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Originally Posted by hershie
However hard it is to make a profit, even if you are profitable, you must appreciate how unforgiving a food business is to run day in day out. The daily routine is draining and void of any satisfaction if you are dealing with anything more complex than simply pouring coffee. It's hell to deal with low paid employees, food safety/cleanliness issues, the public's expectations... My franchises had lineups out the door, around a hundred employees, yet it was still hard to make a buck and worse to stick around and run it. Unless it's some hot night club or similar, there is no joy in running a food franchise.
Can never figure out why people dream of one day opening up a money losing Subway where they will work 75 hours per week because they can't afford employees and watch it fail within 18 months along with all their life savings.
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I hear that. I know someone that for years was a manager of a big grocery store and worked a lot of hours in a thankless job. They dreamed of opening up a small mom and pop type of convience store that they could own. Eventually they saved up some money and with loans bought a country store that also had some gas pumps. It did okay for them, but in the end he and his wife basically worked 70+ hours a week at it because they didn't make enough money to be able to afford to hire many employees and when it was all said and done they worked more hours and made about the same money as they did when they worked at the store. Not for me.