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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. A royalty percentage tells a prospective franchisee how much of a defined revenue base is payable to the franchisor. What it does not reveal, by itself, is how that royalty interacts with the margins of the underlying business. That distinction can become especially important in project-based and service businesses, where…
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Growth & Strategy
The ideas, emerging concepts, investments, marketing, and strategic moves shaping franchise growth.
Franchise Expo Dallas is set to return to the Dallas-Fort Worth area this September, bringing prospective franchise owners, franchisors and industry professionals together for two days of networking, education and business development. MFV Expositions and Comexposium will host the event on Sept. 18th and 19th at the Irving Convention Center…
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Operations & Technology
The systems, tools, technology, and operating ideas helping franchise brands and operators perform better.
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…
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Leadership & People
The systems, tools, technology, and operating ideas helping franchise brands and operators perform better.
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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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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…