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Advantages Of Restaurant Franchising

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Franchising has always been an effective and efficient means of expanding businesses and there is a firmly established franchise market in the United States and the United Kingdom. Franchising offers several advantages, such as relatively unsaturated markets, transitioning economies, free-trade zones, friendly business laws, and liberalized markets and most of which come from emerging markets. Lots of multinational companies have chosen to franchise as a means to enter the emerging markets because it is governed by a contractual agreement which provides a desirable competitive advantage. (e.g. Paswan and Kantamneni, 2004; Alon, 2004). Trying to Explain the extraordinary growth of restaurant franchising within the United Kingdom and the United States has been one of the major focuses in the academic franchising literature over a couple of years. In the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and some other parts of Western Europe, restaurant franchising has attained domestic market saturation, consequently, emerging markets stay relatively unexploited. The establishment of Restaurant franchising in emerging markets is primarily within the last 20-30 years through corporate franchise agreements and master franchises, and to some extent, conversion franchising and joint venture franchising (Alon, I., Falbe, C.M., and Welsh1 …show more content…

has been proven to be successful through franchising. Annually, franchising accounts for the turnover of over USD$850 billion in America, USD$300 billion in Europe, and USD$130 billion in Australia. International restaurants such as Jamie's Italian, and Wagamama have used franchising to grow their business in both traditional economies and emerging markets successfully. US-owned restaurants such as McDonald's, Domino's Pizza, Dine Equity and IHOP have been at the forefront of international franchising for a long

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