Buying a Burger King Franchise

Burger King is a franchise company which specializes in selling hamburgers and different kinds of sandwiches. If you want to start a business and you want to be in the fast food industry, Burger King may be the right franchise to start by you.

Before you decide to whether purchase a Burger King franchise or not, here are some of the things that you may want to consider.

One of the most important things that you should take note is that in order for you to qualify as a franchisee of Burger King, you need to have a certain amount of net worth first to ensure that you will be able to pay the fees such as the franchising fee.

To open up a burger king, there will be a franchise fee of $50,000 and you also need to invest a minimum amount of $300,000. The total investment that you need to put up depends on several factors such as the location of the franchise itself.

Unfortunately, Burger King does not provide funding assistance to individuals who want to be their franchisees but worry not because there are still several options for you in case that you do not have sufficient amount of money to start a Burger King franchise.

One option that you can consider is to borrow money. You can borrow money from banks but make sure that you will only borrow the amount of money enough to start a Burger King franchise. You do not want to borrow excessive amount of money because if you will, you might lose your collaterals because you were not able to pay in due time. You can provide your house, car, other businesses, or realty properties as your collateral. Collaterals are needed to ensure that the bank will have something in return if you were not able to pay the amount of money that you borrowed.

Burger King also requires franchise applicants to have an experience in dealing with general business. Also, marketing experience may be required to ensure that you know something about the industry that you want to be a part of.

Before you decide to purchase a franchise of Burger King, do a little research first about Burger King itself to ensure that you are choosing the right company. You should also contact or talk to previous or current owners of Burger King Franchises to have an idea on what it is like to be a franchisee of Burger King. You can also ask them about their income; ask them whether they are generating ideal profit or not.

You might also want to seek legal assistance so that you will have someone to help you with the paper works by the time that you purchase a franchise of Burger King. Read carefully the contract before you sign it so that you will know all the agreements between you and the franchise company and to avoid troubles in the future.

3 Comments

  • Rafik Hemnani said on January 6, 2013
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  • dev thakur said on July 25, 2017
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