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Yianni Kosmides | Owner | Apóla Greek Grill
Five Tips to Opening a Successful Franchise Restaurant If you’re looking for a new career, you may want to consider opening a franchise restaurant. This advice may come as a surprise with the coronavirus pandemic making life challenging for the hospitality industry. However, that’s exactly why opening a franchise restaurant in 2021 and beyond can prove so lucrative. American diners desperately want to dine out, and once we put COVID restrictions behind us, aspiring restaurateurs should find plenty of available locations to choose from.
Franchising USA
As the owner and CEO of nine popular family restaurants (and growing), I have a strong idea of what it takes to do well in this business. While our family expands the reach of our authentic, fast-casual Greek grill, Apóla; through franchise agreements, we use a rigorous screening process to determine whether potential franchisees will make a good fit. Here are five qualities we believe make an effective franchise partner.
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Be open to embracing a new working culture
We all have been exposed to different working cultures, carrying different types
of baggage. When embracing a new work environment, it is important to let go of all ego and jump at the opportunity. You cannot be too opinionated, too selfcentered, or too proud to admit mistakes or to learn from others or you will not fit into an existing company’s culture and will likely fail. One person alone does not know everything, and success comes by working as a team. It goes without saying that if you do not know everything, we do not know everything either. But as a team, we can make anything happen.
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Keep an open mind The ideal franchisee is someone
