{"id":236,"date":"2015-02-14T18:29:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T02:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2015-02-23T11:29:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:29:36","slug":"2013-franchise-forecast-going-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/2013-franchise-forecast-going-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Franchise Forecast: Going Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2013 Franchise Forecast: Going Strong\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/200287799-001.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4881\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/200287799-001-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"200287799-001\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>The IFA, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy organization, recently released a\u00a0first quarter update to its economic outlook, which notes that franchise businesses \u00abare expected to employ 8.3 million people in the U.S. by the end of this year and generate $802 billion in revenue.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Quick-service restaurant category, which includes Subway and Dunkin&#8217; Donuts, shows the most sales by dollar volume, with projected revenue of $200 billion. As for\u00a0number of employees and number of establishments, the\u00a0business, commercial and residential service industry (companies such as UPS stores, Fastsigns, Two Men and a Truck and Lawn Doctor) leads the pack, while real estate-related businesses are expected to exhibit the fastest growth.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all this fair weather, however,\u00a0IFA President and CEO Steve Caldeira thinks the forecast would be even better if business owners weren&#8217;t \u00abanxious about the possibility of higher taxes and costs associated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/226174\" target=\"_blank\">implementation of the Affordable Care Act<\/a>.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/\">Sintel Systems<\/a> is a quality provider of tailored Point of Sale systems across retail, restaurant and service industries, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/food-service\/frozen-yogurt\">frozen yogurt shops<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/food-service\/pizza\">pizzerias<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/food-service\/sushi\">sushi restaurants<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/food-service\/coffee-77\">caf\u00e9s<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/retail\">retail stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a single source for business solutions, our experienced, knowledgeable team negotiates the complex POS landscape to enable you to find the right POS system for your business and budget.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/pos-supplies\/hardware\">Hardware<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/pos-supplies\/software\">Software<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/catalog\/category\/view\/id\/118\">Support<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2013 Franchise Forecast: Going Strong\u00a0 The IFA, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy organization, recently released a\u00a0first quarter update to its economic outlook, which notes that franchise businesses \u00abare expected to employ 8.3 million people in the U.S. by the end of this year and generate $802 billion in revenue.\u00bb Quick-service restaurant category, which includes Subway and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}