Have you considered a new career, perhaps a franchise? The restaurant business is not the easiest business in the world, but if it's done correctly it can be a very consistent business. Of course any business including a franchise is a risk and there is no guarantee of success or profits. When you work in corporate America you get a paycheck and you know how much it will be, but in a franchise there is a chance you could even lose your investment or not make a profit for three years? That is a little scary to contemplate.
If you open your own franchise there is no guarantee of success either and well most restaurant proformas and limited partnership investments are troubling, I mean you have clauses which state total re-modeling in every ten years and all the costs of everyone, salaries, etc. Then the remodel costs 1-5 million? Oh well there goes your ROI.
With a restaurant franchise there are many stipulations and requirements in the franchise offering circular and you need to be aware of all these. Let's take a Taco Bell for instance; you must build 10 stores in 10-years, sign the then current franchise agreement, then all of sudden it might say to remodel all 10-stores at once? Ouch. Do you see my point? Please consider all this in 2006.
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