Wizzle_Wassell
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A business bought on a shoe string will IMO always be a shoe string business. If you haven’t got money behind you you will at some point more than likely fail. As ‘TheMax’ clearly illustrates there are a dearth of shops available to move in right away - why??? well because most have been bought on the same principle.
This is NOT a cheap business to get into. ALL of the most successful businesses in this market spend money every month on marketing and all the other know essentials but of course you can bet that the oven will break down, refrigeration fails, insurances are due, sign-age breaks down, a door handle, a till, a POS screen, the list is endless and we’ve all been there.
I’m not saying it can’t be done but the remains of the many many people who tried to make it work and failed are around all of us. As bodegahwy states even 10 years picking up an old (1 year old) shop @35k cost another 75k to run before he came to profit.
TheMax says ‘From doing massive door hanging, flyers gorilla marketing you can get a shop making 400-500 a day from the first week if not more’ of course this does cost money and for a new business you HAVE to make multiple impressions on most customer before they will even think of trying you and you NEED to carry on repeating this marketing to retain and increase the customer base. Getting 400-500 days to fund another ‘massive door hanging’ or similar is very hard and when your in the shop you have to pay someone to do it for you (again at a cost).
I know I’ll never get a job as a motivational speaker but the stark realities of this business are a far cry from the dreams of people with not much money behind them. To the original poster 40k is a lot of money but I’d question if it is anywhere near enough to have a solid pizza business! If I had just that kind of money I certainly think I’d look at other businesses first.
Good luck
This is NOT a cheap business to get into. ALL of the most successful businesses in this market spend money every month on marketing and all the other know essentials but of course you can bet that the oven will break down, refrigeration fails, insurances are due, sign-age breaks down, a door handle, a till, a POS screen, the list is endless and we’ve all been there.
I’m not saying it can’t be done but the remains of the many many people who tried to make it work and failed are around all of us. As bodegahwy states even 10 years picking up an old (1 year old) shop @35k cost another 75k to run before he came to profit.
TheMax says ‘From doing massive door hanging, flyers gorilla marketing you can get a shop making 400-500 a day from the first week if not more’ of course this does cost money and for a new business you HAVE to make multiple impressions on most customer before they will even think of trying you and you NEED to carry on repeating this marketing to retain and increase the customer base. Getting 400-500 days to fund another ‘massive door hanging’ or similar is very hard and when your in the shop you have to pay someone to do it for you (again at a cost).
I know I’ll never get a job as a motivational speaker but the stark realities of this business are a far cry from the dreams of people with not much money behind them. To the original poster 40k is a lot of money but I’d question if it is anywhere near enough to have a solid pizza business! If I had just that kind of money I certainly think I’d look at other businesses first.
Good luck
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