Franchise. There are benefits to a corporate owned chain and a franchised chain. restaurant image by Dmitry Nikolaev from Fotolia.com. As a business grows there are many strategic decisions that must be addressed.
Town of Basalt The Town of Basalt is a Statutory Town in Eagle and Pitkin counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. The town population was 3,857 at the 2010 United States Census
Most of Earth's basalt is produced at divergent plate boundaries on the mid-ocean ridge system (see map). Here convection currents deliver hot rock from deep in the mantle. This hot rock melts as the divergent boundary pulls apart, and the molten rock erupts onto the sea floor.