When you pay franchise costs you also get a lot of know how and ready built supply chain. Those things are probably worth it. It is fried chicken after all - h

When you pay franchise costs you also get a lot of know how and ready built supply chain. Those things are probably worth it. It is fried chicken after all - hardly a challenging item to cook, but to perfect it as a recipe, scale and process for "Nextgrid's artisan non franchised fried chicken" will take probably more than $10k and worse of all will take a lot of time in which you will be paying rent and salaries.