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How many people do you think working the counter FT at Taco Smell can save enough money to afford their own franchise location? > The cost of opening a new Tac
by folkhack 6y ago
How many people do you think working the counter FT at Taco Smell can save enough money to afford their own franchise location?
> The cost of opening a new Taco Bell restaurant is between $1.2 million and $2.6 million. Taco Bell also charges a $45,000 franchise fee, an ongoing royalty fee equal to 5.5% of gross sales, and a marketing fee equal to 4.25% of gross sales.
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-it-costs-to-open-a-taco-bell-2014-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/what-it-costs-to-open-a-taco...
Give ME a break man. LOL.
- Consultant32452 6y agoI expect about 0% of people to go from the bottom level position at Taco Bell directly to owning one. But I'm sure you're smart enough to have known that. So why did you feel it would be useful to frame the scenario in such a disingenuous way?
- folkhack 6y agoI am 100% dialing it back in good-faith to explain why I just framed it as you put it. 1. I read tinco's comment to state (paraphrasing): "it is difficult to start a business, and for the common person it is a game of chance." Which, I absolutely agree with when I measure it against my life experiences/knowledge. 2. You replied with two questions, also paraphrasing: "It's a lottery to work at Taco Bell?", and, "And assuming you do work at Taco Bell, that you would become a manager who could save up to own their own store?" --- Given that scope of the conversation, I assumed you were positing that someone could seriously start working at a Taco Bell, start saving their money, and then some day afford their own franchise location. The first question of 2 is an absolute possibility, ie: it is not a lottery to work at Taco Bell and it would be silly to assume otherwise. That may have confused me leading into the second question, asked rhetorically, as something that you deemed possible. This is to say, "A person could absolutely work at Taco Bell, and they could also save to own their own some day." The "Gimme a break man" in reply to someone saying something that I deem 100% rational (#1) with two rhetorical questions that seem to paint the situations that they posit as rational possibilities confuses the crap out of me. Simply put: You submitted two arguments, seemingly painted as possible realities, in an adversarial way to something I saw as a rational and relevant statement. I fired back thinking you thought that was possible because there's not much context to figure otherwise. If I confused your comment I apologize. Quick Edit: When I posted this reply I saw another person, harimau777, answering similar to myself with another credible source (also with a much higher caliber quality of language - I'm goof sometimes). What I'm trying to say is I'm not the only one who took your statements this way.
- Consultant32452 6y agoI told the story of one person I knew who started working at Taco Bell in high school and then worked his way up to eventually owning a few of them. The response to that was, "Well, just a lottery winner" with no argument whatsoever. How can you have taken that seriously?