Franchise businesses are great in that they have much higher success rates than starting a business from scratch.
If you want to start a franchise or expand your current one, you need a business plan.
The following business plan template gives you the key elements to include in a winning plan for your franchise business. It can be used to create a franchise restaurant business plan, a store franchise business plan, a startup business franchise or any other type of franchise business plan. In addition to this template, all franchise business plans should also include market research to help support the business opportunity and help craft your marketing plan and financial projections.
Below are links to each of the key sections of a business plan to help you with how to create a franchise business plan:
I. Executive Summary
II. Company Overview
III. Industry Analysis
IV. Customer Analysis
V. Competitive Analysis
VI. Marketing Plan
VII. Operations Plan
VIII. Management Team
IX. Financial Plan
Click below to see each section of our free franchise business plan template. You can also click here to get our franchise business plan sample pdf.
Dave Lavinsky is the co-founder of BusinessPlanTemplate.com and is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of business planning, capital raising, and new venture development. Over the past two decades, Dave has guest lectured at top universities, written over 200 business plans, and has written hundreds of articles on entrepreneurship, business planning and capital-raising. He is also the author of Start At The End: How Companies Can Grow Bigger and Faster By Reversing Their Business Plan, published by Wiley in November 2012. He has helped over 1 million entrepreneurs launch businesses over the past 25 years. Dave has an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia.