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
basalt. n. 1. (Geological Science) a fine-grained dark basic igneous rock consisting of plagioclase feldspar, a pyroxene, and olivine: the most common volcanic rock and usually extrusive. See flood basalt. 2. (Ceramics) a form of black unglazed pottery resembling basalt.