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
Updated April 03, 2017. Basalt is the dark, heavy volcanic rock that makes up most of the world's oceanic crust. Some of it erupts on land, too, but to a first approximation basalt is an oceanic rock. Compared to the familiar granite of the continents, basalt (ba-SALT) is darker, denser and finer grained.