BNET:
In 2008 I became president of Moe’s Southwest Grill, a restaurant franchise based out of Atlanta, Georgia. We have 428 restaurants across 32 states, Canada, and most recently, Turkey. At this point, we’re growing at a rate of about one new restaurant a week and plan to have 65 new locations open by the end of this year.
The problem
While we’re very enthusiastic about growing the company, we found ourselves repeatedly facing the same issue when signing new restaurant owners: Very few of them had any experience in running a franchise or a restaurant.