254: Franchise Restaurant Business with Lauren Clowdus

The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.

Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

From corporate job to launching their first small business, Lauren Clowdus shares the story of how she and her husband started a restaurant franchise business. Lauren explains how they selected the franchise, the challenges they have faced - including working with her spouse - and their plans for growth. She also shares the challenges they have experienced with hiring and retaining employees, and how they use a third-party HR company to help them.

Henry Lopez is a serial entrepreneur, small business coach, and the host of this episode of The How of Business show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business. (TheHowOfBusiness.com)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business.
0:13.5	And now, here is your host.
0:15.5	Welcome to this episode of The How of Business.
0:17.5	This is Henry Lopez.
0:18.8	And my guest today is Lauren Cloutis. Lauren, welcome to the
0:22.4	show. Thank you, Henry. Thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to this. This is the type of
0:27.3	guest that I always look forward to because Lauren, along with her husband, it's just Lauren with us
0:32.3	today though, is the stereotypical great example of an American business owner.
0:39.4	They own a small franchise restaurant business.
0:43.1	And so greatly looking forward to the conversation today.
0:45.8	We're going to chat about Laura's entrepreneurial journey,
0:48.7	how she got to this point of owning their first business.
0:52.4	And then she's going to share with us her insights, her experiences with starting and growing
0:57.1	a franchise business.
0:59.5	If you want to receive more information about the Hawa business, including links to the
1:04.0	show notes pages, just text the word biz, B-I-Z to 31996.
1:10.6	So I have a very short bio on Lauren to share with you, and then she's going to give us more
1:15.0	background on where she started career-wise and how she got to where she is today.
1:21.2	Lauren Cloutis, along with her husband, Brian, they're the owners of a franchise restaurant,
1:26.8	as I mentioned. It's located here in my
1:29.6	current hometown of Coppell, Texas, which is a suburb of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
1:35.9	They opened this first location in 2015, so they've been at it for several years now and
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