franchisee

In addition to the other responses, McDonald's franchises require substantial investment on the part of the franchisee.

It is illustrative to read through some of the franchisee message boards where Subway owners talk.

A franchisee exercises management control that can affect profit and loss, can subcontract work performed,etc.

That leaves the franchisee since McDs, the corporation, is not going to be that involved.

This is a typical franchisee arrangement to ensure quality uniformity across the franchise [1].

It's highly unlikely that a franchisee could shut down one day without corporate approval.

A McDonald's franchisee has much more discretion in how they operate their business.

The franchisee still needs just as much land to serve his customers; the fee you can charge him has to take that into account.

Based on what I've read so far, it sounds like if I purchase a Wheely's cart, I almost a franchisee.

Plus, the franchisor can penalize the franchisee, or revoke the franchise outright.

The City gets 5% of RCN's gross revenue as a franchisee fee.

A former co-worker had a friend who became a burrito chain franchisee.

The deal, in that case, wasn't technically "exclusive", but it did require that any additional franchisee provide equal or better service.

This is not a unique cross we have to bear -- every dentist, lawyer, McDonalds franchisee, etc has the same "problem." The vast majority are never targeted by the Internet hate machine.

After reading the article, apparently the conclusion was that a local Haagan Daz franchisee (The store had local ownership by an Indian Citizen) wants to introduce the Haagen Daz Brand in _India_, and the "International Passport" idea was there to talk up how premium the brand was.