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    WELCOME TO THE FRANCHISE 500

    Jan 07, 2020 4 minutes

    Food: Quick-Service Restaurants

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    Personal Care

    Children’s Businesses

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    Business Services

    Lodging

    Home Improvement

    Automotive

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    Food: Full-Service Restaurants

    Health

    Food: Retail Sales

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    Tech

    This year’s Franchise 500 raises a philosophical question: Would you rather serve customers’ wants—or their needs?

    Businesses of all types, of course, are designed to serve consumers’ wants or needs. But franchising does it in a particularly stark way. A franchise brand must be exceptionally clear-eyed and mission-focused; it must develop a system so crisp and efficient that it can be replicated tens or hundreds or thousands of times. Therefore, a franchise must truly stake its

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