Post #274450 by Robertiki on Fri, Dec 22, 2006 7:51 AM

So this lady drops a package under the door on how she wanted to open a tiki bar downtown, but until then she wanted to work for me.

Yeah right, I'm going to hire someone who's goal is to soak up the tiki culture, then take the concept and become my competition.

Plus her resume was all education based, not food/drink related. Strange.

So she came in last night and boy did she have a tale to tell.

She had been trying to open a Trader Vic's Mai Tai bar. She had investors lined up, consultants hired and realators scouting for locations.

It was a several hour conversation, but I will give you some highlights:

To buy a TVMYB, the franchise fee is only $50,000. Actually pretty cheap and not much more than a Subway. However, they insist on you spending $700,000 in the build-out.

the prices are double for a full size Trader Vic's.

TV would prefer a downtown location, and they insist on a patio. Both these requirements seem to us the opposite of how the Bellevue WA location came out.

Sven, director of new developement even flew from Germany to Portland to scout ot locations, but none of them were either big enough or had the patio they require.

Anyway, in the end, she is such a nice lady with an infectious good nature, I might even hire her for a shift or two.
Robert