For franchisors
Improve franchisee profitability without changing the guest experience.
Your franchisees don't need another royalty increase. They need more EBITDA — and most of it is already sitting in their finance and vendor lines.
Franchisee profitability is the franchisor's balance sheet problem
Royalty growth is a function of franchisee health. Development pipelines stall when unit-level coverage ratios weaken. Transfers get harder when buyers underwrite thin four-wall margin. Every one of those problems improves when franchisee EBITDA improves — and none of them require touching the guest.
We run the below-the-line categories that no single franchisee has the leverage or bandwidth to fix on their own: payment processing and interchange, procurement and delivered food cost, employee benefits and payroll tax structure, delivery commissions and dispute recovery, vendor contracts, utilities, POS costs and off-P&L revenue programs.
Healthier unit economics
Recovered margin lands in four-wall EBITDA, which is the number lenders, buyers and development committees underwrite.
More development capacity
Franchisees with stronger coverage ratios build more units. Margin recovery funds growth without a single royalty adjustment.
Fewer distressed operators
The groups most at risk are usually the ones overpaying the most in below-the-line categories, because they have the least bandwidth to audit them.
A benefit you can announce
A profitability program is one of the few franchisor initiatives that costs the franchisee nothing and shows up in their P&L within a quarter or two.
Run the numbers for your system
Enter system-wide unit count and average unit volume to see the aggregate recovery available to your franchisees.
Open the savings calculatorWhat franchisors ask us
No. Every lever sits below the line the guest sees: processing rates, benefit structures, delivery dispute recovery, vendor contracts, utilities, payroll tax credits. No menu changes, no staffing changes, no equipment mandates.
Three ways, depending on appetite. As a sponsor, you introduce the program and franchisees opt in individually. As a standard, approved programs enter the supplier list. As an observer, you receive aggregate reporting on adoption and realized savings without touching contracts.
Nothing. Engagements are paid on realized outcomes at the franchisee level. The franchisor's contribution is credibility and communication.
Favorably. Improved franchisee EBITDA raises unit-level coverage ratios, supports lending for remodels and new builds, and reduces the number of distressed operators in the system.