{"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\/kr\/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 &#8220;are expected to employ 8.3 million people in the U.S. by the end of this year and generate $802 billion in revenue.&#8221;<\/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 &#8220;anxious 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>.&#8221;<\/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 &#8220;are expected to employ 8.3 million people in the U.S. by the end of this year and generate $802 billion in revenue.&#8221; 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":{"0":"post-236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/kr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}