Introduction For many SME founders, franchising feels like the “obvious next step”: you have a proven concept, customers love you locally, and demand is outpacing what you can personally open and manage. Done well, scaling a business through franchising can multiply footprint and brand presence without you funding every new site, because franchisees invest their…
Franchising is often sold as the safe path to business ownership, but is it really? Headlines boast that 99.5% of franchises succeed, a figure that far outshines the 50% three-year failure rate of independent startups. With a proven model and brand recognition, buying a franchise sounds like a guaranteed win. Yet behind the glossy brochures…
More than half of all franchise units in the U.S. are now owned by multi-unit operators. This striking statistic reflects a growing trend: franchisors are increasingly embracing multi-unit expansion as a rapid growth strategy. The allure of signing one franchisee to open multiple outlets is obvious, but it comes with a core controversy: how do…
