Terrible, left on your own and Fees drain cash.

Somewhat recognized brand name

There is nothing special at all about Meineke. If you think with this franchise you will be in business FOR yourself buy not BY yourself you are wrong. Meineke offers no special service or "recipe" or anything unique to the market. A Franchise concept is supposed to replicate a proven concept, but Driven Brands leaves you to figure everything out and reinvent the wheel. Driven Brands/Meineke does not care about the success or failure of a Franchisee. Franchisees are left on their own to find equipment, create payscales, negotiate with vendors, develop in-store procedures, and more. You are on your own, yet Driven Brands takes 12% of REVENUE between Royalties, Marketing, and mandatory fees for things like Tekmetric. That amounts to more than 50% of profits!! Only a relative few, maybe top 10%-20% make any kind of money. Everyone else is constantly chasing cash to pay bills. Corporate people don't visits stores, don't have relevant advice, and just remind you to read the Franchise Agreement. You are better off going independent, or maybe a different franchise that has a real model that supports Franchisees.

Completely rethink the VERY old way of doing business. See Franchisees as your partner/customer. More risk sharing Fee structure. Pre-negotiate equipment, parts prices, etc. Develop back office tools to help Franchisees reconcile parts purchases and returns, etc. Present "the Meineke way" of successfully running a Meineke instead of directing franchisees to the few who have figured it out. It is supposed to be a FRANCHISE, which means replicating a proven model (McDonalds, Starbucks, Subway), act like it.