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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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Franchising is often celebrated for its proven systems, recognizable branding, and strong corporate support. However, the true competitive advantage often comes from the hidden heroes who work diligently behind the scenes, providing specialized expertise that franchisees rely on. Pestmaster’s own Mariah Baggio-Deibler, affectionately known as “Dr. Bugs,” exemplifies this invaluable…
When Magnolia Bakery first opened its doors in 1996 on a quiet street corner in New York’s West Village, nobody could have guessed it would become a globally recognized brand synonymous with mouthwatering cupcakes and legendary banana pudding. Now, nearly three decades later, Magnolia Bakery’s CEO & Chief Baking Officer…
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.…
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…
Michael Jacobson did not set out to revolutionize the floral industry. He set out to help his uncle sell a flower shop. What happened next is the kind of story that makes you believe a little more in the combination of timing, curiosity, and a willingness to follow an unexpected…
There is a problem hiding in plain sight inside franchise development. Brokers and developers are routinely losing 3 to 5 hours a day to operational tasks that have nothing to do with being in conversations: CRM updates, follow-up emails, calendar wrangling, and candidate scheduling that quietly crowds out the conversations…