VIDEO: Interesting video interview on the Today show with Ann Curry about franchises. It features an interview with a Just Dogs Gourmet franchise owner and the painstaking process of finding money and buying a franchise.
Rieva Lesonsky, the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine, gives the best franchises, the superior franchise success rate, etc. Looks like this was two or more years ago. Entrepreneur's best franchise picks were:
#5 UPS
#4 Jackson Hewitt
#3 Quiznos
#2 Curves
#1 Subway