Devilzsidewalk wrote:JellosJigglin wrote:Hector_Reyes_8 wrote:Caron Butler's moves have become increasingly clever; buying 6 or so Burger King facilities just looks better and better.
If true then he made a very smart move. I've been looking into buying a BK. Them and Arby's both had higher quarterly growth than McDonald's. Their CEO is 34 years old and CFO only 28. Their young leadership is making smart changes. BK is on the rise.
you have a 1.5 million net-worth? impressive
Yes, but man it didn't come easy. It took a lot of personal sacrifice and family willing to help me. My parents let me live with them for most of my 20's so I could save up enough money for a business. When I finally got it I was wiped out financially and had that debt to pay off. I couldn't afford a manager so I worked a shift myself, sometimes double shifts if someone didn't show up or got sick.
It was tough man. That was my 20's, when my friends were meeting up after work for happy hour while I was standing behind a register. My friends would hop on planes for last second Vegas trips or road trips to wherever, going out and meeting girls, pick-up games at the park. I gave up all that and had no life at a time when everyone I knew was living it up. I questioned if having all that responsibility was the right move, but it paid off. I'm 34, have 6 businesses with 2 different franchises with managers running each one, plus a few real estate investments. Now looking to buy a 7th (possibly BK) and don't want to stop there. I'm hungry.
What Vin Baker is doing is impressive. Learning to run a business is really hard, but he's doing it while raising children. That's a whole 'nother level of responsibility that I don't have to worry about. But it's great that he gets to learn on someone else's dollar. Some people get their first business and are thrown into the deep end and have to learn to swim on their own. I hope he's able to stay clean and really take advantage of this opportunity, because a lot of people would kill to have that chance.
