Fast Food Franchise

About this board game

Fast Food Franchise is a 1992 board game for 2–5 players, with an approximately 180-minute play time, about building fast food corporations and controlling markets across the United States.

The board may initially look familiar to players of Monopoly: spaces run around the edges, and some can be controlled. When you land on a space controlled by an opponent, you pay that player money. But rather than focusing on trading property, Fast Food Franchise centers on controlling the abstracted map in the middle of the board.

The outer spaces represent major U.S. cities known as Markets. Players compete to open new markets, launch advertising campaigns, and expand their restaurant corporations. There are no fixed color groups. Instead, the markets you control can be connected through the inner map, making expansion across the country a central strategic challenge.

• Open and control major-city markets.
• Connect markets through the abstracted U.S. map.
• Launch advertising campaigns and build nationwide chains.
• Manage money while competing for control.

Connected markets function like multiple colors in a color group, but the routes between them are shaped by strategic decisions rather than random movement alone. This gives the middle map a more important role than a simple property circuit.

The winner is the first player to make one million dollars, or the only player left if every other player goes bankrupt. With its combination of market control, connections, advertising, and financial pressure, Fast Food Franchise turns the familiar outline of a property game into a contest over nationwide expansion.