Pillar 4: the unfair advantage
The lived experience of the people who actually run these businesses: interviews, confessions and first-person accounts. Honest, and where it needs to be, anonymous.
“Nobody tells you the second store is harder than the first. The bank thinks you have done it before. You have not.”
Multi-site QSR operator, Gauteng. Representative of what operators report; first-hand notes publish as they are collected.“The landlord’s turnover clause cost me more than the royalty ever did. Nobody modelled it.”
Multi-site operator, food court QSR, Durban. Representative.“The setup quote was honest. The working capital number was not even close.”
Coffee operator, three sites, Cape Town. Representative.Nothing published in this section yet.
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