Franchise groups
Store development software for multi-unit franchise groups
A franchise group pays for its stores and builds them to the franchisor's standards. The development agreement sets the pace and each franchisor signs off on plans before work starts, while a single remodel mandate can reach 200 stores in the same year. RolloutIQ gives your development and construction team one place to run it for every brand you operate.
Who it's for
Built for the operators who own most of the units
Multi-unit franchisees control 58.8% of franchised locations in the US, according to FRANdata's research for the IFA 2026 outlook. The larger groups run development like a company, where in-house construction managers direct outside general contractors against a pipeline of signed commitments to open.
Multi-unit franchisees
You operate anywhere from 30 locations of one brand to several hundred, under a development agreement. RolloutIQ tracks each committed site from the deal to opening day against the agreement deadlines you record on it.
Multi-brand operators
Several brands under one roof means several prototypes and several franchisor reviews. Brand is a field on every store, so you can look at one brand's pipeline or the whole company's without switching tools.
Holding companies and PE platforms
A portfolio you buy comes with its remodel obligations. Acquired stores go into the same workspace, and our team handles the bulk load during onboarding.
The pressure
Where franchise development gets hard
A franchisee carries the construction risk on a timeline the franchisor wrote. These are the pressures that come up most, with the public record behind each one.
Development schedules with consequences
An area development agreement ties your territory to opening deadlines. Planet Fitness describes its agreements as requiring franchisees to meet scheduled deadlines for each club, and the territorial protection holds only while those deadlines are met.
Franchisor sign-off at every gate
Plans usually need the franchisor's written approval before construction starts, and a final inspection before you can open. Each brand runs its own review, so one slow approval moves an opening date you promised in the agreement.
Remodel mandates on the franchisor's clock
Burger King's 2022 plan priced a light remodel near $500,000 and a full rebuild at up to $1.8 million, and a franchisee in the program pays that for store after store on the franchisor's deadline.
Construction costs and crews
In the IFA's 2024 franchisee survey, 30% of franchisees said construction and development costs had a large impact on their business. Contractors are stretched too, with 45% of firms in the AGC's 2025 survey reporting projects delayed by worker shortages.
58.8%
of US franchised locations are controlled by multi-unit franchisees
FRANdata for the IFA, 2026
41%
of franchisees with 25 or more units run more than one brand, four on average
FRANdata, 2025
$57.4B
in 2025 revenue across the 200 largest US restaurant franchisees
Franchise Times Restaurant 200, 2026
30%
of franchisees report a large impact from construction and development costs
IFA Annual Franchisee Survey, 2025
How RolloutIQ fits
One workspace for every brand you build
Everything here ships today, and each one lines up with work a franchise development team is already doing by hand.
Programs
The work franchise groups run
Each page walks through one program step by step, using the parts of RolloutIQ that fit it.
By industry
Franchise-heavy industries we cover
Each of these industry pages has a section on the franchise side of the business.
FAQ
Franchise group FAQ
Yes. Brand is a field on every location, and the reports, the project list, and Portfolio Explorer all filter by it, while Portfolio Explorer and portfolio health can also group by it. Most groups keep every brand in one workspace so leadership sees the whole company. A brand can run as its own workspace if you need hard separation, though reports will not combine across workspaces.
You can add any outside firm, including a franchisor's construction or design team, to the projects and locations you choose. A company role sets what its people can do, and their access stops at those projects.
There is no dedicated development agreement module. Teams add the agreement deadline as a custom date field on each store or project. Once a site has a project, Portfolio Explorer shows that deadline next to the planned date of its opening milestone, and sites still in the deal stage sit in the Locations list.
Our team handles bulk migration as part of onboarding, since there is no self-serve importer for a whole portfolio. Send us the store list you have and we load it with the brands, regions, and markets you use.
RolloutIQ holds the approved budget for each project and every governed change to it, so exposure across the portfolio is visible as budgets move. Invoices, purchase orders, and payments stay in your accounting system.
Sources
- FRANdata, U.S. Franchising's Economic Outlook in 2026 (Feb 2026)
- Franchising.com, The growing influence of multi-unit, multi-brand franchisees (Jan 2025)
- Franchise Times, Restaurant 200: meet the largest franchisees in the country (Jul 2026)
- International Franchise Association, 2024 Annual Franchisee Survey (Feb 2025)
- Planet Fitness, Form 10-K for fiscal 2024 (SEC)
- El Pollo Loco, form franchise agreement (SEC exhibit, 2024)
- Restaurant Brands International, Reclaim the Flame (Sep 2022)
- AGC, 2025 Workforce Survey (Aug 2025)
See your opening pipeline by brand
Show us how your franchisors ask for reporting, and we will walk you through a multi-brand pipeline in RolloutIQ, from a signed commitment through the franchisor's final inspection to opening day.