Franchise Success Formulas

In this episode of the Franchise Success Formulas Podcast, Aicha Bascaro, CEO & Founder of the American Franchise Academy, shares the story of her final international assignment: from training workshops in Medellín, Colombia, to six months running operations in Rio de Janeiro, where she experienced total language immersion and aggressive multi-unit growth, and learned the lesson every franchise leader needs about why a business can't run without a District Manager.

Nicaragua was supposed to be the scariest country on the list. It became one of the best experiences of an entire career in franchising.

In this episode of the Franchise Success Formulas Podcast, Aicha shares a true story from the road: a franchisee with zero financial statements, an office with way more overhead than three stores could support, and the real lessons every franchise leader needs about fear, financials, and scaling the right way.

In this episode, Aicha Bascaro shares the wild story of opening Domino's Pizza's first store in the Dominican Republic, training dozens of scooter delivery drivers, running the dough production overnight, and dealing with a container of cheese that arrived refrigerated instead of frozen just weeks before the grand opening.

In this episode of the Franchise Success Formulas Podcast, Aicha Bascaro shares the story of how she became a "nomad" for Domino's Pizza International in 1992, traveling the world as a training specialist to help master franchisees launch and stabilize new markets.

The episode covers her first assignment: helping open the very first Domino's Pizza in Spain during the 1992 Seville World Expo, where she led a brand-new team through a high-volume, high-pressure launch. From there, the story moves to her next assignment in a remote, snowed-in Michigan/Canada border town, where the challenge shifted from explosive growth to simply breaking even through a slow winter season.

Follow our CEO & Founder through three very different stores she ran during her Unit Manager phase: a low-volume location, a store with a serious retention problem, and one of Dallas's highest-volume stores.