Fast Food Franchise is a game of market control. Look up Market in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Gameplay

Initially, the game looks like Monopoly. There is a board, with spaces around the edges. Some of these spaces can be controlled. Each time you land on a space controlled by an opponent, you pay them money. In economics, a monopoly (from the Latin word monopolium - Greek language monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a product or service. ...

The inside of the board is an abstracted map of the USA. There are no fixed "color groups;" rather, your controlled outer spaces ("Markets") are the major cities of the USA, and you need to use the inner map to connect these markets. For other uses, see Metropolis (disambiguation). ...

Connected markets act like multiple colors in a color group. However, the expansion in the middle map is far more strategic than random. A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, as differentiated from tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand. ...

Where Monopoly is a game about trading property, Fast Food Franchise is a game of controlling the inner map. Look up Trade in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Trade centers on the exchange of goods and/or services. ... Property designates those things that are commonly recognized as being the possessions of a person or group. ...