Comments on: Is a Pizza Franchise a Good Investment?

By: yoda

yoda — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:51:45 +0000

Please send follow-up response.

By: yoda

yoda — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:50:44 +0000

Looking for most comprehensive report/review, from an unbiased source, on a Hungry Howie’s franchise.

By: DenverT

DenverT — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:47:49 +0000

I completely agree with the depends statement. If you are the only one in town, GO FOR IT! If you have to compete for the customers from 10 other guys, it’s not worth it.

By: chas

chas — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:42:56 +0000

Hi audrey,

We plan to be the best well marketed in town and most socially connected

I love PHX the weather is GREAT

You have a good looking sysytem yourself

Chas

By: Audrey Personal Trainer in Scottsdale

Audrey Personal Trainer in Scottsdale — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:29:31 +0000

Good luck with your pizza place. For everyone opening one, I only go to places with good food! Make the pizza’s great and people will stand in line or park blocks away!

By: chas

chas — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:06:52 +0000

We are opening a papa johns lot of money up front but a real proven system. some stores gross 1 million most 700k
Costing us about 200k to start. Great product great marketing. I am counting on this for my retirment from healthcare.

By: wayne

wayne — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:09:04 +0000

75 cents? you have to be joking. those $5 pizza’s put about $4 gross profit on the bottom line. their ingredients are the absolute cheapest stuff available.

By: Dave H

Dave H — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:56:37 +0000

Brandon,

I want to start a pizza parlor. I’ve been working part time 20 – 30 hours a week in a local pizza shop in order to learn the business. I have recently found an investor that is willing to back me, but I am having a tough time convincing him on a location that I fell in love with (I personally feel he lacks vision… or I’m just wrong).

I found a place that is 1,000 Sq ($1,500 per month) that is a block from the highways. The highways has 7 exits in a 2 mile span, all exits with tons of businesses so I think it will do great during lunch time. The road that the location is on has 2 lanes in each direction (also loaded with businesses), with an avg of 50k cars passing by each day. The location would be the first food place on that side of the road when people get off of the highway. It has a parking lot that fits 20 cars, has a small deck on the back. The location is one building from the corner, and there is access to a side street from the parking lot where delivery drivers and customers can take the side street to the street light, so it wont be hard for people to get out and go in either direction. And to close, there is a huge residential neighborhood behind the location.

With that said, I am having trouble convincing my investor that the location will do well. There is no parking in the front of the building, so anyone who wants to pickup food will have to take the driveway on the side of the building to the parking lot in the back, and the back of the building with the deck will be the actual entrance. The side of the building facing the road currently looks like (and pretty much is) a khaki sided house. I figured that if I put a sign out front that screams PIZZA! that people will pull in. And for what we lose on the odd design, we would make up in the ability to cover a large delivery radius because of our prime location, as well as the high volume of traffic.

Side question – how much is a typical utility bill for a pizza place that size with the normal double stack oven, fryers, walk in cooler/freezer combo, etc. ?

Your thoughts?

Thanks!
Dave

By: PSP Go

PSP Go — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:56:18 +0000

I think it was good of your friend to make these lifestyle changes and get out in order to live the life he wanted and that suited him better.

By: The Almost Millionaire

The Almost Millionaire — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:18:56 +0000

Bill,
Thanks for the comments and input. I sure hope you are right in that I have good management abilites, because I still own several franchises and am looking for them to thrive!
Best,
TAM