Why FranConnect?
Hear Our Customers Tell Their Stories
Hear Our Customers Tell Their Stories
CAPRIOTTI’S SANDWICH SHOP
GLYNN CHAMBERS
Vice President OF CAPMASTERY
From franchise development, to unit opening, all the way through to field operations, learn how Capriotti’s achieves brand consistency with FranConnect. This fast-growing fast casual brand has been a customer since 2016.
FREDDY’S FROZEN CUSTARD
CHRIS DULL
Chief EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Hear how FranConnect software serves as the system of record to aggregate disparate data from sources across the enterprise at this fast-growing franchise business. Freddy’s is a new FranConnect customer.
HOA BRANDS
LOREN BONTRAGER
SR. DIRECTOR OF SALES & FRANCHISE DEVELOPMENT
The seasoned franchise development executive shares how FranConnect powers their sales and opening. HOA Brands is the parent company of Hoots Wings and Hooters of America and a customer since 2016.
QDOBA
Jim Sullivan
Chief Development Officer
Hear the CDO’s perspective on the importance of a single unified solution to integrate franchise development, FDD’s, Project management, franchisee management and more. FranConnect has powered QDOBA since 2018.
“We have used FranConnect as our franchise support software system provider for nearly 20 years. During this time, Neighborly has grown from six franchise brands to 24, including international expansion. FranConnect has grown with us as we have scaled in size and complexity. We have been very pleased with their performance and support.”
Mike Bidwell
President & CEO | Neighborly Home Service Brand
“FranConnect has become the go to solution for managing the entire lifecycle of a franchisor. At Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa, FranConnect is our single source of truth. We use the platform to manage franchise development, franchise administration and compliance, and franchise operations. It is our primary communications platform for franchisee interactions.”
John Teza
President & CEO | Hand & Stone Franchise Corp
“Over the years, many of our clients have benefited from FranConnect’s industry-leading technology platform. FranConnect is continually re-investing in their systems, ensuring their clients are able to keep pace with the evolution of best-practices in areas of franchise development, franchise support and communications.”
Mark Siebert
CEO | The iFranchise Group
“FranConnect helped us crush our growth goals using the data and infrastructure we already had.”
Mark Mele
Chief Revenue Officer | Paris Baguette
“Our sales cycle has decreased by nearly 50% and we’ve been able to award more franchises by using FranConnect.”
Brent Greenwood
Director of Franchise Development | Firehouse Subs
“We’re able to keep better track of our leads, which helps us engage our prospective franchisees more than we were ever able to in the past.”
Jason Parker
Co-Founder & CEO | K9 Resorts
“We have been using the Sales Acceleator since August of 2020 and it has become an integral part of our development process using the FranConnect system. The team at Lumin have been a pleasure to partner with and have consistently worked at improving the software since we started with them. I would highly recommend them to any franchisor seeking to ensure that all candidates receive an immediate response to their inquiry with a direct opportunity to self-schedule a call.”
Kevin Wilson
CEO | Buzz Franchise Brands
“The lead nurturing and reputation management capabilities make a big difference. FranConnect gives our franchisees the visibility into what consumers are saying about their businesses in one place.”
Matt Quandt
Senior Director of Marketing | BrightStar
“FranConnect has achieved the highest ROI of any platform in use by Floor Coverings International”
Tom Wood
President & CEO | Floor Coverings International
“FranConnect enables us to effectively monitor and improve our system engagement on an ongoing basis.”
John Rotche
Managing Director & CEO | Franworth
“FranConnect understands franchising – not only is it a platform, it helps you establish the best practices necessary in order to succeed and to build your system.”
Brenda Febbo
Chief Marketing Officer | Lightbridge Academy
“Finding a platform that gives us the ability to have all the different functions that we do in the franchising world in one system and to easily analyze and share the data with our franchisees in our system is made possible under one global umbrella system with FranConnect.”
Ivan Olvedo, CFE
IT Directo / Controller | Philly Pretzel Factory
TACO JOHN’S
BROOKS SPEIRS
VICE PRESIDENT OF FRANCHISE DEVELOPMENT
Unit openings are the name of the game in franchising, and that’s why Taco John’s uses FranConnect to automate the end-to-end franchise development process and bring visibility to the entire team. A customer since 2013.
LITTLE CAESARS PIZZA
Craig Sherwood
Vice President of US Development
A critical solution for managing their entire development process from lead to opportunity to new unit launch. With over 5,500 locations, Little Caesars has been a FranConnect customer since 2019.
PAYROLL VAULT
SEAN MANNING
Chief EXECUTIVE Officer
This growing franchise concept has run their business with FranConnect almost since their inception in 2008. They have a strong emphasis on supporting and empowering franchisees by sharing KPI’s and critical training content.
TIJUANA FLATS
Eric Taylor
Vice President of Development
FranConnect helps this full-service restaurant meet their goals for awarding new franchises and opening the units successfully. Eric has used FranConnect at multiple franchise brands and brought the platform into Tijuana Flats in 2019.
PROSOURCE WHOLESALE
BRUCE BURNETT
Vice President OF FRANCHISE DEVELOPMENT
Since 2015, FranConnect has been the franchise development platform for this home improvement supplier. Learn how they can stay in touch with prospective franchisees over months and years to drive growth.
