Subway has over 33,749 franchises. Subway now beats McDonalds in having more franchises. Subway is the largest food chain in the world, with over 600 in the Los Angeles area alone.
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As a business oppurtunity Subway is listed among the best food franchises. In number of franchises they are just outside the top five.
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Subway is overseen by Doctor's Associates, a company run solely to oversee Subway franchises and run by Fred De Luca and Peter Buck, the original founders of the Subway chain.
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According to the Entrepreneur website, some of the top franchises from 2012 were Hampton Hotels, Subway, McDonalds, and Supercuts. For a full listing check out the official Entrepreneur website.
Popular franchises include Subway, McDonald's, Wendy's International, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, KFC, UPS Store, TCBY Treats, Taco Bell, and Jani-King.
No. Although there were as many as 1000 more Subway franchises worldwide than McDonald's, the revenue of the hamburger chain is much larger. In 2011 McDonald's had $24 billion USD compared to $15.2 billion for Subway. Because more of the McDonald's are company-owned, the capitalization and valuation is also much larger.
There are many "hot" franchises to own. It depends upon what industry you are interested in. Many people think of fast food when they mention franchises, but there are dozens of different industries like Automotive, Business Services, Child Franchises, Fitness Franchise, Healthcare Franchises, Coffee Franchises, Mobile Franchises, and many many more.
The most well known Canadian franchises are Pizza Pizza, Shoppers Drug Mart, Harvey's, Tim Horton's, McDonald's, Canadian Tire, Sports Experts, and Subway.
Subway have said on one of their promotion pages "SUBWAY®outlets can be opened for as little as c. £100,000. Your total initial investment will depend on many factors including location, rent, outlet size and equipment." and then goes on to say "The franchise fee of $10,000 (about £6,000) for outlets is one of the lowest on the market, despite the size of the chain. To encourage multi-unit operation, the franchise fee is reduced to $2,500 (about£1,500) for additional franchises and as a result, 70% of franchises are purchased by existing owners!!" hope this helps