7-Eleven franchise owners are invited to share their complaints, frustrations and advice with prospective franchise owners below.
UnhappyFranchisee.com believes that no franchise system is perfect, and that it benefits everyone when new franchisees sign on with realistic expectations and advance knowledge of the challenges and frustrations they may face.
7-Eleven franchise website boasts that it provides support by sending a business consultant to each store twice per week:
In order for 7-Eleven® to be successful, you have to be successful. That’s why we provide a personal Business Consultant to help you with all the challenges involved with running your own business.
We provide personal support to help you succeed
What are Business Consultants?
A Business Consultant is a 7-Eleven employee assigned to your store and who visits your store twice a week.
Here are just a few of the things your Business Consultant can do for you:
- Assist in the development of budgets and business plans for your store
- Provide advice, coaching and assistance on how to improve the business
- Assist with the analysis of your store’s sales data
- Provide continual training and guidance on our ever-improving system
- Promote efficiency to help maximize your store’s profitability
7-Eleven named the #1 franchise in Entrepreneur magazine’s 2011 Franchise 500. (See the UnhappyFranchisee.com discussion here: Top 100 Franchise Opportunities 2011: Behind The Hype) and has now been named the #3 franchise in Entrepreneur magazine’s 2012 Franchise 500 as well.
Are the accolades well-deserved?
Does 7-Eleven provide the training, support, marketing and systems it promises?
Is 7-Eleven genuinely dedicated to the success of its franchise owners?
Please share a comment, opinion or insight below.
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I first started with 7 Eleven as a corporate employee, supporting franchise and corporate stores. At that time the everything seemed fine to me. I must have been blind, and deaf.
I always heard franchisees complain about SEI. Saying they stole money from franchisees, they were paying more for product and the list goes on. Then I became a fz. Boy were they not kiding. SEI is a big scam. They take 50% of your gross profit dollars. Yes you do not pay rent, you do not pay electricity, heat and ac. But boy you loose your life! Believe me I did.
If you want to work 7 days a week 24 hours a day, 365 days a week then by all means join SEI.. BE MY GUEST!
Do not get me wrong you can make decent money, but after you do the math, you are making less then $12 a hour. Oh you want overtime LOL, Oh you want a vacation LOL, Oh you want to spend time with your family LOL, Oh you are sick LOL. And the list goes on and on.....
If you are truly considering a SEI franchise, just look at the franchise agreement it is over 300 pages long. Every thing is covered you can not beat them. They will fight you every step of the way. Just be careful. I am trying to help you!
I am petitioning the IFA (International Franchise Association) to hold their franchisor members responsible for acts of fraud, threatening, stealing,lying and creating false documents to terminate their franchisees from their agreements.
Although our franchises may be different most are members of the IFA and the IFA is stealing our rights to due process by helping these franchisors word their contracts in a way that when we sign up to start also forfeits our rights to due process should THEY commit CRIMINAL acts against our franchise.
Please go to the link below and sign my petition. Then download it and post it to your web site so others will know and can sign as well.
http://www.change.org/petitions/veterans-deserve-success-not-matco-tools-franchise-failure?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=friends_wall
Thank You!
Todd A. Peterson
I truley believe franchising is the biggest scam going. Maybe Bernie Madoff came up with this idea a long time ago? It sounds alot like a sceme he would pull off too.
I am in the final stages of becoming a 7-Eleven franchisee and would love to hear more opinions on this business. The comments so far are minimal, and I consider that a good things considering 7-Eleven's size!
Any advice on the franchise...good..bad...or indifferent?
Please do not consider 7-11 for your future. No life, once you became a franchisee.
You work for them is another big 24 hours headache. Also they control you by all means, for an example you can not argure with their accounting system. If you call them you will be waiting for 10 to 12 min and leave a message. They will get back to you on their own time like week or may be longer with no solution. We work for them 24/7 and their office timings are mon to fri 8 to 4 central time.
No benefits, No holidays, No life but just headache. Not worth it....
Our money and their system. Result $10/- an hour. Do not even think about this franchise.
You will be your own boss. Sorry, you will have bosees...not just 9 to 5 but 24 hours....hope you understand what i am trying to say....
owning a 7-11 franchise is nothing but headaches and hard work 24-7. My husband and I have had one for about ten years now. Your employees are constantly stealing from you. You can't trust anyone. Their cameras in the stores are a joke. They've taken away our gas profits and just keep chipping away at you. We've had tremendous employee theft. You have to count everything and watch your back constantly. It's just not worth it . My husband is 61 and can't take it anymore. Yes and you can forget about vacations, We're on the verge of selling-GOOD RIDDANCE!
i m going to 7 eleven millersville m.d that owner have so much rodli and he have bad attiude.his name is malik.every customer upset to malik
Just wondered if i can work at at corporate 7-eleven and a franchise 7-eleven? I work in a corporate store 5 days a week but have been offered a job at a franchise store on my days off.