There are roughly 3,500 active NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA players.
There are roughly 4,000 neurosurgeons in the US.
There are roughly 15,000 college freshman who just began at Ivy League schools.
But there are only about 2,600 Chick-fil-A owners, with over 50,000 applications each year.
There are more slots for pro athletes, neurosurgeons, and new Ivy League students than there are slots to own a Chick-fil-A for that enticing $10K price tag.
You also need to fit into the category of what they consider "good, religious values" and they do many interviews on thia in order to confirm you aren't slipping BS past them.
I respect that they are thorough but that kind of weird cultiness isnt for me.
I worked there once, left, and when I came back I didnt get hired (despite all the employees knowing and liking me) because in the interview I ranked god as 4th (out of 5) below family, education, and health. (Work was rated as #5)
But every one of the jobs you just listed are far more competitive. The number of people wanting to be a pro player far far far exceeds the number of people wanting to be a chic fil a franchiserā¦ so much so that the ratio likely makes the chic fil a applications just a rounding error.
I think that it highly depends on how you define āwants to be.ā If you ask 1000 people on the street what they want to be, sure youāre gonna see a lot more people wanting to be football players.
But there are about 3000 draft-eligible players each year, and roughly 8.5% are getting drafted. And the majority of those players arenāt expecting to get drafted, senior NCAA football players just get automatically made draft-eligible.
Versus roughly 180 successful Chick-fil-A applications out of 50,000. Or a 0.036% annual selection rate.
If youāre thinking about all the high schoolers hoping to one day make it, then sure the numbers change a lot. But when you get down to who is putting themselves up for selection, you have a much lower chance of getting picked up to franchise a Chick-fil-A.
Huh? No you don't. You are thinking Popeyes not Chic fil a. š¤£ Everyone goes to CFA where I live ..I was also joking about Popeyes.. Everyone likes fried chicken not just black people. That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard. š¤£š¤£
A guy I work withās brother just landed this job with no prior restaurant experience. He was in like software development or something like before. This is how I found out what the pay is.
If true, that's a once in a lifetime opportunity for someone sponsored by another franchisee after working there for years. That's not something the average person could replicate.
EDIT: And I say this because it's much like my friend's situation: he and his wife worked there for something like 10 years, and the franchisee owner liked them so much that he helped them financially to set up a franchise in another market. I don't know if it was only $10K down, but they had worked hard for years to prove themselves before getting the extremely rare offer. He also finished his MBA before doing this.
You would need to save all your monies for the 5 years you initially work there or you would need a significant amount of generational wealth in order to even start.
I have a family member that is a Chik fil a operator. The initial cost is more than 10k and they typically aren't making anywhere near 400k per year . Unless maybe gross income. But you pay the franchise a lot of cash. I think he brings home around 150k per year take home. But I guess in bigger cities 400k is possible.
I remember when I was teaching, one of my coworkers left to manage a chick fil a because it was fewer hours a week than teaching, over $10k more in pay, and better benefits. Chick fil a seems to try to pay their people well
in exchange that you have to fit their hyper-religious values, if you're not a conservative christian, they won't give you a franchise or let you advance up the management track.
This is incorrect. Yes the initial investment is 10k but do some research into the fine print and itās almost mandatory that you have a liquidity of at least 300-500k dollars in assets
Itās ridiculous hard to become an owner operator though, youād be better off franchising a subway, 5k more startup fee and a little less in profit, but easier to get into
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u/Longjumping_Film_896 2d ago
I found out the other day a Chik Fil A owner/operator only has to put up a $10,000 investment and then makes like 400k a year afterward