Posted by Gerard on November 15, 1997 at 17:14:31:
In Reply to: Looking for a good bread bakery franchise posted by Lynn Forres on November 15, 1997 at 16:13:57:
: We have a restaurant in a small town in Central Texas. We are developing the 2 acres around our Historic downtown location. Market studies have indicated a bread bakery, offering kolaches or some such German-Czeck style items would do well. We have no experience with this. We could finish out the space - about 900 sq' and find an operator, or look at an upscale franchise....any info is most appreciated.
A small bakery will work anywhere providing the rent allows, anything much beyond $50 psf and you're looking at a franchise operation with deeper pockets and less individuality, I've had developers almost beg me to relocate to their latest darling projects but at rents above $75 psf its me not who's dreaming....
In the end the numbers dictate what you get unless you want a sliding scale situation.
Just be aware that some bread franchise operations are failing as are bagel joints, a good bakery run by real bakers isn't a fad.
A franchise run by people on their 4th career ....ya know.
A good way to get real inside info is just call the auction guys, they see the trends from who's failing the fastest, I see quite a few bagel (less than 3 yrs old) machines going for pitance recently at Massachusetts auctions.
Does that cloud the picture better ?
Gerard