A franchise is certainly a way to succeed in business. It gives you a great blueprint to follow that a company has already established as a way to do business and penetrate the market.
But with a franchise you also have a very rigid framework to follow and you cannot deviate from that at all. So if you see an opportunity in your specific market and you want to add or change the approach, you simply cannot. And you will always pay them between 6 and 12% of your profits.
Well the franchise is a good opportunity for some people, it is never been a serious consideration for us. We value the freedom of flexibility and believe that the definition of entrepreneurship is freedom.