Franchisee Org Charts: The Team Behind Every Franchise Location

A modern franchise group is no longer a solo entrepreneur, or a small team. It’s an entire organization. Running dozens of operationally heavy units requires an army of talent across supply chain, real estate, marketing, finance, and development.

Unlike most industries at this scale, these organizations are nearly invisible online. An operator running 50+ units won’t have a LinkedIn profile. A franchise group generating tens of millions in annual profit won’t invest in a website.

Until now, “only those who know, know.” Information traveled exclusively through private networks — a neighbor, a former employee, an industry insider. But this data was never organized and made accessible.

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Compare that to venture capital. Every deal comes with a press release. Founders and partners post generously. The knowledge compounds publicly — which is exactly why new startup founders knew exactly which VCs to target and how exactly to reach them.

Franchising has never had that. So we have made it our mission to map all 832,521 franchise locations to their owners: whether a single-unit operator, a multi-unit company or a multi-unit multi-brand organization (MUMBO).

A map with locations of all Pizza Hut units

Knowing the exact target person changes everything for enterprise sales. You can’t blast a message to thousands of anonymous locations and expect results. But if you know that Greg Flynn’s organization has a Chief Development Officer making infrastructure decisions across hundreds of units and eight brands. You know exactly who to call.

Example of an organizational chart for a large franchise group