Weasel words, not epithets for employees with legal claims, are the problem. “…[C]ourts have been nearly uniform in holding that a franchisor should not be deemed to be an ‘employer’ … when plaintiff works for an independently owned franchise.”  McFarland v. Breads Of The World, 2011 WL 801815 (S.D. Ohio 2011) (granting franchisor Panera’s motion for summary judgment in Title VII case) (emphasis added).  With qualifiers like this, what’s a franchisor to do?  Perhaps, like…