How Franchise Restaurants Opened the Door to the Gig Economy
The episode explores the franchise economy through a conversation with Brian Callaci, chief economist at the Open Markets Institute and author of Chains of Command. He unpacks how franchising, while marketed as entrepreneurial independence, is in reality a tightly controlled system where
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