The growth of franchising is inevitable, because of the inescapable logic of the underlying concept.  Franchising clearly offers aspiring, new business owners the best possible chance of succeeding with the least risk.  Within a decade or less, franchising will compromise over 50% of the retail economy, will employ millions of people, and will enable hundreds of thousands to realize the American dream of successful business ownership.

As the U.S. and world economies grow with the ever increasing populations, and move toward free market economies, new franchise concepts will come on the scene and the solid, well managed existing franchise companies will continue to grow. There is a move toward better protection of franchisee rights and over time this will push more franchisors towards structuring their relationships with their franchisees in a totally win/win manner.  Franchising is evolving, it's getting better conceptually and in reality.  There are greater opportunities for wealth creation among both franchisees and franchisors today more than ever before.

The future of franchising is as bright as the sun and if you want to take the big step and go into business for yourself or if you have an existing business that you want to optimize, then you should look closely at franchising as the vehicle to take you to where you want to be in the 21st century.