Week 8 learning
activity
Learning Activity # 1
A. Discuss
2 advantages and 2
disadvantages of a franchise and why?
B. If a small
business applied for a bank loan money to finance the initial franchising
process and start up, what factors would be important to a bank to decide
whether to loan the money?
Learning Activity # 2
US Diner, a small restaurant business and general
partnership with 7 partners is a very profitable, successful business located
in Baltimore. US Diner has 3 restaurants
in the Baltimore are. US Diner wants to
expand its business and is considering doing so by franchising within the US.
A. Analyze and
discuss whether you would advise US Diner to franchise the business and why.
B. After evaluating
the positive and negatives, should US Diner franchise or expand the business in
some other way?
