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
Basalt: a fine-grained igneous rock that is usually black in color. The specimen shown is about two inches (five centimeters) across. Basalt-Forming Environments: This map shows the location of oceanic divergent boundaries and hotspots. These are locations were large volumes of basalt have been formed.