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title: "Colorado Business Magazine: How This Colorado Firm Developed Its Approach to Franchising"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/a639ccdc-9b22-48a8-b2e7-c1576a2256fa
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/colorado-business-magazine-how-this-colorado-firm-developed-its-approach-to-franchising-2710765
category: "Franchisors"
industry: "Franchise Industry"
segment: "Franchisors"
topics: ["Emerging brands"]
published: 2019-08-23T13:08:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:32:11.353Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/fa0198fccb93f468596a606b0cebb3754897.jpg
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# Colorado Business Magazine: How This Colorado Firm Developed Its Approach to Franchising

**TL;DR:** Raintree, a Colorado-based firm, has developed an approach to franchising that helps growing brands break into the market with a lower barrier of entry. The company has helped several Colorado-based brands, including Wag N' Wash, Teriyaki Madness, and Cheba Hut, achieve growth.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2019-08-23. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/colorado-business-magazine-how-this-colorado-firm-developed-its-approach-to-franchising-2710765).*

## Story

Colorado Business Magazine—Denver-based Raintree was founded on the idea that growing brands should have a lower barrier of entry to break into the franchising space beyond the traditional broker model. In a recent interview with Colorado Business Magazine, Raintree CEO Brent Dowling detailed how he set out to disrupt franchise growth with Raintree, as well as his tips for scaling effectively using a franchise model.

Since its founding, Raintree has helped a number of brands in its own backyard achieve incredible growth, including Colorado-based Wag ‘N’ Wash, Teriyaki Madness, Rush Bowls, Cheba Hut and Footprints Floors.

“There’s a lot of franchise brands starting out in Colorado and it’s becoming, in my opinion, a little bit of a franchise hub,” Dowling told Colorado Business Magazine. “Folks around the rest of the country really find these Colorado-born brands appealing that's what's allowing our business to thrive.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- franchise growth (topic)
- Franchise Industry (sector)
- brand expansion (topic)
- Footprints Floors (company)
- Teriyaki Madness (company)
- Cheba Hut (company)
- Raintree (company)
- Brent Dowling (person)
- franchising model (topic)
- Wag N’ Wash (company)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/colorado-business-magazine-how-this-colorado-firm-developed-its-approach-to-franchising-2710765). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/a639ccdc-9b22-48a8-b2e7-c1576a2256fa).