While an affiliate program and fruit bouquet franchise share the same objectives: to sell as many edible gift baskets as possible, the job responsibilities, profits and earnings are  unique. As far as business start-ups in the fruit bouquet marketplace, affiliate programs afford significantly much more flexibility than the edible fruit franchise model. A comparison of Edible Arrangement’s franchise opportunity to that of 1-800Flower’s Fruit Bouquets.com illustrates two diametrically distinctive business models.