"I didn't think our customer base was that discerning, " says Ned Kirby, a franchisee in Noblesville, Indiana.
"I didn't think our customer base was that discerning, " says Ned Kirby , a franchisee in Noblesville, Ind.
Walton was a franchisee (in addition to having opened his first Wal-Mart store, two years earlier, in Arkansas).
If a franchisee repeatedly fails to hit the minimum standards, Ledsinger's only real option is to pull his flag.
InterGlobe today is a franchisee of Galileo, represents companies like Hawker Beechcraft, Sikorsky, Dornier Seaplane and Pacific Aerospace.
Then he tried his hand as a franchisee for another Quebec operator, Provi-Soir, but chafed at the corporate mandates.
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That is something that Gymboree had in China for a while, through a franchisee before, through 200 centers around China.
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Before making any decision to buy a franchise, work a few days on site with a franchisee at their location.
In actuality, Stone says they are happy if an athlete goes through their education and decides not to become a franchisee.
D. facts from any franchisor to show the odds of how successful a franchisee prospect can be over the term of ten years?
Nobody has signed on yet to be a franchisee.
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Operators could now pinpoint lingering problems, like consistent burger sloppiness, and ignore a one-time ding such as a dirty bathroom, says Irwin S. Kruger, a franchisee with seven stores in New York.
The electricity would charge the batteries of devices like lanterns, fans, televisions, mobile battery packs, and even scooters, and these products would be provided to a franchisee who would rent them to customers in the community.
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In 1977, aged 15, he dropped out of school to work full-time on the four sewing machines he had bought with his savings. (He still speaks only Arabic.) By the time Benetton came to Syria to scout for a franchisee in the mid-1990s, Mr Samha owned a factory exporting clothes to Europe.
On the other hand, if a franchisee insists he has to go above and beyond a brand standard to compete--say, by offering free broadband Internet service or extra pillows--Ledsinger has to know when to say okay. (Chains need to police the impulses to go up market, too, lest their other units suffer by comparison.) The warmth and fuzziness, he hopes, will trickle down.
Training at HU and in the field can last for two years before a prospective franchisee gets a store.
Currently 6% of Couche-Tard's stores have a Subway, Quiznos, Dunkin' Donuts or the like, where Couche-Tard acts like a typical franchisee (and not like a get-'em-in, get-'em-out convenience store).
More recently, there is a story extant about a pizza chain franchisee of a parent company that was going bust.
Moseley remembers walking out of a meeting with a potential franchisee and seeing the boys and their father screaming at one another in the parking lot.
In this case the factor was Liquid Capital, a chain of financiers headquartered in Toronto. (It's one of two such franchised factoring operations in North America, the other being Interface Financial Group in Irvine, Calif.) Under this arrangement, Lee Doernberg, a Liquid franchisee in Alpharetta, Ga.
The diversification, along with a bunch of franchisee lawsuits over excessively marked-up food, forced Katz to bail out.
This move may be the best bet Burger King has as TAB Gida is a long time franchisee and operates more than 450 Burger King restaurants in Turkey.
How best to resolve serious disputes between franchiser and franchisee remains a matter of, well, disagreement.
"It's hard to sit there and watch people eat McDonald's french fries and not go buy your own, " says Ted Lezotte, a McDonald's franchisee in northern Michigan who owns four restaurants.
The man who got his start as a McDonald's franchisee now has the Starbucks (nasdaq: SBUX - news - people ) franchise in Malaysia and is finalizing similar agreements with U.S.' Krispy Kreme (nyse: KKD - news - people ) and Papa John's Pizza, which he hopes to develop not just in Malaysia but throughout Asia.
The franchiser owns a trademark or brand, which he (or she) agrees to allow the franchisee to use for a fee (often an original purchase price plus a percentage of sales).
The franchisee buys into a proven business plan and considerable expertise.
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