Tell your tales of running a franchise

Reason for thread: I reckon I am not gonna be in my current job for much longer, for uninteresting reasons. So I’m looking for other kinds of job, and I was thinking of opening a franchise*. But I don’t want to discus me. I wanna hear about you. And so does everyone else who’s looking at this thread. They wanna hear what you have to say. Don’t let them down.

Please share your stories about running a franchise. Any kind of franchise whatsoever.
*Note: Not a specific franchise yet - this is fairly sudden and I haven’t really done much research.