1, my suggestion is that you can set up your own company, and then use this company to set up a branch, or the user is applying for self-employment, because the main body of franchising must be a company, and subsidiaries, branches or self-employment can all be direct stores, but the business scope must be consistent. How to set up a company, you can first solve the main problems and then franchise for the record.
I hope it will help you and I hope it will be adopted.