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Dinners Ready!

Dinners Ready provides delicious, restaurant-quality meals designed to freeze and cook at home, saving customers time and money. Dinners Ready meals are made from scratch, and they do all the meal planning, shopping, food prep and clean up, saving customers trips to the grocery store, and always enjoying wonderful meals with ultimate convenience. Dinners Ready offers three convenient ways to enjoy a variety of meals: they can make the meals for customers, chosen from a list of selections; customers can make the meals themselves if they prefer, by visiting a Dinners Ready location, and receiving a discount; or customers may Grab N’ Go, simply stopping by a participating location and picking up pre-assemble meals to cook at home. It’s simple, it’s convenient, and it’s affordable. Dinners Ready.

Facts & figures
Liquid capital required
$175,000
Investment
$140,000 - $225,000
Franchise fee
$35,000

Imagine a business in which the customer orders meals online and them simply chooses a time to come to a kitchen and picks them up. That’s the opportunity a Dinners Ready franchise offers its customers. And a Dinners Ready franchise is a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor of this rapidly growing industry. Dinners Ready offers everything franchisees need to get started and continue operating a successful, profitable business, using superior food and facilities. Dinners Ready provides full support, marketing and strategy, utilizing years of franchise experience. Dinners Ready will host and maintain franchisees’ websites, with all associated costs included, and franchisees will enjoy a clearly defined and protected territory. All franchisees receive five days of training at the ‘Dinners University’ with professional trainers and corporate staff.

Dinners Ready Franchise Opportunities – History

Dinners Ready was founded in 2003 by Scott Farrar and Brad Vorhees, in Mukilteo, Washington, and has grown to 35 stores in the United States and Canada, offering 16 meal choices with a changing menu every month.

Dinners Ready Franchise Cost / Initial Investment / Dinners Ready

Franchise Income

The franchise fee for Dinners Ready is $35,000. The total investment required to open and operate a Dinners Ready franchise ranges from $140,000 to $225,000. A 6% royalty fee on gross sales is paid to the company, in addition to a 2% advertising fee.

Dinners Ready Business Opportunities: Other Information

Dinners Ready founder Scott Farrar was named one of Seattle’s Top 25 Innovators of 2006 by the Seattle Business Monthly for his meal assembly company.

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