Show your enthusiasm for the best franchises in the industry with the Franchise Times Zor Awards, recognizing the best companies in 10 hot industry segments.
This interactive awards program allows our readers to vote for their favorite brands in each of 10 categories, and our editorial team will make the final selections based on in-house research, our exclusive return-on-investment metrics and online voting that represents fan enthusiasm and industry momentum.
This year’s categories are: Early Risers (breakfast franchises), Full-Court Press (sports bar franchises), Settle in for a Slice (sit-down pizza franchises), Lookin’ Good (beauty franchises), Breaking Bread (sandwich franchises), Sweat It Out (gym franchises), Dirty Jobs (disaster restoration franchises), Clean Sweep (home cleaning franchises), Quick Flip (QSR burger franchises) and Smarty Pants (early learning franchises).
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Online voting begins Monday, December 9, and runs through Friday, December 13. The winners and runners-up will be announced in the March 2025 issue of Franchise Times.
Check out the lineup below to see which brands are in the running for the title of best franchise to buy and then cast your votes in each category.
Contenders are drawn from the Franchise Times Top 400 database, a 20-year-old research tool covering more than 600 U.S.-based franchise systems. We further narrowed the list by analyzing the quality of information in each brand’s Item 19 (which contains information about profitability for franchisees) or other key financial data, and also focusing on brands that are currently expanding in the United States. The online voting results are used to gauge industry enthusiasm for the brands.
Let the voting begin!