Mfg. - Food and Kindred Products | Retail - Restaurants

Asking Price	$225,000	Inventory
Gross Income	$464,314	Real Estate
Cash Flow	$95,547	Year Established	2006
FF&E	$99,450*	Employees	3

* included in the asking price

** not included in the asking price

This meal assembly business is a fun, simple concept that helps bring families together around the dinner table. It has the perfect ingredients for success-it's economical, time saving and takes the hassle out of cooking.This well organized, lively business takes the time consuming work out of cooking--from grocery shopping to chopping and mixing to saut ing to pots and pan cleanup. Every menu item is a nutritious, kid-friendly meal meant to delight the pickiest eater. All the recipes, food handling systems and processes were personally selected or created by a leading Phoenix area chef and food service professional.Here's how it works-You register on their website. They have over 3,000 registered members. Every month you log on to the website using your password.You review the available menus, pay with a credit card and set up an appointment for you and your friends to assemble your meals. Most people buy a package of 6, 8 or 12 meals.Upon arrival, you put on an apron and disposable gloves. Each station is set up with the food and spices for an entr e. You follow the easy, step by step instructions and put your food in the aluminum pan you'll carry it home in. Each package is labeled and comes with cooking instructions.Assembly stations are fun and easy. Assembly is often done in a party atmosphere with a group of friends. It takes 1 to 2 hours to assembly a month's worth of meals ready for the freezer. This business has done a terrific job of implementing a multilevel marketing plan composed of print advertising, newspaper and magazine public relations, community outreach to schools, charities and fundraisers, a monthly newsletter emailed to 3,000 registrants on their website and participation in direct mail programs. Comparable franchises have startup costs exceeding $300,000.

Facilities: Business is located in a high traffic lovcation just off the 101--convenient to the Glendale/Peoria/Cave Creek/North Scottsdale areas.

Competition: This is the first meal assembly business to open in the area and has a well established, loyal clientele. Most of their customers are from the area but many customers travel from Scottsdale, Anthem, Tempe, Goodyear and Avondale for the high quality food and friendly atmosphere. Being first in a revolutionary concept, this business has been the subject of numerous television and feature articles in the AZ Republic and community newspapers.

Growth/Expansion: Rarely do Entrepreneurs have the opportunity to tap into a unique concept on the ground floor. This business has done an exceptional job of marketing intended to build business by referrals. Business gained by referrals represents the segment with the strongest loyalty and the greatest probability of retention.

Financing: as required

Reason Selling: Family commitments