Royalty income is usually the real profit center for a franchisor because of the leveraging ability. For example, imagine a franchise company owns 100 franchised outlets, and each outlet does $30,000 in monthly sales and pays a 5% royalty to the franchise company. That means $1,500 is paid by each franchisee, resulting in $150,000 paid to the franchisor each month (or 100 outlets x $1,500).
Whangara, setting of Whale Rider (film & novel), is located on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. Whitireia = the Maori meeting house built at Whangara in 1939. Pai names Whitireia in her Paikea chant in the Whale Rider film.
Welcome to my How To Survive the Tail of the Dragon page. Deal's Gap (a.k.a... the Tail of the Dragon) is arguably the finest motorcycle road in the US. It is located in the beautiful Smoky Mountains at the Tennessee / North Carolina Border, where US 129 intersects NC 28. For a map of the area, Click HERE The numbers speak for themselves...