Retail & Physical Business — what 45 operators said

The episodes

How AI Is Changing Retail, Style, and the Future of Shopping | Anya Cheng

The “Real American Beer” Playbook for Breaking Into a Saturated Industry FAST

How Big Dave’s Cheesesteaks Went from Gas Station Restaurant to Multi-Location Franchise | Derrick Hayes

From Oil Deals to Entrepreneurship: Brad Blazar’s Masterclass on Funding & Business Growth

Sawyer Hemsley - Cookie Crumbl: Organic Micro Influencing Using Instagram and TikTok

Making Real Estate Investing Approachable For The Masses w/ Grant Cardone

How to Build Wealth in Real Estate with OPM | Justin Brennan

From Reebok to Syntilay: Footwear Innovation with Joe Foster & Ben Weiss

Business News: Railroads Merge, Prebiotic Pepsi Pops Off, Real Estate Investors Surge, and Chicago's Sports Collectors Convention Heats Up

Business News: Tariff Tidal Wave - GPT-5 Changes the Game - Meta Recruits Top AI Talent - Prime Day Goes Bigger Than Ever - Frozen Fed Rates

Unlocking Passive Income: Secrets to Real Estate Success with Dani Lynn Robison

Business News: Amazon’s Fuel-Cell Fleet, Fast-Food Price Wars, Sky-High Shipping, AI Guardrails, and Ikea Micro-Stores

From Trading Cards to Connections: The Heart of the Industry with Matty Rich

Business News: The Real Opportunity w/ AI - Creating Leverage - Real Estate Market Softening

BUSINESS NEWS: US Easter Spending Soars $23.6B - Tom Brady's Trading Card Vault - Katy Perry's Space Adventure

Mindset vs Skillset: The Secret to Business Success with Pace Morby

In their words

And to be fair, I would never start a business other than a franchise, again, like if I was to do this, I would only buy a franchise, because to create a business from scratch, it is hard.

Andrew Pudalov · What A Rush! From Stock Options Trader to Healthy Fo (22:00)

And in each franchise disclosure document, there's a lot of information that's incredibly helpful for you to make that decision, including earnings claims that shows like my favourite air conditioning franchise, the average franchise is doing close to $3 million these days.

Lance Graulich · From Donuts to Dollars: Exploring the Franchise King (13:46)

I see an item on here that I would like to stranglehold the creator of that is exists in our house. And that would be the creator of Elf on the shelf.

Ryan Alford · Cyber Monday Smashes Records, Ryan Declares War on E (10:07)

There should be a program for young adults that requires them to go work in the restaurant industry.

Spike Mendelsohn · Spike Mendelsohn - Top Chef Alum, Author, Restaurate (0:00)

Now, you got, you got some franchise owner who's got multiple stores and a real estate portfolio who's probably doing okay, but he's not focused on the, he's not focused on the restaurant experience.

Steve Robinson · The Secret Sauce: Chick Fil A's Magical Business For (37:48)

A lot of people have been interested in opening a franchise and many of our franchise owners currently want to open more.

Sawyer Hemsley · Sawyer Hemsley - COO of Crumbl Cookie (28:49)

What comes up again and again

Crumbl has never actively sold a franchise — every franchisee, starting with Sawyer's parents, sister and college roommate, came to them. (Sawyer Hemsley - Cookie Crumbl: Organic )
Nine food companies control roughly 99% of the food people eat, so breaking into retail shelf space means paying slotting fees and heavy costs that Andrew calls "not for the faint of heart." (What A Rush! From Stock Options Trader t)
Mall foot traffic in 2023 was down only 5.8% from 2019 levels, versus a 15% decline in 2021 — and experiences and restaurants, not retail, are driving the recovery. (The Week of April 12 | Jeff Bezos's "Bil)
Jeff's franchise screen: a brand should have at least five years of operating history and units doing $1M, preferably $2–3M, per location before franchising. (Undercover Boss and Franchising Maven wi)
Opening a Crumbl franchise runs roughly $350,000 to $500,000 depending on location, applications are on the website, and many states are already sold out. (Sawyer Hemsley - COO of Crumbl Cookie)
Once you franchise, you're no longer in your original business; you're in the support, marketing and analytics business, and Austin estimates most franchise companies fail because they miss that. (Austin Evans - Lessons in Entrepreneursh)
Franchise what you've already perfected and shelf new product ideas for later — new offerings feel novel locally but the existing concept is new to the whole country. (Austin Evans - Lessons in Entrepreneursh)
If you run a retail shop with foot traffic, put a QR code that goes directly to your ecommerce store, and use them for menus, sale boards, and business cards. (Weekly Marketing and Advertising News, M)
Don't bring a product to market with an imperceptible change; identify exactly which brand you would push off the shelf and why, and start thinking like a merchant. (Mrs. Meyer’s: How Reinventing a Boring C)
Design for dwell time, not transactions: Google reports the average visitor spends an hour and a half in Matty's shop, a signal of community rather than retail traffic. (From Trading Cards to Connections: The H)

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How do you scale a restaurant business from one location to many?

Does social media actually drive foot traffic to a restaurant?

How do you franchise a restaurant or food business?

How do you get a new beer brand into retail distribution fast?

How many Big Dave's Cheesesteaks locations are there and is it a franchise?

Is buying a franchise better than starting a food business from scratch?

Why are Lowe's, Target and Home Depot retail numbers down?

Where is Netflix opening its first brick-and-mortar location?

All 88 episodes

Why Brand Loyalty Is Dying: Shopper Promiscuity Explained

Mrs. Meyer's Founder Monica Nassif on Disrupting a Category

Anya Cheng on AI, Data Moats and the Future of Shopping

Real American Beer's Playbook for Breaking Into Big Beer

Derrick Hayes: Big Dave's Cheesesteaks Franchise Story

Brad Blazar on Raising Capital With Other People's Money

How Crumbl Cookies Grew to 500+ Stores

Grant Cardone: Real Estate Investing for Everyday People

Building Real Estate Wealth With Other People's Money

Joe Foster & Ben Weiss on AI 3D-Printed Shoes

Railroad Merger, Prebiotic Pepsi and TikTok's 60-Min Test

Tariffs, GPT-5, Prime Day and Frozen Fed Rates

Dani Lynn Robison on Passive Real Estate Income

Amazon AI Jobs, Dollar Menus, Drones and IKEA Micro-Stores

Inside the Trading Card Boom with Matty Rich

AI Leverage, Cooling Real Estate & Meta's New AI App

Easter's $23.6B, Tom Brady's Card Vault, Katy Perry in Space

Pace Morby on Why Mindset Beats Skillset in Real Estate

Amazon's TikTok Bid, Musk Exits DOGE, OpenAI's $40B

Consumer Sentiment Tanks as Retail Closures Pile Up

NoBaked Cookie Dough: Jimmy Feeman on Scaling a CPG Brand

DOGE Dividends, XRP ETFs and the Sports Card Boom

Valentine's Day Spending and Super Bowl Ad Records

TikTok, Tariffs, Luka to the Lakers and Card Booms

Inauguration Billionaires, Crypto Trends & Amazon's Slip

Superplastic on Collectibles, Scarcity and Vegas Retail

The 2024 Naughty and Nice Businesses List

Crypto Rebounds, Musk Hits $400B, Literacy Slips

Cyber Monday Records, Elf on the Shelf, and Teen Bans

Ryan Stewman on Prison, Rates and the Force of Average

Crypto Investing, Trump's Coin & #MomTok Brand Deals

Buying Real Estate Without Banks: Chris Prefontaine

Chick-fil-A's Secret Sauce with CMO Steve Robinson

Cheapest States, Samsung's Galaxy Ring & TikTok's AI Genie

Rush Bowls Founder Andrew Pudalov on Building a Category

Nvidia Tops Apple: Weekly Business News, June 21

Jamil Damji on Wholesaling, TV Fame and Real Impact

OpenAI Lawsuits, Instagram vs TikTok, Hims Weight Shots

Bezos's Billionaire Bunker, Malls Back, Vision Pro Woes

Stanley Targets Men, Apple's Gemini Deal & March Madness