button upped? i think for us it was very buttoned up. i think was everything written down? i think there s things that as you do the business for a few years, you might just assume it s known. so i think you re kind of fine tuning so write everything down. you re fine tune to go make sure everything is written down. i think that s critical. what s the biggest mistake people make in getting franchisees? i think it s they re anxious to grow the brand so they might not have the standards that they need and will evolve to hopefully with time. but i think there s multiple.different criteria and i think it gets better as you have more franchisees. you certainly need to have a certain amount of money. they need to have a certain skill set, whether they re going to be in an operations role or sales role. and then have they led people? so in our organization, once a franchisee gets to a very large scale, he may have direct and indirect employees of 400. someone who hasn t managed wh
before you franchise, was everything buttoned up? i think for us it was very buttoned. it was everyone written down. there s things that as you do the business for a few years you might assume it s known so i think you re kind of fine-tuning write everything down. you re fine-tuning to make sure everything is written down. that s critical. what s the biggest mistake that people make in getting franchisees. they re anxious to grow the brand and might not have the standards that they need. but there s multiple criteria and it gets better with more franchisees. they need to have a certain amount of money, a certain skill set whether they re going to be in an operations role or a sales roll, whatever that is going to look like. and then have they led people. in our organization, once a franchisee gets to a large scale, they may have direct and indirect employees of 400.
operation of the white house. it s a it s an operations role but also an advisory role to the president. you know, the way we ve operated last few months is steve and i have formed a great partnership in advising president-elect trump together, and that s what it really is. i think you ve seen especially over the last few months that donald trump has been very disciplined and also been very comfortable and on message and clear-minded. so you look at these hires. do they bridge the party divide? do they aggravate it? do they do both? i think the greatest way you could see that reflected is to the extent that the establishment republicans, the elected republicans, are ignoring the fact bannon is a part of this administration. last night we started getting press releases reacteding to this selection of reince priebus and steve bannon, steve bannon s name was suspiciously left off a lot of the congratulations on the emphasis it was on reince priebus. i think a lot of republicans