It can cost $100,000 just to get permission to franchise
Entrepreneur's guide to franchising your business puts the cost at $100,000 or more and tells founders to ask whether their company can afford it before they start. One franchisor in the piece spent a full year and more than $100,000 qualifying in 45 states. Another waited months for California's comments on its filing.
The advice to founders facing all of that? Hire an experienced franchise consultant to walk you through it.
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Notice who gets quoted in stories like this one: franchise consultants and development firms, an industry built on the process staying long and expensive.
Most of that money never touches your business. It pays someone else to package what you already know. That is the gate. We are the way through it: your answers, our developed templates, AI doing the drafting, a licensed attorney finalizing it, and a flat $25,000 launch.