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In reply to the discussion: You thought Papa John's was bad... have you heard what Jimmy John's founder said? [View all]jmowreader
(50,554 posts)Jimmy John's, like...oh, pretty much every fast food chain...is a franchisor. To put it as crudely as I can, a franchisee rents the name of the business from the national office. They then get the privilege of using the trade dress and recipes prepared by the national office. The advantage to the franchisee is simple: it cuts down risk tremendously because you don't have to establish yourself; the national office has already taken care of that for you.
Given that Jimmy John's is more of a loose collection of independent businessmen than it is a huge monolithic company, does the government add up every employee in every franchisee's operation and claim the franchisor employs them all for purposes of calculating ACA employee headcount, or (as is almost certain) does ABC's one store with 30 employees count separately from DEF's 75? And what happened to the concept that you raise prices to cover expenses like everyone else is going to have to do? Jimmy John's isn't a cheap place to eat and I don't think 50 cents per sandwich is going to drive all its business to Subway.