You can open a McDonald's for just $45,000.

You can open a McDonald's for just $45,000. The average McDonald's brings in $3.5 million in revenue every year. But the $45,000 is just the franchise fee. You still need to pay for three months rent upfront, build out, signage, seating, equipment, etc. These pre-opening expenses can run from $521,000 up to a more realistic $2.5 million, which is why they only take 5% of gross sales as a royalty fee and an additional 4% of gross sales for the advertising fund. After all expenses, you can expect to earn about $526,000 a year. I have a couple of thoughts on this. Number one, I don't know why you'd want to buy a McDonald's. Franchising is great. I'm not knocking franchising. I'm in franchising, but I don't know why you want to buy a McDonald's. There's nothing healthy about that. That's number one. Number two, he said, you know, the franchise fee is $45,000. Great, but you still have hundreds of thousands of dollars you have to pay to obviously build out the store, rent upfront, and you do not own the building. McDonald's owns the building. You would rather, much rather, go with a franchise. And again, obviously, you know, I'm not going to start pitching GymGuyz here, but at the end of the day, let's be realistic. Everything in this world is about convenience. That's not going anywhere. Tell me the last time you ordered off Amazon last minute, last hour, last week, or you know someone who has. Guarantee it's been in the last probably hour. That's the future. That's not going anywhere. Now, going with brick and mortar, because as we like to say when we compare ourselves to a gym model, we are not a gym, we're the rebellion against it. Gyms have very high expenses, very low margins. We have very high margins, very low expenses. So when you're looking into franchising, I would highly advise you looking into something where you're not going to have to spend that type of money because the cost there is going to be astronomical.