Posted on 03/05/2015 3:12:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Are franchises small, independent businesses or should they be considered part of a much larger company?
The question is at the heart of two upcoming legal cases. The outcomes could affect profits and change how franchisees hire, fire, manage and pay workers.
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Destroying the franchise business model will be in helpful to facilitating a thriving economy.
Care to clarify what you mean by that, or maybe repost it in English?
I think it was sarcasm, but I could be wrong.
Franchises are a unique form of business imho. I’ve heard business profs make a good case that they aren’t like an entrepreneurial business because most aspects, if not all, are dictated to the owner.
You can’t infere sarcasm?
Sheesh. ..
Worked for franchisors for 10 years. You’re partly correct. What franchisees are buying is essentially a (theoretically) working business model. And in some cases the advantages of mass marketing outside the realm of possibility for an individual restaurant, etc.
But I can guarantee you that being successful requires considerable work and attention to detail by the franchisee.
” they aren’t like an entrepreneurial business because most aspects, if not all, are dictated to the owner.”
Nonsense. Ask a business owner who took venture capital, a loan or an investor how free they are.
I only has one biz prof who was worth a damn, and he was a very successful business owner who just like to teach.
Progressives HATE small businesses. A few large corporations are easier to control.
A business attorney once told me he thought indentured servitude was illegal until he represented companies setting up franchises.
I’ve heard that buying a Subway franchise is like buying yourself a minimum-wage job, and not a $13 an hour minimum wage.
Which is exactly why they love to increase the minimum wage.
McDonald’s Told It Has Responsibility Over Store Workers
Any time the government regulates long-entrenched business models to fundamentally change their structure, it makes it more difficult for the businesses to function because it changes their underlying cost and operational structure.
Many franchises can be scams or abusive. Those that are not, can allow people to leverage a successful business model.good to put the breaks on the scams and abusive relationships of some franchises.
Making McDonald’s liable for its franchisees is reasonable and one would think they would want to anyway as it is their reputation on the line. But, if the law says they have no say, then don’t penalize them.
For God’s sake, go away. You’re a retard.
What’s YOUR problem? All you can do is choke and offer insults?
Very intelligent. /s
The NLRB needs to be abolished. It’s nothing but communism. What they are trying to do is repeal franchise contract law, making franchise ownership less profitable and more difficult to expand. Next they will outlaw robots and ordering kiosks, which a lot of food businesses are looking at.
The type of people that make up the nrlb are the same types that call the state health inspector on your local private picnic event.
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