Franchise. There are benefits to a corporate owned chain and a franchised chain. restaurant image by Dmitry Nikolaev from Fotolia.com. As a business grows there are many strategic decisions that must be addressed.
Town of Basalt The Town of Basalt is a Statutory Town in Eagle and Pitkin counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. The town population was 3,857 at the 2010 United States Census
Rockhound. Basalt is an igneous rock that forms from the relatively rapid solidification of basaltic lavas; that is, those magmas that are relatively high in iron and magnesium, and low in silica and aluminum.These features give basalt its dark color and higher relative density when compared to silicate igneous rocks.asalt is defined as an igneous rock that contains less than 20% quartz and less than 10% feldspathoid and where at least 65% of the feldspar is in the form of plagioclase. On Earth, most basalt magmas have formed by decompression melting of the mantle.