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Corporate Catering Franchise
A South Carolina franchise of a national corporate catering brand, making scratch-baked boxed lunches and catering for a repeat business client base.
Business Highlights
- Franchise of a national corporate catering brand with an established local customer base
- Built-in repeat B2B client base rather than one-off consumer orders
- Five employees working from a dedicated food preparation facility
- Daily scratch baking including breads and cookies
- Online ordering with pickup and delivery
Considerations / Questions to Ask
- Margins are thin relative to revenue. Where is the cost concentrated, and what would a hands-on operator change?
- What are the franchise terms, royalty and remaining agreement length?
- How concentrated is revenue among the largest corporate accounts?
- Corporate catering follows the working week and office attendance. How has demand tracked hybrid working?
- What are the lease terms on the preparation facility?
Opportunities
- The listing itself identifies margin improvement as available to a hands-on operator, which suggests it is being run at arm's length today
- B2B catering repeats on a weekly or monthly cycle once an account is won
- Scratch baking is a differentiator against boxed-lunch competitors buying in
- The franchise platform supplies playbooks that an independent operator would have to build