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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…
There is a concept in Olivia Fox Cabane’s book The Charisma Myth that stopped me cold when I first read it. Cabane describes what she calls “focus charisma,” the rare ability to make another person feel, in that precise moment, as though they are the only person in the room.…
There is a version of the working parent’s morning that everyone knows too well. The alarm goes off before the sun does. Breakfast is whatever survives the scramble. The drop-off runs long, the commute does not cooperate, and somewhere between the car and the desk, the gym visit that was…
Franchising a business is not a single event. It is a series of decisions, each one made at a different stage of growth, each one carrying its own set of risks. For brands navigating that journey without a roadmap, the margin for error compounds quickly. For those who work alongside…
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…
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…
Moving is rarely just a moving truck and a new address. For many families, the hardest part is not logistics. It’s the moment when a parent’s life changes, and the home that once felt stable becomes complicated, unsafe, or simply too much to manage. Smooth Transitions exists for that moment.…