Word: franchisee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The big question in the Hilton chain is who will take Hilton's place once he-steps down. The betting is that it will not be any of his sons (all of whom are by his first marriage; he and Zsa Zsa have a daughter, Francesca, 16). His eldest...
As it opened its sooth store last week, a coast-to-coast chain known as McDonald's Hamburgers was busily changing the neon signs that have long recorded how many million hamburgers it has sold. Now the signs will flash the figures in billions, a success reflecting the bustling...
Critics say that the common standards enforced are apt to be low ones, and blame franchise operations for both the bland sameness of food and service and the repetitive look of the neon-and-chrome shacks and stands that dot the nation's roadsides. The U.S. Justice Department argues...
Chicago-based McDonald's Hamburgers, only eight years old, boasts that not one of its franchisees has ever lost money; it has four planes cruising the country to pick out good sites for them, also sends newcomers to its "Hamburger U.," where they take three-week cram courses in everything from advertising to janitoring. Businessmen who take a franchise promise to meet "standards" set by the franchiser, to buy equipment and supplies from him, and sometimes to hand over a share of the gross...
France's Françoise Sagan is the most famous example: at 18, she coolly chronicled how a girl grows up by driving her prospective stepmother to suicide (Bonjour Tristesse). In Le Rempart des Beguines, Belgium's Franchise Mallet-Joris, at 20, documented a listless daughter's...