Sentence examples for franchises about from inspiring English sources

Vicorp operates and franchises about 370 restaurants in the Rocky Mountain region, upper Midwest, Florida, California and Arizona.

BRINKER INTERNATIONAL INC., Dallas, which owns, operates or franchises about 1,060 restaurants, said it would buy 47 restaurants in the Northeast from a franchisee, NE RestaurantCo., for about $93 million.

The latest entries in franchises about clumsy cops and talking dogs are among the first 25 films and television series that have qualified for production tax credits offered by the State of California, Variety reported.

Over lunch at the Capital Hilton in Washington last week, Mr. Woodward, whose day job is assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, spoke to more than 300 owners of Meineke Muffler, Dunkin' Donuts, Lawn Doctor and other franchises about the Bush administration, the war in Iraq and more.

KFC is the largest fast-food chicken chain in the U.S.; the company owns or franchises about 12,800 outlets with about 40% of those in America.

"If women ran Hollywood, there would be hit romantic comedies about hunky male strippers, hugely successful film franchises about sparkly vampires and music and dancing competition shows would dominate the airwaves -- wait, are we sure women don't already run Hollywood?" quipped actor Joel McHale when questioned about the subject by The Hollywood Reporter in December 2012.

"We have a close relationship with the government, to make sure that they understand what franchising is about and the necessity to protect our brand," Hunt says.

As it happened, New Orleans was trying to get a football franchise about the same time.

So, of course, is the "Shrek" franchise about Steig's moody and complicated ogre.

There must be some other brand of toy Bay can make a franchise about.

The franchise about which the kindest thing Pittsburgh sports fans say is, "They keep us humble"?