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McDonalds Corporation franchises and operates more than 30,000 fast-service restaurants in 119 countries. Buffalo Wild Wings franchises and operates more than 500 restaurants in the United States. Buffalo Wild Wings features chicken wings and a full bar in its restaurants.

Financial information for each company follows. EBI denotes after-tax earnings before interest expense.

Selected Financial Data

Required:

Determine the amounts of sales revenue per company-owned store and franchise fees per franchised store for each year and each company. In these computations, use the average number of stores open during the year.

Question 2. Assume that for both companies sales at company-owned stores are the same (on a per store basis) as sales for the same companys franchised stores. Estimate each companys franchise fee rate, which is state

		Buffalo Wild Wings								McDonald's
		2007	2008	2009	2010	2011			2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
# of stores operating at year-end:
Company-owned		161	197	232	259	319			6,906	6,502	6,262	6,399	6,435
Franchised		332	363	420	473	498			24,471	25,465	26,216	26,338	27,075
Revenues ($ in millions):
Company-owned stores			379.7	488.7	555.2	717.4				16,560.9	15,458.5	16,233.3	18,292.8
Franchise fees			42.7	50.2	58.1	67.1				6,961.5	7,286.2	7,286.2	8,713.2
Total			422.4	538.9	613.3	784.5				23,522.4	22,744.7	22,744.7	27,006.0

d as a percentage of each franchisees sales revenue.