2.0
30 Oct 2018
Former employee, more than 5 years
Lakewood Ranch, FL
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Good opportunity to establish ongoing customer relationships. Diversity of revenue streams helps to equalize sales peaks and valleys.
Cons
You can't count on the franchise area office in Florida to provide any assistance to new franchisees. It seems as though their motto is "You Owe Us; We Don't Owe You Anything," even though they take a good chunk of your monthly royalty fee. Further, our experience with the local organization when we sold the business in early 2018 was that, after more than 10 months, we cannot get a final accounting of disbursements and ending balance in the escrow account which was withheld from us and, technically, is our money not theirs. Regrettably, we could not recommend buying a franchise in Florida.