{"id":254531,"date":"2026-05-24T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/artificial-intelligence-makes-opening-a-franchise-look-like-better-job-security-than-youd-think\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T01:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:25:13","slug":"artificial-intelligence-makes-opening-a-franchise-look-like-better-job-security-than-youd-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/artificial-intelligence-makes-opening-a-franchise-look-like-better-job-security-than-youd-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence makes opening a franchise look like better job security than you\u2019d think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/in-the-age-of-ai-this-old-idea-is-cool-and-lucrative-again-20260525-p60095\">Artificial intelligence makes opening a franchise look like better job security than you\u2019d think<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/in-the-age-of-ai-this-old-idea-is-cool-and-lucrative-again-20260525-p60095\">https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/in-the-age-of-ai-this-old-idea-is-cool-and-lucrative-again-20260525-p60095<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-24 22:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.afr.com\">www.afr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"b9ffd69edcbd1f32-byline\"><span class=\"b9ffd69edcbd1f32-author\" data-testid=\"AuthorNames\"><strong>The Economist<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>May 25, 2026 \u2013 12.00pm<\/p>\n<p>When Greg Flynn graduated from Stanford Business School in 1994, with the dotcom boom in full swing, his friends chose the obvious career path. But while they \u201cwere all making PowerPoint presentations \u2026becoming paper millionaires,\u201d he went off to help a friend open a second restaurant. A few years later, spotting generous financing on offer for would-be franchisees, Flynn bought eight Applebee\u2019s restaurants of his own.<\/p>\n<p>He now runs more than 3000 franchise outlets across seven brands in three countries, and is reportedly worth more than $US1 billion ($1.4 billion) \u2013 probably the first franchisee in the world to reach that milestone. On February 22, the International Franchise Association, a lobbying group, inducted him into its Hall of Fame \u2013 an accolade previously reserved for franchisors, the innovators on the other side of the business who established big chains, such as Ray Kroc of McDonald\u2019s or Colonel Harland Sanders of KFC.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/in-the-age-of-ai-this-old-idea-is-cool-and-lucrative-again-20260525-p60095\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence makes opening a franchise look like better job security than you\u2019d think https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/in-the-age-of-ai-this-old-idea-is-cool-and-lucrative-again-20260525-p60095&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.2445%2C$multiply_3%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_40\/t_crop_custom\/c_scale%2Cw_800%2Cq_88%2Cf_jpg\/t_afr_no_label_no_age_social_wm\/445a543ea6408f644ec8c5455171f5eba5c9bf75","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-254531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254533,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254531\/revisions\/254533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}