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Importance of the Subway Franchise Agreement

So, you’re considering opening a Subway franchise location, and it’s come down to designing a Subway franchise agreement to seal the deal. Congratulations, you’re about to open a store in one of the fastest-growing alternative fast food chains in the United States.

A franchise agreement is the most significant step in the process of setting your store up, and the reasons for this step’s significance aren’t all obvious.

You probably already know that Subway has a high threshold for quality of products and service, but did you realize how many ways your attention to quality can be seen? You can start demonstrating your attention to detail and your devotion to hard work and quality well before you open your store.

When designing your Subway franchise agreement, there are many facets that you can give extra attention to, to show how much you care.

Points of Quality for your Subway Franchise Agreement

It’s probably obvious to you the importance of how well-worded and tightly-designed the actual writing in your franchise agreement form is, but it still doesn’t hurt to give it some mentioning. It’s important to make sure that nothing is left to be interpreted (or misunderstood), for the benefit of yourself and Subway. A clearly-stated mission and objectives, within the bounds of Subway’s services is very important to give much thought to as well.

But, your Subway franchise agreement has other points which deserve equal thought. The overall appearance of your contract does in fact matter! Your contract’s visual aspects can be looked at in two basic categories.

First, consider your type face, spacing and columns, because ease of reading depends on those. Having too much print per page can be overwhelming to readers, and cause them to habitually skip over lines of text or entire sentences that could contain important aspects.

Also, your printed material, and the coloring of it does matter. It’s best to choose a material that’s sturdy, and feels “expensive”, even if it actually isn’t. This is a formal document, and a statement of your devotion to Subway quality. It should show this devotion.

Lastly, when storing the digital copy of the franchise agreement, be sure to choose a format that can’t be tampered with, and has an extensive capacity as far as style and formatting. PDF is popular in this category, given how many platforms can easily read it, and how difficult it is to tamper with one that has security features enabled.

Show Subway your devotion to total quality right away, by paying attention to all quality points of documents you send them. This will go a long way.