Sure you can. Subway keeps showing up on lists of fastest growing franchises by $/year. Boston Market explosively grew on a percentage basis, for awhile. I'm

Sure you can. Subway keeps showing up on lists of fastest growing franchises by $/year. Boston Market explosively grew on a percentage basis, for awhile. I'm not saying those have startup culture or startup financing or startup working conditions or startup salaries, but at least in theory there's no reason a "startup burger joint" couldn't be engineered, the marketplace is very friendly toward carpet bombing the planet with franchises (for a real world example consider a starbucks on every corner and every corner has a starbucks). VC funded franchised restaurant is not unheard of per google. That's before you get into fads. Remember frozen yogurt? On a percentage basis that growth rate was incredible, and there were attempts to franchise, although that food fad went nowhere in the long run.