Tapioca Express vs Seattle's Best Coffee Franchise Comparison

Below is an in-depth analysis and side-by-side comparison of Tapioca Express vs Seattle's Best Coffee including start-up costs and fees, business experience requirements, training & support and financing options.

Start-Up Costs and Fees
 
Tapioca Express Franchise
Seattle's Best Coffee Franchise
Investment $200,000 - $420,000$267,200 - $444,000
Franchise Fee $15,000$30,000
Royalty Fee $0.055/cup5%-7%
Advertising Fee -1%
Year Founded 19991970
Year Franchised 20001994
Term Of Agreement --
Term Of Agreement --
Renewal Fee $3K for 2 years-


Business Experience Requirements
 
Tapioca Express Franchise
Seattle's Best Coffee Franchise
Experience
  • Industry experience
  • General business experience
  • Marketing skills
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    Financing Options
     
    Tapioca Express Franchise
    Seattle's Best Coffee Franchise
      In-House/3rd PartyIn-House/3rd Party
    Franchise Fees No/No-/-
    Start-up Costs No/No-/-
    Equipment No/No-/-
    Inventory No/No-/-
    Receivables No/No-/-
    Payroll No/No-/-

    Training & Support
     
    Tapioca Express Franchise
    Seattle's Best Coffee Franchise
    Training -Initial training is included with your start-up fees. With expert training, your team will confidently deliver the successful Seattle's Best Coffee experience every time. You will have the opportunity to train in our corporate cafes and we come to your soon-to-open cafe to initiate a three week training course prior to opening.
    Support Newsletter, Meetings, Grand opening, Internet, Field operations/evaluations, Purchasing cooperativesThe Seattle's Best Coffee comprehensive franchise program provides its franchisees with support from site selection approvals to store opening assistance, initial cafe training, ongoing consultation, employee training programs, marketing programs and materials, new products and more.
    Marketing Co-op advertising, Ad slicks, National media, Regional advertising-
    Operations

    Number of employees needed to run franchised unit: 5

    100% of current franchisees are owner/operators

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    Expansion Plans
     
    Tapioca Express Franchise
    Seattle's Best Coffee Franchise
    US Expansion --
    Canada Expansion No-
    International Expansion Yes-

    Company Overviews

    About Tapioca Express

    Wayne and Stephanie, passionate about their Taiwanese heritage, opened the first Tapioca Express store in the San Gabriel Valley in 1999 �" one of the very first boba chains in the United States. Since the beginning,
    Tapioca Express has harvested the finest ingredients from Taiwan and continually provides quality teas, boba, and snacks. However, we did not foresee that boba’s popularity would manifest into its own culture and become an everyday lifestyle. Today, Tapioca Express expands across California and into other states, including Washington, Texas, and Virginia. In our two decades of experience in brewing, we focus on nurturing and enriching communities with the finest teas, coffee, and boba.
    Tapioca beverage is a various combination of black or green tea, milk, juice, coffee, and small marbles of tapioca (a.k.a. "black pearl" or "boba", made from Tapioca starch, water, corn starch and natural flavors.) It originated in Tai-Chung City (in Taiwan) around 1981, and soon spread across Asia. In the late 90s, it traveled to North America and has quickly become a raging trendy drink on both coasts. It is perceived as a relatively healthier beverage than soft drinks or coffee, and a lot more fun, too.Tapioca Express was the first in North America to offer a wide selection of high quality tapioca beverage adhering to a consistently high professional standard. Since opening its first store in the city of Alhambra (located in the Greater Los Angeles, California),
    Tapioca Express has become synonymous to quality and innovation.

    About Seattle's Best Coffee

    Seattle's Best Coffee is now franchising as part of the Starbucks Corporation portfolio, where will you find another franchise opportunity this irresistible? Seattle's Best Coffee is ready to bring our Uncommonly Smooth coffees, full day-part menu offerings and unparalleled guest experience to your area. For more than 40 years, Seattle's Best Coffee has played a pivotal role in delivering on America's demand for smooth tasting coffee. Our strong support makes our coffee franchise the one everyone wants to get their hands on. If you're ready to go, we are too. If you can answer "Yes" to all the questions below, then we want to talk with you. * I want to get in on the ground floor of an exciting business opportunity. * I have translatable business experience and/or ownership skills related to the operation of a coffee franchise. * I am able to operate multiple locations. * I have a net worth of at least $1 million and liquidity of $250,000 * I can secure my own financing. * I have knowledge and insight into the markets I will operate in. * I will be 100% committed to making my coffee franchise the best it can be. * I want to work hard, have fun and be an ambassador for the Seattle's Best Coffee brand in my local market. For free consultation Fill in form to the right.