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 is the most abundant igneous rock in the Earths crust. Most of the ocean floor is underlain by basalt. It is a volcanic igneous rock, and is typically dark in color because it contains large amounts of iron (Fe) and magnesium (Mg) compared to other igneous rocks.