The American Association of Franchisee and Dealers (AAFD) has announced that Settle Inn Hotels, LLC and the California Department of Corporations (DOC) are AAFD’s 2007 recipients of the Total Quality Franchising Chairman’s Award for Distinguished Contributions and Service to the Franchising Community.
Settle Inn earned AAFD Accredited Contract status the AAFD’s highest honor for a start-up franchise company. In doing so, the company committed to a franchise culture and franchise agreement that scored a record 99.3% conformity to the AAFD Fair Franchising Standards. Equally important to the AAFD’s strategy to encourage market driven reform of the franchise community, Settle Inn has made its AAFD accredited culture and contract the cornerstone of its franchise development effort.
Terry Kline, Senior Vice President of Franchise Sales and Development of Settle Inns Hotels, explained, “We are truly humbled to receive this recognition from the AAFD! From the very beginning, we set out to make “Fair Franchising” the core element of our business model. Following the leadership of AAFD we were able to structure a franchise agreement for both our “Settle Inn” and “GuestHouse International” brands that gives our franchise owners the entrepreneurial freedom to effectively manage their assets, while allowing us the opportunity to deliver personalized, essential services without the higher costs and inflexibility that is so often common in the lodging industry today.”
AAFD Chairman Bob Purvin, added, “Settle Inn has placed Fair Franchising at the core of its franchise program, and it has embraced the AAFD Standards fully, making itself a public example of how fair franchising is good business! The AAFD will do all it can to help our accredited franchisors, succeed and prosper.
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