As an idea there is nothing wrong, infact it is brilliant! Not very unlike fast food franchise business, or Coca Cola bottling franchise - corporate puts in st

As an idea there is nothing wrong, infact it is brilliant! Not very unlike fast food franchise business, or Coca Cola bottling franchise - corporate puts in standards, best practices, supplies 'secret sauce' (some times literally), invests massively in branding and advertising which would be way out of thinking league of small time owners of the outlets. If this was done purely from problem solving perspective (and not as 'growth hack'), then it would have worked beautifully.