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UNDERSTANDING THE RANKING

Welcome to Entrepreneur’s 41st annual Franchise 500® ranking.

For more than four decades, we’ve been studying the franchise industry and honing our proprietary formula in order to bring you the world’s first, best, and most comprehensive franchise ranking. And with each year, the

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