Dream Dinners Franchise In Laguna Niguel For Sale

Business description

Business For Sale: The Dream Dinners Franchise in the Southern California Coastal communities of Newport Coast, Laguna Niguel, and Dana Point. During a recession, people have less time and less income to go out for a good meal. For just two hours a month, any person can create six to twelve, mouth-watering, nutritious, meals for family, dates or dinner parties, saving money and using the same high quality ingredients found in high-end grocery stores. The business currently has more than 500 customers in their database and about 110 customers prepare meals in this store. The business sits in the middle of an ideal target market; the territory has 78,020 households with a median income of $81,858. Which is twice the average size territory and directly within the target market. The facilities are underutilized, they offer 6 sessions per week while the full capacity of the store is 42 sessions per week. The store and the kitchen equipment are all a little over a year old. Experienced employees are in place and the owners have found little difficulty in hiring and training. The Dream Dinners franchiser estimates that the typical start-up costs vary from $250 K to $370 K. The ideal new owner is someone who is social, and has expertise in marketing. The current owners do not have enough time to devote to building the business; they both have full-time jobs and are raising families in addition to running this business.

Property information

Real Estate:

Lease

Other information

Expansion potential:

The Franchise territory, has 78,000 high income families who can use this service.
New Owners make their own take and Bake products expanding the business for take out.
New owners can contract with existing businesses to provide food services.
The business dovetails with Catering, or Delivery food Services.
The business could serve social causes such as Wheels on Meals, or help serve the large elderly community nearby.

Competition / Market:

All of the hard work in creating a startup business is done. The business is just under break-even - doubling the customer base leads to a healthy profit All equipment and facilities are nearly new and beautiful. Limited marketing has been done by the existing owners. Purchase a running business for less than the projected start-up costs.

Support & training:

Seller will train

Reasons for selling:

Pursue Existing Interests

Trading hours:

Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun, some evenings

Financing available:

Call

Furniture / Fixtures value:

$77,088 (included in the asking price)