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For decades, KFC’s iconic bucket has been associated with bringing people together around a meal. But what happens when those people aren’t sitting around a dining room table? What if they’re sitting in a car, heading to…
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In 2005, three years after opening Dogtopia, Amy Nichols was preparing to franchise a business model many people had never encountered. Dogtopia had one location with a second on the way, and dog daycare was still an unfamiliar concept for most people exploring franchise ownership. Nichols knew prospects would arrive…
Ask a data analyst, a marketer, an accountant, or a logistics coordinator what worries them most about the next five years, and a familiar question comes up: is artificial intelligence coming for their job? That anxiety has quietly become one of the more interesting recruiting forces in franchising, not because…
Francis Pierrel spent 25 years building physical retail for fashion brands like Diesel, Lacoste and Ralph Lauren before turning his attention to a different kind of brand expression: the branded product itself, as CEO of LR Paris. He refers to himself as a merchant, with emphasis on the capital M,…
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Buying a Franchise
Practical guidance for evaluating, buying, and preparing to own a franchise.
Most prospective franchisees spend their due diligence on the numbers: initial investment, royalties, unit economics, territory. All of that matters. But one of the most revealing documents in a franchise system rarely shows up on a spreadsheet, and many buyers never ask to see it. It’s the brand standards: the…