This really hits home, having grown up working at a franchise. We were acquaintances with another Mcdonald's franchisee who got equally screwed by corporate whe

This really hits home, having grown up working at a franchise. We were acquaintances with another Mcdonald's franchisee who got equally screwed by corporate when they convinced him to spend a quarter of a million dollars renovating his store, which happened to be located in a terrible neighborhood. They also asked him to make it open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As a franchisee, he was not able to tell Mcdonald's corporate no, and sure enough a year later he was broke, having spent all that money and seen no return. He hung himself shortly thereafter.