Many major businesses are franchises including restaurants like McDonalds and Pizza hut. Some hotels like Hampton inns are franchises. Supercuts, Jiffy lube and 7/11 are a few other examples for franchises.
MCdonalds, kfc, dominoes etc
Subway has over 33,749 franchises. Subway now beats McDonalds in having more franchises. Subway is the largest food chain in the world, with over 600 in the Los Angeles area alone.
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Yes, it does. Actually, most McDonalds restaurants in the world are franchises.
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McDonalds has almost 35,000 restaurants located all over the world. As of 2012, the US is home to 14,157 of these franchises.
According to the Entrepreneur website, some of the top franchises from 2012 were Hampton Hotels, Subway, McDonalds, and Supercuts. For a full listing check out the official Entrepreneur website.
At last count there were 16,635 franchises in the United States. Starbucks has some thoughts of some day surpassing McDonalds in franchise numbers.
Yes a franchise has limited liability only the investment put into will be lost
There are many "hot" franchises to own. It depends upon what industry you are interested in. Many people think of fast food when they mention franchises, but there are dozens of different industries like Automotive, Business Services, Child Franchises, Fitness Franchise, Healthcare Franchises, Coffee Franchises, Mobile Franchises, and many many more.
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