3. Subway
2014 position: 3
Startup costs: $117K – 263K
With more than 44,000 stores around the globe (27,000 of them in the United States) you’d think that Subway franchises have reached its peak. But according to the company, there are some 8,000 locations that they want to add to their list, and that’s just in the US. Currently, they are focusing on hospitals, as one of the last large markets untapped by iconic foot long sandwiches.
