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Child Services, Events & Entertainment, Food & Beverage · Cooking Programs

Taste Buds Kitchen- Regulatory Benefit & Municipal Adaptability: Avoids typical restaurant rules and exempt from usual cooking place reulations. - Expert Leadership & Childcare Category: Team with extensive childcare and enrichment experience while being exempt from chiildcare rules. - Lower Infrastructure & Venue Style: No need for gas lines, vents or fire systems in the chic, mulit-age appealing locations.

Semi-AbsenteeAbsenteeVetFranE-2 VisaSBA Approved
Total Investment

$396K - $517K

Franchise Fee

$50K

Royalty

Greater of 8% Gross Revenue or $125 per Week

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Overview

About Taste Buds Kitchen

- Regulatory Benefit & Municipal Adaptability: Avoids typical restaurant rules and exempt from usual cooking place reulations. - Expert Leadership & Childcare Category: Team with extensive childcare and enrichment experience while being exempt from chiildcare rules. - Lower Infrastructure & Venue Style: No need for gas lines, vents or fire systems in the chic, mulit-age appealing locations.

Taste Buds Kitchen is a kids kitchen by day & an adult byob kitchen by night. Taste Buds Kitchen offers fun, hands-on, engaging, cooking classes, camps, parties and corporate events in incredibly stylish, upscale facilities for ages 2 to 99! The extensive support, streamlined and easy to follow path to success provided by the expert leadership team makes this an ideal, sought-after, emerging franchise. Taste Buds Kitchens are delighting guests through delicious culinary entertainment experiences while inspiring a love of the kitchen and creating cherished memories for all!

Who it fits

Ideal candidate

Culinary Background: Food experience is beneficial but not mandatoryStrong leadership, organizational capabilities, financial acumenPassion for community enrichment, commitment to a healthy and productive work culture, extroverted nature
The fine print

FDD facts

Initial franchise fee$50K
RoyaltyGreater of 8% Gross Revenue or $125 per Week
Total investment$396K - $517K
Liquid capital required$150K
Net worth requirement$500K
Year founded2007
Year began franchising2013
Business modelBoth
Owner-operator required (Year 1)No
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Footprint

Territory overview

AvailableNew Jersey, Nevada, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Texas, Alabama, Delaware, Illinois, North Carolina, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, District of Columbia, Louisiana, Missouri
UnavailableFlorida, Indiana, Michigan, California
LegendAvailableLimitedUnavailable
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Quick facts
Founded
2007
Franchising since
2013
Model
Both
Liquid capital
$150K min
Net worth
$500K min
Owner-op required?
No
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