Franchisors and franchisees, want a heavy-duty philosophical thought? In the video clip below, Samuel Jackson is a hit man who has just been burglarized in a restaurant. Wrong guy to try to burglarize. He easily outmaneuvers the neophyte.

Think of the scene metaphorically. With a franchise agreement's acknowledgment, integration and other clauses loaded in favor of the franchisor, and with the ease that the weak are tyrannized by the strong, can your franchisor have the will power to resist? Still don't know what I'm talking about? Click the conclusion to the movie Pulp Fiction to see. (Rated R: video has strong swearing mixed with Bible verses.)