Look, I've complained about names for things before. But there's seriously a stochastic process used in real academic literature called the "Chinese restaurant franchise" (https://metacademy.org/graphs/concepts/chinese_restaurant_franchise …). This is beyond satire.
(It's a generalization, of course, of the Chinese Restaurant Process. https://metacademy.org/graphs/concepts/chinese_restaurant_franchise#focus=chinese_restaurant_process&mode=learn …)
cognitive psychology. PhD