• Investment Required
• Investment Level: $ 125 K
• Training and Support: Yes

Quiznos' corporate parent provides a great deal of support to potential Quiznos franchise owners, starting with nationwide advertisements and aggressive spot placements, and working down to regional support agents that will help future Quiznos franchise business holders select sites, hire contractors to do the building and construction, and provide training for potential staffers.

As a brand, Quiznos emphasizes a high end product, with proprietary breads and sauces, regular meal turnovers (meaning that every two to three weeks there's a new specialty sub out to refresh the menu) and an emphasis on high quality ingredients and artisan-level preparation of the sandwich.  This demarcates Quiznos franchises from their chief rivals (Blimpies and Subway) in that they're aiming to be more "upscale" in the billion dollar wrapped sandwich market.

Current practice with Quiznos is an absolute minimum of corporate owned stores, making this an appealing venture to potential franchisees – each store gets a dedicated, exclusive sales region, and no threat of being undercut by a corporate Quiznos franchise opening up.  Quiznos makes a good adjunct restaurant for shopping centers, and the company is actively recruiting for Quiznos franchisees willing to run in airports and small regional shopping centers.

The top level organization focuses on helping franchisees establish successful independent Quiznos franchises, and helping them differentiate themselves from competing vendors and chains with similar products; to this end, Quiznos Franchises, Inc. provides training and seminars, and brokers deals for ingredients on a national and regional scale, to keep costs down for those who've bought into Quiznos franchise business opportunities.

This support has driven much of the growth in the Quiznos brand – while Subway, which is owned by PepsiCo is almost 4 times the size, Quiznos per store sales average higher, and their median per store sales run at around $400,000 per store, giving a quite respectable return on investment for Quiznos franchise owners.  While the market is saturated with fast food restaurants, Quiznos Franchises, Incorporated's focus on same store repeat sales, and menu refreshes makes Quiznos restaurants more of a "destination" eatery than their competitors, and this is allowing them to continue expansion.  This is reflected in their strong advertising presence, and continued growth rate, and success in generating successful business ventures with their independent Quiznos franchise holders.  There are some definite parallels between Quiznos franchises and Avis and Hertz – Quiznos tries harder and provides more material support, because their average profit per sale is higher, due to charging more for a premium product made with the same general set of ingredients.

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