Drive-Thru Life by The Galardi Family

Author:The Galardi Family
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Galardi Group, Inc.
Published: 2018-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

The sale of a public offering involved months of legal and financial preparations, but the impact of what it could mean for the Der Wienerschnitzel brand had everyone in the company excited. On the home front, with the prospect of greater financial stability and a sizeable bank account, John indulged Myrna and his daughters—Teresa was now nine and Karen was seven—in what was quickly becoming their passion: raising and riding show horses. It was an expensive hobby that took up many hours when John was away—hours that sometimes stretched into days and weeks as he traveled to keep tabs on his growing business. It was getting harder and harder for John to spend quality time with his family. On the rare occasions he could take time off from the grinding demands of work, John proudly watched his beautiful young girls ride competitively and praised them highly for their skill and athleticism. His love and approval were all they craved, and they looked forward to every minute they could spend together as a family, every dinner he shared with them, and the little surprise gifts he brought each of them from the travels that increasingly kept him away from their beautiful hilltop home in Rolling Hills.

As Der Wienerschnitzel continued to expand, with close to two hundred stores, John could no longer maintain the strict control he exercised when they were a mom-and-pop organization. Some franchisees didn’t have the managerial skills to make their stands profitable, no matter how much help they were receiving from the parent company by way of marketing, personnel training, and cost controls. John was forced once again to make the tough decision to close down some locations, just as he’d done in previous years when he had to shutter some of the stores owned by early investor friends of Bob Trujillo’s. John knew that survival of the fittest was par for the course in big franchises; he’d seen Glen Bell close down stores that weren’t performing up to company standards. These were tough decisions but done for the greater good of the company. John did his best to pay the franchisees back their initial investment, but inevitably some franchisees whose entire life savings were tied up in the business suffered severe financial losses. Conversely, there were stores like Ron Bryant’s in Arizona and Esther Beard’s in San Pedro and Hemet that were doing really great business.

Teresa on her horse in full riding regalia.

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