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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Here's a crazy thought. If the NHL franchises are, well, franchises - then why doesn't the NHL provide the facilities for those franchises to operate in?
If I want to own a McDonald's, I don't just pay a franchising fee and then I'm sent off on my own to find some land somewhere and build my own restaurant and source all my own ingredients and design my own menus, etc.
The NHL should be the ones that manage the facilities in each city, negotiate the construction and land deals etc. The franchisee should just be paying rent on the NHL facilities they're using and that's the end of their involvement.
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That is not how fast food franchises work.
Not at all.