Having said that, I talked about this with a guy who dealt with franchisees for a major company. He had people who were successful and people who bombed. The winners were the ones that took it on as a job. The losers were ones who were really into being “the boss” and would hire a high school kid to be the manager and take vacations whenever they wanted because there was nobody to tell them they couldn’t. Look for two things. Will they buy it back? Expect the answer to be “yes, with a certain number of months notice”. Will they give you an exclusive territory? A certain national sub shop doesn’t and, if you’re doing well, will put another one down the road from you and offer to let you buy it, thus either halving your sales or doubling your costs.