United States · Written for operators
A disclosure document with twenty-three items and a fourteen-day clock, thirteen states with a regulator of their own, SBA loans that underwrite the brand and a triple-net lease that underwrites nothing. These guides set out the published figures, name their sources, and say plainly which part of the decision this platform can carry.
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Practical reading for each stage of the decision. Published figures carry sources; these guides are general orientation, not legal advice or a promise of market coverage.
United States · Regulation · 5 min read
Every franchise sold in the United States arrives with a Franchise Disclosure Document and a federal waiting period, and thirteen states add a regulator …
United States · Due diligence · 4 min read
A Franchise Disclosure Document can run past three hundred pages, and much of it is boilerplate. A handful of items carry what a lender, …
United States · Financing · 4 min read
A US franchise unit is usually financed, and often through a lender using a Small Business Administration guarantee. The structures are well published. What …
United States · Property · 4 min read
In most US systems the franchisee finds the location, the franchisor's real estate committee approves it, and the franchisee signs a lease the franchisor …
United States · Economics · 4 min read
A US franchise unit is judged on a short list of ratios, and most of them are percentages of the same number: gross sales. …
United States · For brands · 4 min read
US franchise development has a conversion problem and an opening problem. Lead volume is rarely what limits a system; qualification, broker economics and the …
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