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Take a tour of Ellianos Coffee Company by reviewing our website. Review the Franchise Information section thoroughly to determine if you meet our current financial requirements to become an Ellianos franchisee.
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Complete the Request for Information and Pre-application. Once we receive your Request and Pre-application, we will send you additional information to your email address. Our email may also include a request for a phone number, date, and time that we may call you for an initial discussion on the possibilities of franchising with Ellianos. Our initial phone call may be by appointment only as we like to commit our time and want you to commit your time to a very important uninterrupted conversation.
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Complete the FDD Receipt and Mutual Non-disclosure Agreement: After our initial telephone discussion, we will email a Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) to you for your review, and signature on the FDD Receipt inside the back cover. We are required by federal law to provide the FDD information to you. e FDD is a document that discloses extensive information to you on our company, our officers, the franchise system, financial performance representations, and also includes copies of our franchise contract forms. Because we and you will share financial and other private or proprietary information with each other, we will also email a Mutual Non-disclosure Agreement (MNDA) to you for your signature.
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Schedule a Visit to Ellianos Corporate Office in Lake City, Florida: Approximately 10 days after we send you the FDD, we will call you to determine our mutual interest level to continue our discussion of forming a franchise business relationship. If we and you wish to proceed further, we will schedule a visit for you and any members of your business team and/or family to meet our corporate team in Lake City, Florida. is is both a business and personal visit where we get to know one another and start building a future long-term relationship.
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Complete your Franchise Application: Your completed application will include the Ellianos Franchise Application, a Business Plan (optionally using our business plan template), your financial background information, such as bank statements, balance sheets, etc., and financial pro-formas using Ellianos provided pro-forma template spreadsheets that will show projected cash flows from the franchisee's proposed number of units to be developed.
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Evaluation of Your Application: When we receive your completed application package, we will evaluate it from a business viability standpoint. Upon completion of our evaluation, you shall be notified by telephone of our decision on your application, followed by an official Decision Letter from our company. If your application is approved, both our phone call and Decision Letter will include a discussion of “next steps.”
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Complete Letter of Interest : If you apply for and are approved as a franchisee with us, we will prepare and sign a with you a Letter of Interest. This letter is a non-binding letter that will outline all of the agreed upon terms of your franchise contract. The signed Letter of Interest is the event that triggers numerous internal processes to bring a new franchisee into the Ellianos’ family.
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Sign and Fund the Franchise Contract: The Franchise Contract will be prepared and be shipped to you for signature and payment of the balance of the earlier agreed upon franchise fees due. Upon receipt of the contract from you, our President will counter-sign the contract, and a copy will be returned to you via courier service.
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Schedule Training: After the franchise contract has been signed, we will schedule you and one or more of your managers for Initial Training to be held at our corporate offices and corporate training store in Lake City, Florida. During training, all manuals, toolkits, brochures, and other materials will be loaned to you for the duration of your relationship with Ellianos as a franchise.
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Grand Opening! Congratulations upon the opening of your Ellianos Coffee Shop! Our corporate operations training team will be on site at your coffee shop from the day before Grand Opening, on Grand Opening Day, and the day following. is is when additional field training will be provided to you and your store operations staff to ensure your success as an Ellianos franchisee.
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