When Your Franchise Has a Problem, Mike Mershimer Is the Call.

America’s most referred Franchise Authority for royalty assurance, franchise compliance intelligence, underreporting detection, and brand integrity audits. Trusted by established franchise systems and the private equity firms that own them.

For over 30 years, Mike Mershimer has delivered franchise compliance audits, royalty assurance programs, and mystery-shopping intelligence to iconic brands, including Arby’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Papa John’s. Mershimer Group helps franchisors identify unreported sales, enforce brand standards, and recover lost revenue across multi-unit systems of all sizes. We work with a select number of clients because the work demands it.

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Over the past three decades, our founding principal, Mike Mershimer & Partners have helped many of America’s favorite and most iconic brands improve inventory shrinkage, profitability, compliance, and franchise owner wealth through profit protection, field audit, and franchise royalty assurance strategies.

Our Approach

Our Brand Health solutions include Inventory Shrinkage Assessments & Consulting, and Loss Prevention program ideation, design, and management. Additional solutions include brand compliance auditing, franchise royalty assurance programs, and Customer Experience Mystery Shopping. We help leading brands across the globe improve efficiencies, reduce inventory and other loss, outsource non-revenue generating tasks, provide custom field labor solutions, and improve overall profitability, brand health and reputation.

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