Franchise Intelligence

Roughly 40% of CAM reconciliation statements carry a material billing error. Here is where franchise operators overpay on CAM charges, and how to audit the statement before you pay.

When a franchise routes most of a category through one approved supplier, a single failure can halt every location at once. A look at franchise supplier concentration risk and how to map it.

The FDD renewal deadline is not a filing date, it is the day your right to sell a franchise in a state can switch off. Here is how registration states and the 120-day federal rule trip up growing brands.

Signed but not opened is the franchise pipeline number nobody reads. Item 20 reveals how many awarded units never open, and why financing is usually the reason.

Franchise vendor rebates are real supplier income, yet systems that book the quarterly check without reconciliation lose three to seven percent of it. Here is where it leaks.

Every new state a franchise enters adds a labor law jurisdiction. Here is how multi-state wage, scheduling, and overtime rules compound into liability, and how to map the exposure.

When anchor tenants close, a franchise co-tenancy clause can cut your rent or let you exit, yet most multi-unit operators never invoke it. How the clause works and how to claim it.

Franchise manager turnover gets filed as a hiring cost. The bigger number is the same-store sales drag when an experienced GM leaves and the unit loses its operating memory.

Unredeemed gift cards sit on franchise balance sheets as real obligation, exposed to breakage rules and state escheatment laws. Franchise gift card liability is bigger than most networks track.