{"id":22551,"date":"2020-04-08T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T11:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/franchise-agreement\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:22:02","slug":"franchise-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/franchise-agreement","title":{"rendered":"Franchise Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Franchise Agreement in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The franchise agreement is the legal contract that binds a <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/franchisor\">franchisor<\/a> and <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/franchisee\">franchisee<\/a> in business.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise agreement is a contract that generally consists of terms and clauses that specify as to how a business (franchisor) agrees to provide another party (franchisee) with the company\u2019s brand, services, operation methods and any other support to operate a similar business in exchange for a initial payment as well as a percentage of the generated income in form of a monthly re-occurring fee (<a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/royalty-fee\">royalty fee<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A franchise agreement is normally negotiable, and can range in durations of a year to even undetermined amount of years. Most common example of a <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/franchisor\">fr<\/a>a<a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/franchisor\">nc<\/a>hisor is McDonalds, as the world\u2019s largest franchise network. In the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel-industry\">hotel industry<\/a> franchises are very common as they allow independent hotels to benefit from the marketing power of greater brands or companies. Thereby allowing them a greater reach far beyond anything their own resources could buy. Additionally to this the franchisee benefits from advice, SOPs, simple business financing, support and security and overall less likely to fail. On the other hand, being a franchisor means loosing control over many aspects of your own company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel-franchise\">Hotel Franchise<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/franchisor\">Franchisor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/franchisee\">Franchisee<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/franchise-fee\">Franchise fee<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/royalty-fee\">Royalty Fee<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Franchise Disclosure Document<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Franchise Agreement in  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f","category-glossary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Franchise Agreement Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Definition: The franchise agreement is the legal contract that binds a franchisor and franchisee in business\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/franchise-agreement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Franchise Agreement Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Definition: The franchise agreement is the legal contract that binds a franchisor and franchisee in business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/franchise-agreement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Xotels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-08T11:23:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-23T09:22:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Patrick Landman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@xotels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Patrick Landman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/franchise-agreement#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/franchise-agreement\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Patrick Landman\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f51e882bd553ae1b905fc0214cdca6f5\"},\"headline\":\"Franchise Agreement\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-08T11:23:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-23T09:22:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/franchise-agreement\"},\"wordCount\":221,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"F\",\"Hotel Terminology &amp; 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