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title: "Restaurant Business: Famous Toastery Slows Franchising Efforts"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/8f14e159-f125-4fa5-a073-b156a8bb145e
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/restaurant-business-famous-toastery-slows-franchising-efforts-2717487
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
published: 2021-12-17T12:07:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T01:20:00.891Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/633b0759c730d8fcfb4b8219074b27ba3565.jpg
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# Restaurant Business: Famous Toastery Slows Franchising Efforts

**TL;DR:** Famous Toastery, a breakfast and lunch brand, has slowed its franchising efforts to focus on supporting its existing franchisees. The brand has taken a step back from recruiting new franchisors to make its current ones more successful.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2021-12-17. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/restaurant-business-famous-toastery-slows-franchising-efforts-2717487).*

## Story

Famous Toastery , a 25-plus unit better breakfast and lunch brand, has taken a step back from recruiting new franchisors and is focusing instead on making its current franchisors even more successful.

“Selling franchises is very, very easy. Too easy,” CEO and founder Robert Maynard said in an interview with Restaurant Business . “Getting them to be successful is a whole other business. That’s why we took a step back.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- unit expansion (topic)
- franchisee support (topic)
- Restaurant Business (publication)
- Famous Toastery (company)
- franchising efforts (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/restaurant-business-famous-toastery-slows-franchising-efforts-2717487). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/8f14e159-f125-4fa5-a073-b156a8bb145e).