::::: We're agreement on this point: nobody is trying to claim that the restaurants involved in this case were T.G.I. Friday's own restaurants. This one paragraph is located in the "Franchisees" section and identified as "franchised restaurants owned by The Briad Group". But it belongs in this article because these restaurants were "T.G.I. Friday's" restaurants. 
 :::::To play the devil's advocate here, following your logic, anything that franchise restaurants do doesn't belong in this article? Should we subtract franchised restaurants from the "locations" number & remove all countries with only franchise operators?   ]