…
Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux closed the holiday season with a nationwide giveback that was deliberately simple and intensely hands-on; cooks cooked; teammates delivered; neighbors received. Across the system, restaurants prepared and distributed more than 7,500 meals through local non-profits chosen by each location. Partners ranged from the Delaware Township Food Pantry…