As a doorway for many people looking to be their own boss, we know that franchise ownership changes lives. In our annual FRAN-TASTIC BRANDS 2025, we recognize brands going above and beyond the norm and helping people fulfill their dreams of business ownership through franchising! We had a plethora of nominations and we’re delighted to announce the winners below!
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Alesia Visconti, CEO and President of FranServe Inc. says:
“Franchising helps people change their lives, and we see that every day! So many people don’t know that franchising is made up of small business owners — the business model truly celebrates entrepreneurs and business growth. Brands that make the 2025 “FranServe Fran-tastic Brands” list value people taking control of their future through business ownership. We are recognizing these fran-tastic brands for going the extra mile in supporting their franchisees and for adhering to responsible franchising!”
Please note brands are listed in alphabetical order. Brands were nominated and selected based on the following criteria:
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Child Services
Baby Otter Swim School just had its 50th anniversary, saving children’s lives from drowning in the state of Florida. Their mission is to help as many entrepreneurs become franchisees, which inevitably will save more children from drowning.
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Baja Smoothies offers both smoothie fans and potential business owners a lot of value. Their proprietary fruit blend is protected from competitors and is the cornerstone of their business. They offer a mobile, event-based business with high demand and one of the lowest entry costs in the food franchise space. With having a flexible schedule, franchisees can work at their own pace at events, festivals, and high traffic locations.
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Bang Cookies has carved out a unique niche in the dessert market with their emphasis on all-natural, organic ingredients, and an indulgent gourmet experience. Known for their rich, soft-baked cookies made from scratch, Bang Cookies is extending an invitation to like-minded entrepreneurs through its franchising opportunities.
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Bar-B-Clean offers barbecue cleaning, service, parts and repairs, as well as new grill sales. Their mission is to promote a healthy, family-oriented lifestyle to our clients while pioneering and leading the untapped barbecue cleaning industry.
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Backed by Home Franchise Concepts®, Bath Tune-Up offers a scalable, low-cost investment with low-overhead and a high-profit margin business model that can be operated from a home or a retail location. Bath Tune-Up is the expert for any size bath remodel, providing four core services that continue to drive business, including custom and designer-inspired curated collections and an Online Design Tool to take the decision-making stress out of the remodeling equation for clients.
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Since 2015 Battle House® has created massive fun with indoor mission-based laser tag. This is a heart-raising activity that the entire family can participate in. They boast realistic guns, huge gaming arenas, and extended game times (1 to 2 hours) for a unique experience you won't find anywhere else.
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Welcome to Bazooka Charlie’s Barber Co. where you can experience a quality shave and haircut to fortify your place in this world. The man is none other than Lt. Col. Charles “Bazooka Charlie” Carpenter. It is in his honor that Bazooka Charlie's Barber Co. serves your grooming needs today. They're there to care for you, the rest is the stuff of legends like Bazooka Charlie. Step into a new era of barbering at Bazooka Charlie's Barber Co.!
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Welcome to Beauty Bungalows Premium Salon Suites – Your gateway to a semi-absentee business opportunity! They present a robust real estate and property management concept within the thriving and recession-resistant salon suite industry.
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Bee Organized helps people reach their dream of business ownership through a low start-up, low overhead, high profit potential opportunity in an emerging industry. The aging population and American consumerism trend provides an untapped potential and growing demand within the home services space. With a 90-day ramp up, starting a Bee Organized franchise is a rare, home based opportunity. Bee Organized’s training and support provides a turn-key business model with ongoing partnership, marketing support and thought leadership positioning. Bee Organized has created a unique system wide culture of collaboration and synergy with mutual trust and respect, having a lot of fun along the way.
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beem Light Sauna presents more than just a business opportunity; it offers franchisees the chance to become a leader in the burgeoning wellness industry. With its robust brand identity, considerable revenue potential, and a business model focused on recurring income streams, it represents a highly lucrative venture.
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Benjamin Franklin Plumbing provides franchise owners with a clear path to business ownership, even if they don't have industry experience. Franchisees can build a thriving business with comprehensive training, operational support, and exclusive supplier discounts. Their commitment to innovation gives franchise owners new ways to grow, like the Drain & Sewer program, which provides strategic guidance to expand service offerings and open new revenue streams in the essential plumbing industry.
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Best Choice roofing is dedicated to the success of its franchisees. They have implemented a phenomenal support and training system that is yielding franchisees EXCEPTIONAL earnings in the first few months of launch, not to mention long term income.
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Best Choice Window Cleaning is a window washing business serving high-end residential customers, businesses, hospitals, and other government agencies. The business model focuses on a reoccurring revenue model, similar to a subscription based business.
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Best in Class Education Center is a leading supplemental education franchise specializing in after-school tutoring and academic enrichment programs for K-12 students. They focus on personalized learning to help students excel academically while building confidence and lifelong learning skills.
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With an extensive franchise presence across the country, Best Option Restoration (B.O.R.). is a leader in the restoration industry. They hold their technicians to the highest standards in the field. From mold and sewage remediation to fire damage restoration or debris removal, their certified technicians combine courtesy with professionalism to make properties look and feel like home again.
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Big Blue Swim School focuses on creating a safe, welcoming environment for families, where kids can develop swim skills that include stroke, breath, and propulsion, creating confident swimmers and building important life skills like courage, hard work, and perseverance.
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Big Frog Custom T-Shirts offers light manufacturing in a retail boutique setting with custom garment decorating. This low investment has 5 revenue streams with high gross margins.
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With more than 460 franchise shops in 24 states, Big O Tires has been a trusted provider of quality, affordable tires and automotive care for over 60 years. As “The Team You Trust,” Big O Tires invests in training, technology and marketing to support franchisees, and proudly offers a waived initial franchise fee for qualified veterans and first responders.
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Bio-One is the industry leader in bio hazard cleanup. This franchise takes business owners and turns them into community hero's through the work they do in the community. The support from the operations team is unmatched in the industry.
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As a family-run business with a strong support system in place for franchisees, Bloomin' Blinds uses cutting edge technology to make the customer experience fun and easy. What sets Bloomin' Blinds apart isn't just this unique service differentiation and repairs offered, but also the meticulous business model behind it. With no inventory overheads, low initial investment, and a truly mobile setup, franchise owners find themselves positioned for remarkable success.
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Blue Kangaroo Packoutz is a leading brand for contents cleaning and restoration services. They're committed to helping people put their lives back together after fire, smoke, water, or mold damage. Blue Kangaroo Packoutz franchise owners excel in helping homeowners, businesses, and more restore salvageable items to their pre-loss condition. As part of BELFOR Franchise Group, Blue Kangaroo Packoutz is committed to helping entrepreneurs prosper over the long-term through franchise support.
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Blue Moon Estate Sales is a home-based, low-investment industry leader providing stellar support, training and technology to owners. Franchisees help clients downsize belongings to ready a home for fast sale during a time of transition. This nationwide brand creates repeat shoppers through the loyalty rewards program and weekly newsletter, assisting with continuous revenue generation. Franchisees are able to enjoy work-life balance through a scalable business model by managing their own team.
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Founded in 2014, bluefrog™ is led by a passionate executive team with decades of industry specific experience in growing franchise systems and helping entrepreneurs live their dreams of owning a successful business. bluefrog™ is also the sister company of one of the fastest growing restoration companies in the nation, Restoration 1.
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Bodenvy is the Nation's #1* non-invasive body sculpting and weight loss provider. Whether an investor or an operator, their proven track record of training, standard operating procedures, technology, and support will make it easy for franchisees to replicate their success.
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BodyBar Pilates stands out for its proven business model, strong brand recognition, and comprehensive support system. Franchisees benefit from an established brand identity, a turnkey operations system, and ongoing training in both fitness instruction and business management. With a scalable model that includes flexible studio formats, BodyBar Pilates offers an excellent opportunity for entrepreneurs looking to tap into the booming wellness and fitness industry. The brand's commitment to franchisee success, combined with a passionate customer base and an expanding market, makes BodyBar Pilates an attractive option for those looking to build a thriving fitness business.
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Boost Home Healthcare is an exciting premiere home healthcare franchise that provides nurse-inspired clinical excellence. Boost offers short term recovery services for clients who are getting back to health after injury, illness or hospital stay and who need clinical, skilled nursing care for 60-90 days. This specialized niche in home healthcare is in high demand, offering owners the perfect way to elevate their career, prosperity and personal growth within the Best Life Brands family of companies.
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BooXkeeping redefines the $4.2 Billion bookkeeping industry by providing cutting-edge accounting services, ongoing training, all marketing support, operational help, and even bookkeeping staff to do the work (optional)!
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Bricks 4 Kidz is an award-winning franchise and largest provider of STEAM-based educational enrichment programs in the world. They offer innovative products and a curriculum that is STEM certified and mapped to the common core and NGSS standards.
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Bright Brothers is more than just a business opportunity; it's an extraordinary endeavor for those aspiring to forge their own path with a supportive network by their side. At its core, Bright Brothers is an exterior cleaning and holiday lights franchise that places emphasis on personalized training, offering hands on, in-the-field experiences.
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BrightStar is a healthcare staffing service helping families and businesses live and perform their best while keeping them out of nursing homes and in their own homes through a full range of medical and non-medical services. The market for their services continues to grow rapidly and they show franchisees how to start acquiring clients and staff before opening doors!
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British Swim School is the premier survival and stroke development swim lesson provider, utilizing highly-trained swim instructors to teach lessons that focus on safety, fun and skill development, across all ability levels. In addition to their purpose-driven mission, their model of utilizing existing facilities means this is a low investment, no build-out business that allows owners to scale quickly.
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As the #1 custom window coverings franchise in North America, Budget Blinds takes a personal approach to the home services industry with a focus on building vibrant communities and serving as the local window covering expert across 1,400 territories. As a Home Franchise Concepts® brand, Budget Blinds promotes a safe and stylish lifestyle for people and families, offering a wide assortment of cordless and smart home automated window coverings to make any residence a child-safe and stylish home
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Building Kidz School provides full service campuses that enable children to continually develop character, confidence, and commitment. Their mission is to create a local community where children are challenged intellectually as well as become empowered and interested in lifelong learning.
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The Buildingstars master franchise is an executive-level opportunity where the owner uses their sales and business experience coupled with a proven operating system to build a multi-million dollar business with recurring revenue in one of the largest growing service industries in the world. At the same time, franchisees will be helping small business owners achieve success.
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Busy Bee Jumpers has been the leading company for Massachusetts and Rhode Island party rentals for over 25 years, providing affordable and party-safe rentals with personalized service and free cancellations. Their high-quality party rentals include inflatable jumpy houses, inflatable obstacle courses, inflatable waterslides, event tents, tables, chairs, and more. Always competitively priced, Busy Bee Jumpers has a professional team that delivers your inflatable rentals right to your event location in MA and RI. Busy Bee Jumpers is proud to maintain a 5-star rating with focus on safety, service, and providing free cancellations.
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BYou Laser Clinic's business model combines high-demand services with a comprehensive support system, including extensive training, marketing resources, and ongoing operational guidance. Franchisees benefit from BYou's established brand, advanced FDA-approved technologies, and a client-centric approach that drives repeat business and customer loyalty. This model provides a solid foundation for franchisees to build a profitable, growth-oriented business in a thriving market.
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