The only way to become more efficient is to always seek ways to improve operations at the unit or outlet level. Nowhere in modern business is this more important than in a franchise organization. One secret to streamlining operations and eliminating weakness in a Franchise Company is to do constant evaluation and to ask the secret questions, Below is the question and some answers from a regional meeting in Portland, OR in 1999.

What ideas do you have on streamlining, or eliminating any potential weakness?

We do this in our company and quickly surpassed all competition and ended up in a race of our own blasting past the wannabes like a broken down Volkswagon with a ripped out clutch cable. Here is the response we got from one of our franchisees a former high-tech factory worker;