re: how hard is it to buy into a franchise business

Here's a franchise FOMO true story:

In 2002, I approached Graves about franchising (through me) Cane's to the Northeast. I had been bringing droves of people down for LSU games and every single person would start looking forward to the trips just because of the damned Cane's! Believe it or not, it actually was considered sort of an open question whether or not yankees would eat the stuff.

This was before they had a huge number of stores and they didn't even have one franchise yet. He actually said yes - BUT...he wanted me to move to BR and work in stores for 9 months. He wanted me to start on the fry line and work every position so I knew it inside and out.

Well, I was young, and just engaged and living 1500 miles away and I just wasn't willing to do it.