Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Franchises becoming more popular
Franchises have always been a mystery to me. Obviously I go to fast food restaurants and shopping malls, but I have never really thought about what goes on behind the scenes. Then one day at a family party my aunts sister told us that her and her husband and looking into buying a Subway franchise. I seriously didn't know that people could even buy subways or stores or restaurants like that. Like the dunkin donuts, I thought they were like family owned or something, I had no idea that anyone could buy them.
What surprised me the most was how easy they made it seem. As long as you had the money to do it, the rest really was pretty easy to figure out. They had these classes already set out for them and they just had to follow a check list of things to do before they could actually be in charge. It was like just a training period where they had to pass a math test and go to different kinds of classes and then the subway was theirs.
A few months later my friend and previous roommate from freshman and sophomore year was telling me about how her family bought a subway as well. While my aunts sister got rid of it (I'm not exactly sure what happens or what happens with your money) other people were buying them like crazy. It made me really wonder what was so great about that particular franchise or if a lot of different franchises were this hot right now and I just hadn't heard anything about them. I just don't know what makes someone wake up one day and say to themselves, I want a subway. I feel like the classes and the pre-made check list gives you the easy way out. If I were to own a business I would want to go through all of the hard work and fun to make it my own and to really feel accomplished. I probably wouldn't want to take something that was already created and just do that, but apparently that is really the thing to do right now, so maybe in 20 years when I have money (hopefully) I will change my mind and want to do that (well hopefully it won't still be subway), but something along those lines. Sometimes I feel like people buy things like franchises just because they feel like that is the next step and they have the money so they should do it.
Mike @ 3:34 PM