Tom’s Franchise Information Blog

There are a lot of reasons that franchises are so successful in America. There are a lot of business plans out there but by far the most common and the most successful is the franchise. This article will discuss why this is the most common type of large business and why it is so successful.

First of all they have a lot of brand equity. Brand equity is the value that a brand can give to a product over and above what they product is actually worth. For instance if a McDonald’s hamburger sells for more than one from a mom and pop burger shack but the burgers are for all intents and purposes the same then the price difference is the amount of brand equity.

Second people like to deal with franchises because they know exactly what they will be getting. If you shop at a lot of small businesses then you know that there can be a lot of variability. This means that people never really know what to expect when entering or shopping at the business. This is solved in a franchise by uniformity. In these businesses, the management try’s as much as they can to keep things exactly the same from location to location. This means that at McDonald’s a hamburger in Memphis is going to taste exactly the same as one in Seattle. This helps to sell the product by reducing consumer risk. If someone in Memphis knew that they liked a burger from McDonald’s in Memphis then they also know that they will like one in Seattle, thus reducing the risk of eating at restaurant in Seattle.

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