Re:It costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise
by asdff on Sunday January 19, 2020 @09:25PM
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Chick fil a at least can be run pretty passively. I got to know an owner at a local franchise. He owned other franchises and gas stations, had a massive house in a gated community, and had time to lecture at a very good business school in town.
He had managers on every shift running day to day so he never really needed to visit the store, but he did a couple times a week anyway to show face with the staff and even step onto the line and bag orders if it got swamped while he was there, simply to lighten the load on the staff.
If this had been an independent restaurant, he might have been doing things like cooking in the back 12 hours a day to lower his payroll. Predatory is not the word I would use for most franchises these days; passive income is the word I would use.
He had managers on every shift running day to day so he never really needed to visit the store, but he did a couple times a week anyway to show face with the staff and even step onto the line and bag orders if it got swamped while he was there, simply to lighten the load on the staff.
If this had been an independent restaurant, he might have been doing things like cooking in the back 12 hours a day to lower his payroll. Predatory is not the word I would use for most franchises these days; passive income is the word I would use.