Receiving recognition from notable industry sources is a feat Auntie Anne's® savors. Being consistently ranked number one in the category of hand-rolled soft pretzels by
Entrepreneur's Franchise 500 demonstrates Auntie Anne's steadfast commitment to maintaining a solid business model that both franchisees and consumers find rewarding. Check out our inclusion in other rankings:
- Franchise Business Review | Best in Food Category, 2009 and 2010 Franchise Satisfaction Awards
- Entrepreneur's Franchise 500 | Ranked #1 in Pretzel category; #48 overall
- Entrepreneur’s Fastest Growing Franchises | #74
- Entrepreneur's America's Top Global Franchises | #42
- Franchise Times | Top 200 Franchise Systems–#159 (only pretzel chain ranked)
- Restaurants & Institutions | Top 400 Restaurant Chains–#111
According to FranSurvey® the highest honor any franchise company can earn is the enthusiastic support by its own franchise community. Auntie Anne's has earned this distinction and has been granted the World-Class Franchise® honor for the past four years. Among the other QSR businesses surveyed, Auntie Anne's was the only one to achieve scores above 90 percent in each key category. Here are a few of the survey result highlights:
- 96 percent of our current franchisees would recommend Auntie Anne's to a potential franchisee (beating the next QSR highest score by 18 percent, and the average by 21 percent).
- 96 percent score on overall quality of Auntie Anne's as a franchisor (Auntie Anne's had the highest score by 7 percent and beat the average of other QSRs by 24 percent).
- 98 percent grade on quality of initial training.
Visit http://www.fransurvey.com/files/57highlights.html to view a summary of the survey results gathered by FranSurvey® - an independent franchise research institute specializing in reporting the cumulative experience of existing franchisees by asking them critical business questions in a confidential manner.