A single franchise unit — one fast-food location, one small retail franchise — often falls short of 10 full-time jobs on its own. Most credible EB-5 franchise plans are built around a multi-unit development agreement, where the investor commits to opening several units within a defined territory and timeline.
Multi-Unit Development as the Job Creation Engine
If your franchise agreement includes development rights for multiple units, your plan should lay out the specific rollout schedule — which units open when, over the 24-month window — and build your job creation table as the sum of staffing across those units, not a single location.
Franchisor-Provided Data, Used Carefully
Franchisors often provide historical per-unit performance and staffing data. This can support your projections, but your plan should apply it specifically to your planned units and territory, and be clear about which figures are franchisor benchmarks versus your own projections for this specific rollout.
Capital Deployment Across Multiple Units
Your capital deployment schedule needs to show franchise fees, build-out, and working capital for each unit in your development schedule, reconciling to your total investment amount and threshold ($800,000 TEA / $1,050,000 non-TEA).
Job Creation Table Reflecting Real Rollout Timing
Staff at Unit 1 will be hired before staff at Unit 3, if your rollout is staggered — your job creation table and 24-month timeline should reflect that realistic staggered hiring, not an artificial simultaneous ramp-up across all units.
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