In the 1990s, Curves was a big hit with moms, including mine. Every week she’d put on comfy shorts and a big T-shirt and make her way around the fitness studio’s resistance machines, set up in a ...

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Some franchise brands seem to pop up overnight, filling every empty storefront in a city. Curves, the women’s circuit-training gym, went from zero to 10,000 franchise units in seven years. Quiznos ...