Less Brand Control: brand control is a business craft and if you have less control over the brand everything starts messing up, mistakes by one location of a brand, its impact can be seen on its every location. Franchisees struggle to keep brand control constant which results in the negative impact on the recognition power. Less control over brand leads to struggling of the franchise. Customers stop flowing through your door and lose trust in the franchise which eventually leads to the disruption of the brand or company. Less control over the brand arises following challenges for the franchise.

• Customers will turn away from the franchise.
• Unprofessional branding.
• Inconsistency. 
• No strict ground rules will arise quality problems. 

Lack of Decision Making Power: in many cases franchise owners lack the power of making decisions this leads to business management problems. With the passage of time franchisor’s change ideas and products for business promotion but certain franchisees fail to adapt with new circumstances. All these changes are made according to trends which eventually leads to more profit generation and revenue but franchisees feel frustrated with such filtrations. Franchisees can’t make decisions in such tricky situations and their business stops to show improvement. This lack of decision making power arise following challenges for a franchise

• End of partnership between franchisors and franchisees. 
• Business failure.
• Less control over business.
• Difference in understanding. 
• Mutual respect problems. 

Infrastructure Problem: Another challenge you will face in franchise business is an unstable infrastructure problem. Many franchisees find it challenging to build a solid infrastructure because all this takes more effort and is time consuming. Some franchisees don’t have much patience in building great structures that are quite hard working and hectic. 

Rules & Regulations

There are different rules in different cities for franchising business. In major cities businesses face a set of rules like in the case of New York, San Francisco, or Chicago. Laws like Fair Workweek laws and many other laws are imposed on franchisees with a number of locations and employees worldwide. 

These laws and regulations need franchise information updates every weekend which leads to more workload and confusion. Because of this, franchise management system changes and as well as employment scheduling changes. Franchisees need to share franchise schedules in advance this creates confusion in operating a franchise business.