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Baskin Robbins, Hugh Williams

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While doing some research I found that a franchise agreement is a binding legal contract that is signed between a franchisor and franchisee. A franchisor is the company owning the rights to grant franchises to franchisees, while a franchisee is a person or entity who is given the right to conduct business by a franchisor or licensor. The most important definition however is that of a franchise which is an authorization granted by the government or company to an individual or group allowing them to carry out certain commercial activities.

The article that I read was called “Baskin-Robbins Franchisee, Hugh Williams” which I will also cite below in further detail. It is a short yet very interesting article about a franchisee named Hugh Williams who was given licensing to open up his own Baskin-Robbins. The article starts out by talking about a little of his background information and how he worked for his parents Baskin-Robbins when he was younger. What is interesting is how he had the dream to open up his own when he got older and he made it happen. He actually graduated from Georgia Tech with an engineering degree which is not something you would expect from the franchisee of an ice cream shop. Even with his love for Baskin-Robbins he still was unsure of himself and he actually sold his shops in 1997 in pursuit of a different career. However he found himself going back to the small ice cream shop as he missed the simplicity of owning one. Hugh eventually became a multi-unit

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