Entrepreneurial Millennials: Why the Franchise Environment Is So Enticing to Them

Allie and Matt CanadayAs a student at Missouri Western State University’s Craig School of Business, Allie Canaday won an entrepreneurship competition that awarded her a franchise in Omaha. She entered the contest because she desired the challenge that comes with owning your own business.

“I liked knowing that I would be able to control my success through a venture that would be my own,” she told Modern Restaurant Management magazine. “It definitely changed the course of my career path. I was in my senior year of college and had little interest in the job opportunities I had seen advertised throughout the school. Nothing else had caught my interest like the opportunity of the entrepreneurship class. However, had it not been for that opportunity I would not have been able to pursue the franchise environment simply because the lack of funding.

After selling the business a year later, she moved back to her hometown in Utah and opened an Auntie Anne’s franchise at the Outlets at…