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.
I can be contacted at TheWhaleHasWings@gmail.com. Book 2 - The Whale Has Wings Vol 2 - From Taranto to Singapore. This is the second book in the 'The Whale Has Wings' series. It carries on directly from the action described at the end of Volume 1 - Rebirth.In Rebirth, the British Royal Navy regained control of its Air Arm (the Fleet Air Arm) from the RAF in 1933. hard copy version is available from CreateSpace here. Book 3 - The Whale Has Wings Vol 3 - Holding the Barrier. This is the third book in the series. At the end of Book 2, the Japanese entered the war with a devastating attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor.