What would we do if we won the lottery?

by sue@graythorn.com

What would we do if we won the lottery? (Let's assume $25 million, it's a nice number.)

First, we would make sure that we had a financial manager in place to invest those funds, ensuring our long-term stability and ability to support our core mission areas of public health and nutrition, education, ethical business practices, and the environment. We would continue with our initial goal of focusing first on public health and nutrition through the creation and expansion of our healthy fast food restaurant concept. We would expand through franchising since franchise ownership spreads the wealth.

We would take the following actions immediately:
- Hire a nutritionist to finalize the menu
- Hire a tech to finalize our systems design (we have cool stuff planned like SMStext ordering and online diet/nutrition tracking)
- Select our first location

Within the following six months we would:
- Have construction of the first location well underway
- Hire a full-time operations manager
- Hire central staff to develop franchisee operational documentation
- Begin scheduling franchise expo appearances for the following year

Within one year we would:
- Have our first location operating
- Begin tracking our benchmarks
- Begin to promote franchise opportunities

Then what? Work on the next Graythorn project, of course. Next stop: education.