Waffy's vs The Original Pancake House Franchise Comparison

Owning a Waffy's franchise puts you on the ground floor of an exciting new concept with broad appeal.

Waffy's has developed an easy to operate franchise model incorporating the best practices of franchise systems and procedures garnered from years of franchise experience that are capable of producing strong unit economics.Waffy's offers a large array of unique, artisanal Belgian waffle products that can be enjoyed at any time of the day. Waffy's uses only fresh wholesome ingredients and follows the best European baking techniques. Waffy's is an attractive concept because its business model is streamlined and simple to operate. Minimum or no food experience required. Most of the equipment is automated, reducing labor costs. Easy to use and highly robust POS system, helps control inventory, manage schedules and run financial reports.Waffy's offers you a choice of three flexible, affordable franchise models to accommodate your location and budgets: an in-line store, mall food court and kiosk. In addition, Waffy's also offers you the ability to extend your sales off-site via Catering and Mobile Food Cart.Waffy's offers a lower cost of entry compared to similar concepts, combined with strong unit economics, which allows a faster return on investment.

The Original Pancake House was founded in Portland, Oregon in 1953 by Les Highet and Erma Hueneke. Drawing upon their many years of experience in the culinary field, and their extensive working knowledge of authentic national and ethnic pancake recipes they were able to offer without compromise their unique and original menu which has gained national acclaim. The Original Pancake House is a second and third generation family business, which takes great pride in maintaining the high standards that make our food so outstanding. We now have over one hundred franchises from coast to coast, which have won local and national acclaim. Our recipes demand only the very finest of ingredients, such as 93 score butter, pure 36% whipping cream, fresh grade AA eggs, hard wheat unbleached flour, and our own recipe sourdough starter. Our batters and sauces are made fresh in each restaurant’s kitchen. Our signature items include the Apple Pancake, a single large pancake smothered with sautéed apples and cinnamon sugar baked to perfection, to create a deliciously rich cinnamon sugar glaze.

The total investment necessary to begin operation of a The Original Pancake House® restaurant franchise is $372,500 to $966,250. This includes $60,303 to $60,606 that must be paid to the franchisor or an affiliate.

If you sign an option agreement with the franchisor to develop additional The Original Pancake House® restaurants, the franchisor will not charge you an additional fee, but they may require you to sign at least two franchise agreements at the same time that you sign the option agreement, in which case, you will pay to the franchisor $60,000 as the initial franchise fee under each franchise agreement you sign at the time you sign the option agreement. The minimum number of franchise agreements you must sign to acquire rights under an option agreement will depend on the size of your market, but will not be less than two franchise agreements.