Drive down Main Street in your average residential town. You will see plenty of franchise restaurants lining the roads. They have bright, attractive signs and neat landscaping, plenty of parking, and you know what you're getting into when you eat at one. Mixed among these clean and convenient restaurants are family owned restaurants, or "mom and pop food shacks." Restaurants like these are uglier, dirtier, and packed with a lower quality of customer. People who eat at regular restaurants are normal, well behaved people. However if you've ever been in one of these hole-in-the-wall food shacks, you know that they're filled with noisy diners and obnoxious misbehaving children, all of whom throw food all over the restaurant. It's this type of distinction that makes eating at a normal restaurant a much more pleasant and professional experience.
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Filthy Kitchens: one might expect this
to be a common scene in family run restaurants.
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Similar phenomena are occurring in all sorts of businesses across America. Restaurants are just one piece of the puzzle. Book stores, clothing stores, and even hardware stores owned by individuals and families litter American streets. I certainly would not feel safe entering a hardware store not run by the proper franchise management, would you? There could be sharp nails, falling hammers, and many other hazards that you would never find in a properly run hardware store. And just like with restaurants, the customers found inside these privately owned businesses and shops are rowdier and dirtier.
Why are Americans still allowing these filthy small businesses to exist in their towns, when there are so many larger commercial options. Franchise businesses are invariably cheaper as well. In this time of recession, are your finacnes any matter to leave up to some overcharging greedy mom or pop? I think not.
