This will not end well.  

A precedent is Sobeys acquisition of IGA.  Sobeys systematically pillaged the franchisees until there was not one left standing, all in the name of making a few quarters' profit targets.  The old IGA stores were never the same, and Sobeys still has not a clue how to run a grocery store.

If I were an RBI shareholder or franchisee I would get out now.