What is "franchises"

Usage examples of "franchises".

As the popularity of his chicken grew, Sanders soon sold hundreds of franchises and eventually became the high-profile pitchman for the booming fast-food chicken industry in America.

Twenty-eight franchises, another dozen boutiques in upscale department stores, a wicker plant in central Pennsylvania, rooms in numerous charity show houses--it boggled my mind, when I stopped to think about it.

Kewpee Hamburgers remained viable throughout the decade, even though more than half its nearly four hundred franchises closed.

Being able to pay these low wages, in fact, enabled many of these franchises to grow, and prosper, at such phenomenal rates.

Big Boy restaurants spread from coast to coast, Wian also sold franchises to other entrepreneurs around the country.

Within a year, Kroc had sold twelve additional franchises in Illinois and Indiana, and one hundred more by the end of the decade.

Although each company owned a small core of its own restaurants, most of their rapid growth was achieved by selling franchises to local or regional entrepreneurs.

It even became common for existing restaurant chains to begin buying franchises from the growing giants.

Burger King phenomenon by either purchasing costly franchises or starting their own chains.

Tunick founded his Chicken Delight chain in 1952 and sold more than four hundred new franchises within a decade.

At the urging of his friend, hamburger stand owner Pete Harman, the sixty-six-year-old Sanders began an aggressive campaign in 1956 to market franchises for his chicken, driving from state to state demonstrating his product to restaurateurs.

We were at the office--Rona, reading USA Today, and I, reviewing the monthly reports from our franchises in Milwaukee, Kansas City, and Charleston.

Milton had been jetting around during the two weeks, checking on his Hercules franchises, but on the Friday preceding the appointment he flew back to New York.

They become a part of that people, with political rights and franchises, only when they are erected into a State, and admitted into the Union as one of the United States.

The State, under the American system, as distinguished from Territory, is not in the domain and population fixed to it, nor yet in its exterior organization, but solely in the political powers, rights, and franchises which it holds from the United States, or as one of the United States.