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Originally posted by FlyingIguana
from porn to flipping burgers. interesting
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I managed for Taco Bell during the days they started buying up their old franchises and thought they'd make better money using mostly corporate stores right through to the period they decided they'd start franchising them all out again.
When they did this 2 brothers from East Texas who started off owning a couple of Taco Bells ended up buying the majority of them in the D/FW and outlying areas...they now own well over 150 Taco Bells in Texas and Louisiana....anyway to get to my point.
The younger brother one day when opening up a new store here in Fort Worth just sighed real heavy and looked at me and said...."If there's a harder way to earn a dime in this world I don't know what it is."
I'll have to say I agree with that 110%.
If you think you are interested at all in owning a fast food resteraunt I suggest you go work in one for couple of months as a min. wager...and you will soon realize this is not what you want to do.
#1 McDonald requires you to actually work in a store before purchasing...you have to know the ins and outs of the biz from sweeping the lots...to making fries...to working the drive-thru all alone.
#2 Your employee pool is limited to kids...mental defects...drug addicts/alcoholics...and this is your management team.
No shit...you will be entering the biz with the highest employee turnover rate.
Just because you are the owner doesn't mean you sit back in your ivory tower and watch them make burgers below while the money just rolls in.
You will have to put in your time and hopefully build up a management team you can trust....but in the mean time you will be dealing with no call no shows...what does that mean?
On a Friday night after the football game and everybody in the neighborhood hits your store a couple of 16 year olds decide they'd rather go to a party...but guess what? They don't call you...and they don't show up.
I had an entire crew of Mexican kids do this to me on a Friday night so they could go to a quinceneara (sp?...It's a mexican celebration of a 15 year old girls birthday).
You will have to deal with teaching people day in and day out that you cannot wipe your nose and then stick your hand in a basket of french fries without washing first.
You will be dealing with theft...money...food...property.
You will be dealing with a public who would politely ask you for your insurance card if you rammed their $50K mercedes but is willing to jump over a counter and throttle you for not putting enough cheese on his 69 cent taco.
You will be dealing with bogus complaints of food poisoning and slip and fall claims...the list goes on.
I suggest you stick with porn...it's a lot easier sitting in a dark little office where your only boss is you
