Easy Street Diner, a small restaurant business and general partnership

with 7 partners is a very profitable, successful business located in Baltimore. The diner has 3 restaurants in the Baltimore area. Easy Street Diner wants to expand its business and is considering doing so by franchising within the U.S.

-Analyze and discuss whether you would advise Easy Street Diner to franchise the business and why.
-After evaluating the positive and negatives, should Easy Street Diner franchise or expand the business in some other way?

Discussion question. A paragraph thoroughly answering the question will suffice.  APA references

Course Reading
http://franchiselawyer.com/overview-of-franchising
http://apps.americanbar.org/buslaw/blt/2010-03-04/grueneberg-solish.shtml
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/franchise