How to Open a Healthy Food Business with Rush Bowls

Join Vetted Biz’s Co-founder, Patrick Findaro and accomplished franchise executive, Philip Jacobs (VP Development) as they review the Rush Bowls franchise and the healthy food industry in light of the pandemic.
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Patrick: Hi, everyone. You have Patrick Findaro here, co-founder at Vetted Biz as well managing partner at Visa Franchise.
Today, I have a very special guest, Philip Jacobs, the VP of Franchise Development at Rush Bowls. He started with Rush Bowls when they only had one corporate location. They waited about 10 years to start franchising the concept and that’s when Philip Jacobs joined in as well as with the other co-founder of the brand. He joined when there was one location in Colorado, Boulder, and now they’re up to 35 locations open and they have a hundred more in development. So really excited to have Philip on.
Again, this is Patrick Findaro, co-founder at Vetted Biz. We’re an online platform to help you find, vet and finance your next franchise or business for sale.
Rush Bowls is riding the wave of healthy eating in the U.S.
I was talking to Philip a little earlier. Now, you know, we’ve both learned a lot. He’s been in the franchise space for over 25 years now. He tried to start a few different concepts himself and he never got traction, got off the ground, and he went back into franchising, which was a sure bet for himself as well as the clients and future franchisees that he’s working with now.
So, Rush Bowls is definitely riding the wave for healthy food in the U.S. People are a lot more concerned with what they’re eating, obviously, how they look, but also what they eat, how it makes them feel, longevity, and really taking in natural products as much as possible.
They’re also riding some waves in terms of small office or home office where their best locations have always traditionally been in residential communities, suburbs, upper middle-class-income neighborhoods, not at office parks. So it’s not like some other quick-service restaurants where they focus a lot on the office worker. It’s never been the model for Rush Bowls that was founded, what now, about 15 years ago. So they’ve always been in neighborhoods where it’s more residential and less on the commercial side and catering to office workers in particular.
Again, so, very excited to have Philip Jacobs on. We were chatting earlier. He played lacrosse at Ohio State, I played lacrosse as well at Colby College, definitely, a better program than myself and I’m sure a much better lacrosse player. And I’m sure a lot of what he learned on the lacrosse field and playing at the Division I sports team at Ohio State, he’s been able to apply in the business world and with his acumen, especially on the development side for many leading franchises.
He’s been out in California for many years now and has worked with some of the largest franchise brands, Mailbox, etc., what is now The UPS Store. He joined when they had about a hundred locations. And now, the rest is history. They’re well over 3,000.
So he’s gained a lot of experience at some of the largest franchisors and he’s growing Rush Bowls to become the go-to option for people that want healthy fast food on the go as well as other products, you know, whether it’s smoothies, the different bowls that they have. They have all different types of refreshments and meal alternatives for what is generally middle income, upper middle-income Americans.
So we’re very excited to have Philip on. Feel free to check out the Rush Bowls profile on vettedbiz.com. We have over 50 different metrics on Rush Bowls and you can see how it compares to their industry peers. I’ll ask Philip a little bit about the competitors in the space later on today.
I’m going to add Philip on. But first, before I turn it over to Philip, I’d like to just have us play and set the stage and play a short two-minute video on Rush Bowls. So if you don’t mind, turning away your phones and focusing on this video and focusing on our talk, I promise we’ll keep it quick. And if you like this video, please subscribe to vettedbiz.com and visit the Rush Bowls’ listing, as well as you can schedule a call with Phillip Jacobs, the VP of Franchise Development, following this call to see if Rush Bowls might be of interest to you.
So I’m going to add Philip on and we’ll start with the video. Philip, if you don’t mind playing the video and then I’ll turn it over to you.
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