Jerry Murrell

“And if you add up all of the restaurants and franchises around the world, he says they are approaching two billion dollars in revenue.”

“In fact, my mom used to say, if you can make a good hamburger, or serve a good drink, or give a good haircut, you'll always... Have something to do, yeah. Have an income.”

“When I started Five Guys, I let three or four of my buddies that I went to high school with buy stock in my company, because I thought it would be a great thing for them, because they didn't have money. A little bit, they had a little bit of money, but not muc…”

“We own about 75% of the company, me and my family.”

“Most franchisers start off to franchise. We didn't start off to franchise. We had no idea we were going to do that. We started off to build a family business, and we put 17 years into it, and we figured out how to do it right. So when it came time to franchisi…”

“We'd say, give us 5000 dollars, we'll give you a certain percentage of the gross, not never the profit, because there was always too many ways to get cheap people that way.”

“We would always say, food costs would stay around 30%. Whatever we gotta do, if we gotta raise prices, we raise prices. And we said, if we have to worry about price, we don't want to be in this business.”

“And we made money from our very first day, and we were breaking even, and we were paying our rent.”

“We had three sons plus one more son with Janie. My fifth son wasn't born yet, so it was four sons and me, so we said, well, we'll call it Five Guys for now, and then we'll change it.”

“Our first story put 35,000 dollars in it.”

“And we said, well, if we can put it where, you know, it's hard to find, but if we can get people coming there, then we know we got something.”

“So me and the kids, that got into our mind, like, you know, hamburgers, fries, keep it simple, might work. And that's where the idea came from.”

“I tried a few businesses. I started an oil business in Texas, and I did a couple other dumb things. I tried to start a water business, of all things. I thought selling bottled water back then would have been a good idea, and everybody laughed at me. I had a ha…”

“When I started Five Guys, I let three or four of my buddies that I went to high school with buy stock in my company, because I thought it would be a great thing for them, because they didn't have money. A little bit, they had a little bit of money, but not muc…”

“We own about 75% of the company, me and my family.”

“We'd say, give us 5000 dollars, we'll give you a certain percentage of the Gross. Not, never the profit, because there was always too many ways to get cheap people that way. So I said, we'll give you a certain percentage of the gross. We'll give you the money …”

“There must have been 20 places selling boardwalk fries, but only one place had a long line, and that was Threshers. It was, the line was a hundred feet long all day long. So me and the kids, that got into our mind, like, you know, hamburgers, fries, keep it si…”

“I tried to start a water business, of all things. I thought selling bottled water back then would have been a good idea, and everybody laughed at me. I had a hard time raising money.”