This is an absentee owned business and is currently ran by a full time manager. The owner has a separate day job and has not worked a single shift in this store for over 2.5 years. The store is extremely systematized, profitable and easy to operate.
In addition to above, the store was formerly ranked number 1 for sales for the entire Southwest region. And despite the owner’s absence, it still ranks in the top two spots for all of Arizona.
Even more, although nearly every restaurant in the U.S. has experienced dramatic drops in revenue in the past few years, this store is now experiencing a 17% increase in cash flow from previous year, date for date.
The economy is starting to turn, and the future of this store is looking very bright for a motivated, entrepreneurial minded individual looking for a change of careers...
Even though the store is profitable as is, it will, without a doubt, experience the most growth with a buyer who is willing to occupy it for at least 30-40 hours per week.
In a Q and A session with the owner prior to putting the business on the market, here is what he had to say in regards to this:
"Because of the nature of this type of business and the fact that most of my employees are teenagers or in their early twenties, naturally when there is no adult involved in operations, sales are going to decline. Especially as much as I have been gone...
The fact is, I’ve done little to no promotion in this store for more than two and half years, and because of the increasing demands of my current job, at times I even forget I own it.
When I first took over the store, I used to do a ton of outside store sales that would fall in my lap just by literally standing there... hundreds of dollars a pop. Teachers, pharm reps you name it. But now I rarely get calls... it's just been too long since I've worked the store and my client relationships have fallen off. This is the #1 thing. I'm not talking working the entire day, I'm talking 30-40 hours a week of face time in the store. Just by doing that alone sales will dramatically increase.
The thing that's so great about this store is its location...There is a huge daytime employment base. It's absolutely saturated in daytime/office employment. And these are all our customers. Not to mention, there are the 4 major high schools in the immediate trade area, and countless smaller schools.
I used to make tens of thousands on out of store sales through these channels when I actively ran the store. That's how I grew topline revenues from around $280k in 2005 (annualized) to approx. $440k in 2006. One year of work. It was awesome!
The thing is, when I took a new job offer in January 2008 and basically stopped coming to the store, my sales have slowly declined. I'm telling you, with an owner who is willing to pick up where I left off, and make himself/herself available, the sky is the limit for this store. I'm just not there to take advantage of it anymore."
In a brainstorming session I asked the owner to list some immediate things that could be done to dramatically increase store sales. In a few minutes, here are just some of the things he came up with:
"You could do office smoothie parties. The corporate franchise even has kits for doing this now which was something I never had. I used to do them all the time with my own home-made kit. It was huge. The franchise now trains you how to do this...
You could do school fairs and sporting events, school lunch programs and partnerships with local schools. This is where you basically offer schools a small percentage of sales to offer your smoothies to students during lunch time. Some stores in the chain are seeing massive spikes in revenue from doing this...
Expansion of my flagship salad/wrap program into a full catering division....This one thing alone could double sales. Basically you would offer catering to companies and organizations in the Phoenix area for their corporate parties and events. Catering is a multi-billion dollar industry and we have a product that easily lends itself to this market.
You could sell smoothies at fairs, festivals and races. Arizona is great for this because it's always sunny and warm and there are literally events, somewhere in the city, nearly every weekend most of the year. Our regional director has a mobile smoothie store that can be setup anywhere in the Valley.
You could do business-to-business mailings around the immediate area. I used to do this, and always noticed a spike in sales.
You could do Internet banners, emailing marketing campaigns as well as Social networking campaigns (I have an established Facebook site with 200+ fans that could be easily grown and leveraged.) At this point, I have done nothing with it."
In addition to the above items, the owner has also developed a comprehensive, step by step marketing plan that will go to the new owners. The owner is an MBA graduate and currently holds a position as the head of marketing for a national, well-known pizza franchise. So the marketing plan has been developed by a expert whos daily job is literally increasing franchise location sales.
This is an opportunity to take over a first class operation with hand-held training with one the fastest growing franchise companies in the world. (See "Training" section below)
This is by far the best bargain in Arizona. And the store is not going to last long at this price. If you would like to inquire about this opportunity and receive more information including the stores financial performance and future marketing plan, please fill out the contact form now, and we will be in touch with you shortly. We look forward to speaking with you soon!
Price: $125,000
Inventory: approx. $6,000
Reason For Selling: Owner has a full time job and recently had twin baby girls. He is no longer able to give the store the attention it needs.
Training: As part of the requirement of purchasing this store, the buyer will go through an intensive three level training program through the Robeks Corporation. After the three level training is complete, the new owner(s) will continue to have one-on-one coaching with the regional developer for Arizona as long as they own the store. The business training and coaching is second to none, and new owners will develop business skills that are not easily found anywhere else in the world.
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