Jimmy John's

“From 93 to oh three, I took my 10 stores to 25, and took the franchise from zero to 200. And that, and this is a story, oh three, I got 200 stores open and 70 are failing.”

“I sold I sold two thirds of the business in 2016. And in 2019, I rolled my retaining 33%, whatever it was, into Inspire Brands, which is Jimmy John's, Dunkin' Donuts, Buffalo Wild Wings, Sonic, and Arby's.”

“I learned that every attack and every, every single one came from democratic supported parties, different, different, different, different groups. But it was a hundred percent. Liberal and Democrat people, Soros type stuff.”

“I had a written test. That would, that was a that you would fill out, and I would grade the test, and if they scored a certain way, it said the chances of this person stealing from you know, is pretty good or not, and it was like a Myers-Briggs, but it was for…”

“It was 350,000 open a store. The stores did about 900,000 in sales and the average store made about 200,000 dollars of profit.”

“As soon as we got to the real courts, we won it on a summary judgment, but that stopped momentum for like seven years.”

“Well, my father gave me a budget of 25,000 dollars and I wanted to open a Chicago hot dog stand. And when I found out how much equipment it took to open a hot dog stand with fryers and steam tables and milkshake machines and ovens and hoods and all that, I did…”

“14 of 17 department heads at Jimmy John's that became millionaires when I sold through stock, they were all came from the sandwich shop, Joe.”

“And honestly, I just, I sold my business because Joe, I couldn't do, I just was done. I had enough money. I had everything I wanted, but I just couldn't do it anymore.”

“It was a two-door garage that had been converted into a pizza joint that had failed, and I rented it, and it was at Eastern Illinois University, and I had a couple cousins and a brother that was going, that were two cousins there, brother was going there, and …”

“We paid the managers a base pay of like, 36 to 42 grand base pay salary, depending on where they were, and we gave them 25% of the profit of the store, so the managers made a lot of money, and they made 80 to 120,000 bucks a year”

“All my employees quit to like a month after we opened, all my employees quit. And I had the energy and the big energy where I was able to run the store from open to close from eight in the morning to two in the morning.”