03-28-2015, 10:59 AM
(03-28-2015, 10:34 AM)tomh009 Wrote: From a business point of view, the franchisees normally want to have a reasonable territory...Agreed.
My point is that in high density areas a single office building can constitute "a reasonable territory."
1. There could be more people working in a single tower than the entire population that lives in a good sized town out in the 'burbs. If the latter can support a Timmies, then why can't the former?
2. If two nearby office buildings each have a Starbucks it's unlikely that someone who works in one tower would prefer to patronize the Starbucks in the other. Yet if one tower houses a Timmies and the one next door has a Starbucks there's still ample opportunities entice customers from the other building. The former doesn't preclude the latter.