Many team owners are clamoring to see the sport turn into a franchise system, similar to professional football and baseball.
One clever idea is to borrow tactics from retail chains like McDonald's and Subway--operate an easy-to-replicate, owner-operated franchise system focusing on health care.
Cumbrians may just get their wish, too, with Super League expanding to 14 teams in 2009 with the adoption of a franchise system.
Under Chief Executive Julia Stewart, who came over from Applebee's in December 2001, the onetime International House of Pancakes has revamped its franchise system.
"A franchise system would likely create a system that values a franchise more than the need to perform each week at the racetrack, " says Brian France.
"It hit me like a bolt out of the blue, " he recalls: A franchise system would be a way to maintain standards and improve the supply chain.
Hetherington, who is also the chief executive of Super League champions Leeds Rhinos, believes the only way clubs at all levels can grow is by implementing a franchise system.
To turn this on its head, the group Sarvajal, which means Water For All, tackled this issue of ownership by creating a Water ATM and kiosk franchise system in India.
Most of its outlets are run by franchise agents, a system which allowed the company to expand its retail stores rapidly and with relatively few risks last year.
Disclosure documents also include a system's franchise agreement, which is an overview of the requirements of the relationship between the franchiser and franchisee.
With more than one-million players on PC, the Blacklight franchise will bring a new experience to the PS4 system with a further evolution of the futuristic free-to-play first-person shooter.
The development of the shared registry system that ended NSI's exclusive registration franchise allowed the use of longer names.
Much of the 'training' you get from the franchise organization is how to work with their central reservations system and fill out their required forms, anyway.
The game features an overhauled combat system and, for the first time in the franchise, a player-vs-player component.
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Having a franchise that charges 8% of your revenue in royalties and fees, whose reservation system refers to your hotel no more than 8% of your total rooms rented, is like having 14.7 pounds of air pressure in your tire.
Of course, a franchise's financial health is an important factor and franchisees must spend ample time investigating a system.
Sony also announced a number of titles for the system, with Little Deviants, Reality Fighters and Gravity Daze being original games, with franchise titles like Uncharted, Killzone, Wipeout, Resistance, Little Big Planet, Hustle Kings and Hot Shots Golf.
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