QSRweb.com (blog):
If you are an entrepreneur and you have one, two or even three operations, why should you be thinking about franchising? There are many reasons, but here are the top 5:
1. I have a brand that I want to expand but lack the capital to do it by myself. Franchising provides you with the vehicle to expand using the capital of others, your franchisees.
2. I want to expand rapidly. Franchising provides you with the ability to grow faster than if you opened units on your own.
3. I don’t have the human resources to open units on my own. As a franchisor, that is not your responsibility, it is the franchisee who has to staff each location, not the franchisor.
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