Management consulting digression and discussion from the What were you thinking thread

[JohnT]

I do consultancy work (not my bread and butter, tbf), am damned good at it, and my clients are better off for it.

Franchisers, the lowest of the low. (Long)

Had a meeting about a month ago, a couple wanted to talk to me about their investment in Resting Rainbows, a pet crematorium franchise out of Miami, FL. They were a week away from signing the agreement, it was a $500,000 investment which they were going to largely finance. There are not a lot of franchised units with this brand, most of them in FL with zero presence in TX, so the financials available were of the corporate location. Running my numbers, it didn’t look like the worst investment in…