Hub & spoke, explained: how 5àsec builds a city

5àsec does not scatter identical shops across a city. It builds a network. Every launch city opens with a Master Hub — the full production plant, with the machinery and expertise to handle everything from everyday laundry to leather restoration.

Around that hub, smaller formats follow: Mini-Hubs that anchor their own sub-catchments, neighbourhood Unit stores close to where people live, and pickup points that feed work back to the hub. The customer gets a shopfront on their doorstep; the heavy processing happens once, at scale, at the hub.

For a franchise investor this means a territory can be entered at any level and grown over time — and it is why the smaller Unit formats perform best where a hub already operates nearby to support them.