I guess the answer to my question may be somewhere in this large thread - but am hopeful someone can help me with -
I am having trouble figuring out what the popularity of businesses will be when I franchise them. What happens is that I go to another MyTown that I would like to franchise from, and click the stats button. It shows the player's businesses and their popularity. But when I go to that business on their screen and click on the handshake icon to franchise it, the popularity level has often plummeted - it is different than what I saw when I went to franchise it!
Obviously, I would like to franchise high-popularity businesses. Has anyone else had this problem? How can I make certain that when I franchise a business I know what the popularity will be?