Let’s talk Franchise questions

I’d want to understand why they went the franchise route in the first place. If the business is so incredibly successful, why franchise it? There could be legitimate reasons for doing so, capital constraints being one of them. I’d just want to understand that, though. For many of these operations, franchising becomes “the” business, and they reckon franchising to unsuspecting franchisees is more attractive than the underlying business itself. I’d stay away from those situations.