Multi-Unit Franchisee Magazine Issue II, 2015

OPPORTUNITIES ✓FRANCHISE next franchise Looking for your opportunity? Have we got the tools for you! Find ✓CONFERENCES Multi-Unit Franchising Conference April 8–10! Time to gear up for Las Vegas—and the year’s premier Multi-Unit Franchising Conference. Last year the conference set records for both attendees and suppliers: total attendance was nearly 1,400—with more than 550 franchisees representing 400+ franchisee organizations, 10,000+ operating units, more than $10 billion in annual system-wide revenue, and jobs for more than 200,000 people. Mark your calendar for this year’s MUFC, April 8–10 at Caesars Palace—or April 7–10 if you plan to participate in the annual charity golf tournament. To learn more about the agenda, speakers, sessions, and registration, visit www.multiunitfranchisingconference.com ✓ONLINE Multi-Unit Community Grows Check out our community-based website for multi-unit operators. It’s your exclusive look into the world of multiunit franchising, your one-stop shop to ﬁnd: • New brand opportunities • Exclusive interviews • Networking opportunities • Operator proﬁles • Online edition and archives • Financing resources www.franchising.com/multiunitfranchisees VIDEOS ✓NEW ONLINEExpands EmpireBuilders.tv Great entrepreneurs build great organizations. They possess a knack for making smart business decisions, building great teams, and creating successful companies. But as we’ve learned from years of interviewing successful multi-unit franchisees, they’ve also struggled, doubted, and made more than a few mistakes—yet they’ve soldiered on, persevered, and ultimately come out on top. To provide a deeper sense of their journeys, insights, and personalities, we’re selecting franchisees from our most inspiring print interviews and creating a new series of online videos of these franchisee leaders. We call them Empire Builders. www.franchising.com/empirebuilders 10 articles on companies, concepts, industries, trends, and proﬁles—and search our features. Find franchisors looking for multi-unit franchisees, area reps, and area developers. Search by top opportunities, alphabetically, investment level, industry, state, and more at www. franchising.com ✓RANKINGS Check out our annual rankings of top franchisees and their multi-unit brands and ﬁnd out “Who’s on ﬁrst.” www.franchising.com/ multiunitfranchisees/mu50.html, and www.franchising. com/multiunitfranchisees/mega99.html ✓PRESS OFFICE “Don’t just survive, thrive!” Franchise Update Media’s 2015 Annual Franchise Development Report and the best-selling book Grow to Greatness by Steve Olson offer invaluable tips for franchise sales success and unit growth in today’s economy. For ordering information visit www.franchising.com/ franchisors/afdr.html and www.franchising.com/ franchisors/growtogreatness.html ✓QUICKLINK For a one-click link to articles in this magazine and to past issues of Multi-Unit Franchisee magazine, visit www.franchising.com/ multiunitfranchisees FOOD AND FAMILY “We are not a private equity group or backed by a bunch of investors. This is our hard-earned money that we are investing into our own business. This is a family business, and it is a large family business at that. We are food people in the food industry.” —Harsh Ghai, owner/operator of Ghai Management Services, with 56 Burger Kings, 9 Taco Bells, and 1 Corner Bakery Café MULTI-UNIT FRANCHISEE IS S UEII, 2015 muf2_d_online(10).indd 10 3/16/15 12:41 PM

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