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Ask most franchise owners how they feel about a pricing change handed down from corporate, and the honest answer usually involves some combination of suspicion, resistance, and a slow walk toward compliance. Multi-unit systems have tried committees, mandates, and system-wide averages to force alignment, and franchisees have pushed back on all three, often for good reason. Patrick Daprile and Dhruv Nathwani built their company, Quantiiv, around a different premise: franchise owners do not need to be told what to do with their pricing. They need to see why it works. Daprile and Nathwani walked Franchise Brief through that philosophy, along…
Ask a data analyst, a marketer, an accountant, or a logistics coordinator what worries them most about the next five years, and a…
Franchise Expo Dallas is set to return to the Dallas-Fort Worth area this September, bringing prospective franchise owners, franchisors and industry professionals together…
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Growth & Strategy
The ideas, emerging concepts, investments, marketing, and strategic moves shaping franchise growth.
For the past two decades, the fitness industry has competed on experience. As boutique concepts reshaped the category, music, instructor personality, community, amenities and atmosphere became the differentiators that attracted members and made brands stand out. Those elements still matter, and at D1 Training, we’ve designed the environment to motivate…
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Operations & Technology
The systems, tools, technology, and operating ideas helping franchise brands and operators perform better.
For decades, getting a pizza followed a familiar routine. Customers either walked into the restaurant, picked up an order at the counter, or waited for a delivery driver connected directly to the brand. That experience has changed considerably. Mobile ordering brought pizza pickup into the digital age. Third-party platforms such…
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Leadership & People
The systems, tools, technology, and operating ideas helping franchise brands and operators perform better.
Workout Anytime has named Peter Stipher its new chief operating officer, adding an experienced executive to its leadership team as the 24/7 fitness franchise builds its next phase of growth. Stipher brings more than two decades of leadership experience across technology, finance, capital markets and franchise operations. In his new…
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Buying a Franchise
Practical guidance for evaluating, buying, and preparing to own a franchise.
For decades, the familiar picture of brick-and-mortar franchise ownership was relatively straightforward: find a retail site, build or lease a standalone location, put the brand’s sign over the door, and begin attracting customers. That picture is changing. Increasingly, franchise brands are looking beyond traditional storefronts and exploring places where customers…
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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…
Randal Moore had no master plan when he followed his mother from Richmond, Virginia down to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He was a young man trying to find his footing, and for a while, nothing quite fit. School felt slow. Local jobs did not pay enough to make the math…
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…
Finding the right location for a restaurant franchise has never been simple, but it has rarely been as consequential as it is today. Rents are elevated. Construction costs have climbed. Permitting timelines stretch in ways that eat into a franchisee’s runway before a single bowl is served. In that environment,…
Most parents know the version of youth sports that feels like a second job. Early morning practices, weekend tournaments, the quiet pressure to pick a sport and commit before a child has figured out what they actually enjoy. Sportball was built as the antidote to all of it. Founded in…
Some businesses are built from spreadsheets and market research. Others start with a craving after a long workout, a stare of wonder at a dessert topping bar, and the kind of loyalty that sneaks up on you before you ever realize it has arrived. For Neil Hershman, the story of…