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Oh man. That's a loaded question. Short answer no, long answer noooooooo.

With years of work you might get close. Finding good people and aligning incentives so you retain them is not easy.

Most franchisees that try and be hands-off from the start crash and burn. Which makes sense, really. If it were a lucrative passive investment, the franchisor would just throw some money at it and keep all the profits.