/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Chick-fil-A charges a 15% royalty and takes 50% of all profits for franchisees, by far the steepest structure of any quick-service brand.

>>20024414
If corporate even decides if you are holy enough to be inducted into the chicken family. Dunkin Donuts will hand out franchises to any fresh off the boat indian family with enough cash and illegal labor to get it up and running.

>>20024421
That is steep, but I would guess even with that and being closed on Sunday, they still double or triple the average fast food place in sales. The one pictured opened by me a few months ago..I figured the hype would die down but it still hasn't. It's constantly packed.

>>20024414
JUST BE OPEN ON SUNDAY YOU CHICKEN FUCKS

>>20024498
If you want god fearing chicken on a Sunday cook-out has you covered.

>>20024423
You can get a Dollar General franchise for pennies

>>20024433
>triple in sales
sales don't matter, margins do. Check this out:
> Franchise Business Review’s latest research on food franchises found that the typical franchisee in the food and beverage segment will take home an average annual income of $120,000 – and our top-rated food franchises average 15 to 20 percent higher than that. While Chick-fil-A doesn’t publish any operator earnings numbers, Franchise Business Review estimates that the average restaurant operator earns a very respectable income in the range of $150,000.

owning fast food just isn't worth it.

>>20024513
I’m sure it’s worth it if you own multiple franchises

>Bro do you hate TRANNIES??? Ya gotta try this cheap fried chicken that is exactly the same as every other fried chicken joint only they hate the gays right on the bottom of the cola drank cup! You can be a bitch made social justice pussy just by buying tendies, it's right next to actually doing anything. %10 off if you have proof of over 80 hours played at wizard game

>>20024515
bruh, if you have the money to buy multiple franchises, you have enough money to do any number of businesses where it's a ton less work, less hassle and much easier to break into higher returns.

>>20024516
Lol what a buttblasted fag you are

>>20024521
I think these numbers would likely be net income. In the case of most franchise owners, 100% of the work from actually flipping burgers to ordering and staffing is done by someone else, and their pay is taken into account here. Unless they use some other formula for calculating income for this article, it's basically money printing.

>>20024515
>No Chick-fil-A multi-unit franchises
>While this can be the case with some franchises, most will offer the option to own several locations. Chick-fil-A does not, and only allows for a single unit per franchisee. This can mean less profits, as you are limited to only one location.

>>20024513
>>20024521
If they hire a competent manager, then the owner just sits back and collects the money after the first year or two. If they already have experience with this, then they can hire a good worker from one of their other franchises and work for like 3 months setting it up.

>>20024414
What's so special about it? I've tried it twice and it's pretty mediocre.

>>20024525
>The company wants their franchisees to be completely hands-on, and devoted solely to their Chick-fil-A franchise. In other words, if you are a serial entrepreneur: this is not the right franchise for you. They do not give a clear reason for this, but one could conclude that the company is not interested in creating conglomerates, and values quality over quantity.

Yes, it's printing money, but not for you.

>Chick-fil-A has one of the lowest investment requirements in the QSR sector, but that is because, as one of their operators, you don’t actually own the business. In most cases, the land, the building, and the equipment are owned by Chick-fil-A corporate, which they lease to their operators. It’s really more like renting vs. owning a home. At the end of your franchise agreement with Chick-fil-A, you don’t own anything – which for many entrepreneurs, is a deal-breaker.

You're basically just the ubergeneral manager of a location who also had to project manage and fund a huge hunk of its construction.

Also, net is literally the important thing here. You gonna spend $10,000,000 to make $5?

>>20024533
I don't think the food is that much greater than other places, but the one by me is staffed by all white people, so it makes me feel better about it

>>20024414
You must live somewhere with blacks. We just got a popeyes, they built a brand new building for it. I haven't seen a single car in line, or even more than 2-3 cars in the parking lot so I assume nobody cares.

>>20024541
My town is 97% white

>>20024531
It's still a bad investment.

You can do the same thing with a gas station and get into a segment that has typical 30% profit margins.

>>20024536
this makes me laugh for some reason.

>interviewer: "how do you feel about gay marriage?"
>le chicken sandwich man: "i think marriage should be between a man and a woman."
>interviewer: "ok, so on to my next question..."

Not only did this simple, harmless phrase btfo the homo agenda so hard that they're still seething ten years later, but it also took CFA from mostly regional to the no.1 chain in America practically overnight. Remarkable and udderly tragic for the likes of this one >>20024516

>>20024516
reminder the chic fil a ceo shined a black guy's shoes on live television

the christgolem's cuckery knows no bounds

>>20024542
sounds like heaven

>>20024414
Chick-fil-A has helped me to understand that we do not design transportation infrastructure that makes any sense.

>>20024621
It's not because the overwhelming majority of crime is intraracial

>>20024542
Used to live in a town like that. The Chick-fil-a caused all kinds of traffic problems but the Popeye's down the street rarely had more than a couple of cars there. The town was 0.7% black. Guess that was enough for the one Popeye's to stay in business.

>>20024631
Once upon a time, Chick-fil-A only had locations inside of malls. It was a great novelty when the first freestanding locations popped up.

>Used to work at CFA
>Got pretty chummy with the owner
>Got his start in hotels, then owned multiple waffle house locations
>First CFA location is a major success, his was probably the third one in the state to exist at the time
>Goes to corporate and pretty much tells them that not having a second location is actually hurting profits because people weren't used to the crazy lines yet and were avoiding CFA for that
>Corporate allows for second location
>Rest is history

Pretty cool dude, fought tooth and nail with corporate to ensure no one was ever outside taking orders on a tablet, as well.

>>20024516
The whole idea of pretending something isn't good purely due to political leanings of any variety is the most ridiculous, pathetic notion, be it from either side of the aisle. If you don't like Chick-fil-a it's okay, you just have strange preferences, or maybe it doesn't agree with you even if it tastes good. But with people like you it's just so immediately obvious that you're a pouting child sitting in the corner of a room full of people enjoying something good, eating a less good sandwich through a frown and telling yourself how much fun you're having.
It's patently childish - which is clearly par for the course when it comes to politics these days.

>>20024724
Uninformed election tourist take, we don't hate the chicken place because they are innocent cwistiwns U.U or even just for being cuckservatives the ceos have actively given money towards shit like gay conversion therapy camps which are proven to not work and are basically suicide mills. So go fuck yourself.

Are these sandwiches actually good?

>>20024741
>Uninformed election tourist take
Best compliment I've received all year, thanks anon. If I E V E R can be counted amongst the politically minded in this day and age, please set me on fucking fire.

>>20024778
it's a white women fad. if they repurposed all the dead malls into these restaurants on one side and an apple store with OnlyFans kiosks on the other they'd be doing 80's numbers.

>>20024433
its steep because it only costs like 10k to get started and corporate pays all the start up costs
but they also dont let you buy more than one unless youre really fucking good at it and youre in line behind all the corp store managers who want to give it a shot themselves. so it kind of is like hitting the lottery because you take on almost no risk and they are impossible to get

>>20024813
>orporate pays all the start up costs
not even kind of
>but they also dont let you buy more than one unless youre really fucking good at it and youre in line behind all the corp store managers who want to give it a shot themselves. so it kind of is like hitting the lottery because you take on almost no risk
lmao, not at all
>and they are impossible to get

Jesus you fucks are bad at business

>>20024798
You don't seem like someone that understands many things

>>20024819
>bad at business
what the fuck are you talking about? this is just how it works, its definitely not for everyone and its not expected to be a passive investment, its a career.
it costs 10k to start. corporate buys the land, builds the building, buys the equipment and gives you the food and paper products to open. you pay for it by giving them half the profits forever.
and they are impossible to get because any jackass can come up $10k. they only give franchises to people who they like and when they have a surefire winning location because they are putting up 1-3 million to get you started.

>>20024533
It's good quality. In my area:
CFA - tastes pretty good but bland, friendly service, ridiculously overpriced, not worth it
KFC - invariably gives me diarrhea, never going ever again
Popeyes - tastes great, horrible service, run by blacks who hate wypipo, can take half an hour to get food served and you never know if they've spit in it, I quit going because of the obvious hatred by the staff
BK/McD - shit quality
local grocery store - decent chicken but it sits out for hours
Costco rotisserie - flavorless, dry, dirt-cheap
Costco wings - annoying to eat, tastes good, probably the best value of any of them, not always available.

I've gone to CFA twice this year and each time remembered why I rarely bother going, just because of the price. Literally $17 for a single meal. I can spend that on a box of wings at Costco and it lasts three or four days.

>>20024541
You should try it. It's good chicken, and the red beans and rice is great. Unfortunately, it's the most popular chain among blacks.

>>20024741
All the more reason for me to support CFA. I guess I'll go back there again. BTW, please KYS and have a blessed day.

>>20024824
There are indeed a great many things I don't understand.
One thing I understand exceedingly well is the twisted, malignant vitriol that one swims through once contenting themselves to indulge the internet and its denizens, a great many of whom have unfortunately not been able to withstand the unparced information flow and had their brains gaped.
It's a fucking sandwich.

>>20024535
>You gonna spend $10,000,000 to make $5?
Am I going to make infinite money? Sure, why not?

>>20024856
THEY DON'T DO MOST OF THAT

Jesus fuck. You're dumb as fuck.

>>20024879
>Am I going to make infinite money? Sure, why not?
No, you're going to make $5 for every $10MM you spend, so a few of orders of magnitude less than what you'd get paid for just putting it in an interest bearing checking account.

>>20024535
>You're basically just the ubergeneral manager of a location
yes
>who also had to project manage
somewhat
>and fund a huge hunk of its construction.
no. chickfila owns the building. they pay for it.

>>20024888
then why does every source on the subject say they do?

>>20024962
He's obviously some assblasted faggot who just wants to trash them because one guy sent money to a political cause the assblasted faggot doesn't like.

Picrelated expresses my feelings on the subject.

>>20024962
Because you're a brainlet who doesn't read beyond the first line of anything. Opening costs are around $150k-$1 million. They do the real estate, yes, but they also keep the real estate. The rest? That's you. Note that kitchen equipment is not real estate. That's the building and the grounds.

>>20024970
no, i don't give a shit about conversion therapy. It's markedly better than giving kids hormones. It's you morons trying to talk about something you have ZERO understanding of as if you're authorities that has me in a twist.

>>20024516

>>20025026
id let miku cure my "gayness" iykwim

>>20025017
the equipment is leased from corporate. its 10k to get started. thats it. if you think its too good to be true its because its not for you. its incentive for top performing managers to stick around after they max their salaries and bonuses

Chick fil a is a bad food restaurant. Yuck!

>>20025045
>if you think its too good to be true its because its not for you
It's not "too good to be true". It's terrible. You can literally be a Bucky's manager and make twice your expected returns from owning your one and only CFA.
>leased
Exactly. Out of your pocket.

>>20024414
>Build it on the corner of a high traffic street
>traffic gets backed up for several blocks
>the police have to come direct traffic
>this occurs for several weeks
Ya fuck this place and fuck the city for poor planning.

>>20025087
there are less than 50 buc-ees locations so good luck with that
the reality is its not easy to find 6 figure retail/food service jobs so buying one for 10k is a pretty good deal.

>>20025119
It's literally 1:40,000 odds of being accepted, so yeah, not remotely "being able to buy one for $10k".
>not easy to find 6 figure retail/food service jobs
You can do better for less running a hotdog stand. Or you know, pick a more lucrative field.

I seem to recall reading that based on the number of applications vs franchises granted, it is significantly easier to get into most ivy league colleges than it is to become a CFA franchisee.

>>20024631
This is what failure looks like

>>20025135
of course you can make more money if you take on more risk. but that low acceptance rate should tell you that its a very good deal if youre risk averse or simply dont have the millions in net worth to buy into more profitible franchises

>>20024631
its actually a lesson in economics. the price is so low that they are turning away millions of customers everyday to long lines. they should switch to a variable pricing model that keeps lines short without losing any revenue.

>>20025155
>of course you can make more money if you take on more risk
the fuck? YOU CAN MAKE MORE MONEY WITH LESS RISK AND LESS EFFORT. Even at that $10k mark (which again, it isn't just $10k. You're out at least $150ishK your first year, specific market could be significantly over 7 figures). You're paying $10k to get a low six figure position that you can easily be fired from. How in the hell does this even kind of scan as a good idea? Fuck, get your CDL if you think those terms are good.
>but that low acceptance rate should tell you that its a very good deal
No. Not at all.

>>20025162
Not really. That line will be entirely cycled in just 5 minutes. People will get in that line but not one that's 3 deep at Mcdonald's because they know it'll move fast.

>>20024516
0% of the antifag marketing comes from chic fil a or the right, it's all seething leftists

>>20024631
>variable pricing model
>fast food

>>20024423
yup same with dairy queen. i haven't been to a dunkin or dq since I was like 5 that hasn't been run by Indians who barely know english.

>>20024516
ywnbaw tranny. also seethe more. they don't hate gays. in fact pretty much every fag in my town works at Chick-fil-A. they give money to christian charities which trannies lie about by screaming that they donate to anti-gay charities.

>>20025399
King Lemont of Communisticut has mandated that all Chick-a-flics must be opened on Sundays.

do you guys think there are any straight white namefags or are they all brown transvestites who will absolutely hang themselves ones the meager amount of attention they are capable of acquiring dries up

>>20025528
liberals ignoring the 1st amendment as usual. If I were in charge of CFA I'd just say ok and shut down every location in CT. what even is the reasoning they used to make that decree? CFA is not critical infrastructure, nobody is going to die because they couldn't get God's chicken on a sunday.

>>20025528
This is a verifiably false statement. Why would you post this?

>>20025140
Do you have their books?

>>20024433
Yeah I don't understand why people flock to glen carbon either Many other better places. Sad times.

>>20024414

Apparently it is quite competitive to get a franchise with CFA. Not as much as Waffle House though

>>20024421
It goes to the Lord.

>>20024513
>sales don't matter, margins do
Lad. Please. Stop talking.
Kind of impossible to have any margin without sales.

>>20025528
based, fuck fundies

>>20024421
It's also only 10k to actually open one, but it's a long process to get approved and most people get rejected, part of the reason they do well is because they only let people with high standards run their stores.

>>20024414

>>20025972
spiteful

>>20025969
>Lad. Please. Stop talking.
>Kind of impossible to have any margin without sales.
lmao. Sure thing, go out and rack up 1000 sales for a product that costs you $100 at a price of $50.

>>20026058
FUCK YEAH BABY! WE'VE GOT $50k IN REVENUE! WE BIG TIME

>>20024516
terrible fucking bait

>>20024423
One crisis at a time....

>>20024498
Amen. But it's a real reason to never eat there.

>>20024509
And it's still a dollar general....

>>20024515
Poor people think rich people are all lottery winners (and they are....), but don't understand that realer money is glacial >>20024813

>>20024516
>social justice pussy
Yes. PRIVATELY, without abusing government....so exactly not like one.

>>20024533
Classier presentation, quality control.
, so this >>20024536

>>20024544
But you own a gas station.....you can't get blown cause you own a gas station....it's gross. Teenagers and upper middle class moms don't eat at gas stations.

>>20024584
It a beautiful thing, even if it's for the wrong reason.

>>20024631
It took this? Cars were the ultimate cucking.

>>20024634
>looks over his shoulder at the arm for other white people

>>20024741
Thought those camps were a party. Malcolm in the Middle lied to me.....

>>20024778
Overrated, but yes.

>>20025399
I used to deliver to CFA, so unlike anyone else here, I for a real picture going to 12 of them a day. And yes, as a man man, the amount of twinks who.were very happy to see me, at the "anti-gay" restaurant was surprising. But also not at all cause fags think they have taste and are social clawing ditizes, like your worst girl. And are masochists, so....

>>20025543
How will you ever know if you just wonder aloud instead of direct replying coward
>from someone whiter and straighter than you

>>20025964
.......what? I've seen this training films...but really?

>>20025969
Does he really have to preface that with "all else being equal" to not have you all pipe up with babies first business retorts?

>>20024414
Theres only one nearby and it gets mogged by everything around it

I was surprised this year to see a Chick fil a food truck in my small town. It would park in a church parking lot on Friday and Saturday. The line would go around the block. It showed up about every other week. Didn't know they had food trucks too.

>>20024414
Your average chick-fil-a has 10x the revenue of your average subway.

>>20026123
nice reddit spacing fag

>>20024414
The one in my town has been there since pre scamdemic, and still has two lanes of cars wrapped around it from open to close. Working there must be pure hell.

@20026123 didn’t read

>>20026304
>summer child doesn't know what reddit spacing is
Wheels within wheels. I love it so much.

>>20026324
>nametag
>reddit spacing
He's going it for the (You)s

>>20024509
I hope every dollar general in the country burns down simultaneously

>>20026333
Or the stupid magnet, going by these non responses....

>>20026436
What the ruckus?

How is it that most of you retards don't get it? It's not the food it's the service that keeps people coming back. In clown world they are the only place that has remained a rock in the storm. You can use the bathroom without fearing stepping on a needle. You can get your order taken by a cute teenage girl who will smile at you sincerely and speak proper english. The inside of the store won't smell like old grease and mold. You can order being reasonably confident that it will be correct most of the time.
Even if you do go through the drive thru it's 5 times as fast as any other. You'll wait less with 20 cars in line than you would 5 at a mcdonalds.

You can't get these perks anywhere else in fast food. That is why they will remain the king until someone else wakes up and figures out that people are sick and tired of shit service in a place that could easily be confused for a drug den.

i want to try it but there's always a line out the door every time i go by, even random times that aren't associated with mealtimes
it's like they're dealing drugs or something

>>20025191
>YOU CAN MAKE MORE MONEY WITH LESS RISK AND LESS EFFORT
Enlighten me then. I'm a poor retard, I could save 10k in perhaps 2-3 years. What else could I be doing with less risk and less effort to make 6 figures? I'm not driving a truck. my spine can barely take desk work.

>>20026123
Jesus Christ fag no one needs your take on every single post in the thread

>>20024873
I know it defeats the purpose of fast food, but you can easily make fried chicken at home that tastes just like chick fill a

>>20027184
Maybe you can; I sure can't.

I did just have half a roast duck and a bowl of broccoli-cheese soup, though, and it cost less than what I'd have to spend at CFA for a meal that would leave me hungry four hours later.

Still, I guess I have to go to CFA to help them pay for the pray the gay away stuff.

idk if you know but chick fil a is a staple for instagram stories for europoor folk who are visiting the states

its an icon at this stage

>>20024631
This is why I have never been to a Chicfila
I can't be bothered to deal with a double wrapped drive through

>>20027576
>I can't be bothered to deal with a double wrapped drive through
I'd rather be behind 8+ cars in a chic-fil-a line than 2 cars at most other fast food joints.

>>20027653
Non-chuds value their time, however.

>>20028181
You're probably getting through the cfa line faster

I don't care for them, but they have mastered drive through. Fucking machines.

>>20025140
Ah yes, the canonical appearance of failed business... When I see a line wrapped twice around the perimeter of a business and overflowing the parking lot into the adjacent street, I think to my self "sucks to he that business owner, his business has obviously failed"

>>20028300
Dude's talking about infrastructure (roads in this case), not the business. You're kinda dumb.

>>20024529
This is not correct at all. The guy that owns the one in my town also directly owns 2 more nearby AND a catering/mobile food truck. My son worked there for a few months last summer break and I met the guy a few times.

>>20024414
they just built a new model in my town that is drive through/take out exclusively. it's literally across the street from a normal location lol. runs like a top tho.

>>20024414
all my local franchise owners are black :( and handsome :(

>>20024414
Getting the opportunity to own a franchise is the real lottery. Do you think just any schmo with a couple million bucks can just open one of they feel like it? No, you have to apply and it's harder to get a franchise than it is to get into Harvard. How do you think they all maintain such a clean image and manage to be so successful?

>>20028277
This has never been my experience at Chick-fil-a. Every other fast food restaurant I've seen has been faster.

>>20024529
>>20028340
It's how you structure the franchisee, CFA requires partnership if a corporation is used. So you pool your resources by having each partner be the franchisee for a single store, or you have husband/wife teams. Most QSRs allow corporate ownership of franchises

>>20024558
Keep it white and everything will be alright

>>20024631
>>20025140
>>20028303
I'm sorry your single mother didn't birth you in a high-rise apartment in a walkable 15-minute city but the truth is she'd have to take on two customers at a time to make that kind of cash and for her DP is for pleasure only, not business.

>>20029704
>This has never been my experience at Chick-fil-a. Every other fast food restaurant I've seen has been faster.
why do the dumb tranny leftists feel like just dropping the most obvious lies will be believed?

>>20029696
Literally just be white, smart and trust evoking with a firm handshake and strong eye contact.

the food is good (not great, just good) and the service is best in class. it's literally as simple as that. i live in morgantown, west virginia. the CFAs here have a permanent 30 car line at lunch time. the locations affiliated with the university facilities have lines in the HUNDREDS of people. sometimes the line goes out of the food court, and outside of the entire goddamn building.
dont get me wrong, people like maccies here too (one of the ones here was apparently the busiest one on the east coast at one point due to it being next to a bunch of dorms), but CFA undeniably clears.

>>20024516
I'm a fag and it's fine, just fast food chicken. The actual business itself isn't even anti LGBT it's just the founder is.
I prefer Popeye's chicken, but CFA has the best sides. Get their cheese sauce next time you go.

>>20031028
What?

imagine waiting in line for an hour for a fucking chicken sandwich

>>20031216
>morgantown, west virginia. the CFAs here have a permanent 30 car line at lunch time
maybe the PRT needs to go to the CFA

>>20031216
>service is best in class
long lines are not good service
the entire point of fast food is to be fast

>>20031232
Wait what? Cheese sauce? Their list of dipping sauces has no such thing. But I’d get it if it were there

>>20024513
>$120,000 - $150,000
What's wrong with that? That's enough money to own a home, a car, and have a family.

>>20024414
>Becoming a franchise owner

Not how it works, no such thing as a chick fil a "franchise". They own all buildings and property.

This is part of why they are so successful, there is less room for error with corporate keeping a firm grip on things.

>>20031374
I hate homes. They’re so much responsibility and fixing shit costs so much. Cars too. Driving sucks. And the family unit is inherently toxic and should be abolished

>>20031385
I have found that people that say this have always lived in homes and never dealt with living in an apartment

>>20024516
if only this were true

>>20031406
I’ve lived in both. Seeing what homeowners go through, I’ll stick with my rent-controlled apartment.

>>20025974
you're also only allowed to run one store at a time, so owners tend to be way more invested and involved in the day to day than some faggot dumping money into 4 different mcdonalds tier shitboxes with higher turnover rates than OP on one of his weekend visits to palm springs

I don't go to CFA because they make the employees stand outside even in hail storms, for no reason? What's the point of it? Terminal boomer illness franchise.