Our story is rooted in the Kansas City
area where City Wide has enjoyed tremendous success since
1959. We continue to experience great success and have grown
to a strong national presence with Franchise Owners in multiple
markets coast to coast. . Throughout our growth, it has been
our core values, which remain at the heart of our successes.
Our story began in 1959 when Frank Oddo founded the company.
Frank, a recent graduate of the University of Missouri, couldn't
find work so he started his own professional commercial cleaning
company in Kansas City.
City Wide grew and prospered and by 1996, it was apparent
that franchising the company business model was the ideal
way to share our opportunity with others nationwide. Jeff
Oddo, now President of City Wide, shifted the company from
being a local operational company to a national sales
and management company.
In 2001, City Wide began to offer franchises in other
US cities, and is now represented from California to Boston, Texas to Ohio.
Each market has a local owner(s)
who has purchased exclusive rights to the City Wide name,
has duplicated our business model, and has implemented the
proven procedures that have produced success for nearly
half a century.
Today, City Wide is one of
the country’s’ most professional B-2-B facility service
companies, providing building maintenance services to hundreds
of buildings throughout the United States. Each night our
Independent Contractors clean millions
of square feet of
commercial space.
"Our approach to ‘selling’ a
franchise is not to ‘sell’ it at all. Rather, our goal is
to find truly talented people who share our vision and want
to work together to achieve mutual success."
— Jeff Oddo, Company President
City Wide Franchise Company