Telling nugget of information in this article about Stone Cold Creamery:

So far per store sales at its 12 international stores in the Pacific Rim are running at about $1 million annually, about three times higher than at U.S. stores.

(In the U.S., stores have two to three workers on a weeknight shifts and five to seven on weekend nights).

Pulling in $300,000-$400,000 in gross sales per store is below what most franchisees would consider a fair return on investment.

If labor costs are 30% of your overall costs, this infers that your costs are about 3.33 x $152,500 = $507,825

That seems extraordinarily high but its hard to be more accurate without more data.

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