{"id":1963,"date":"2025-02-17T06:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2025-02-21T06:14:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:14:45","slug":"day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/17\/day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We met everyone in the lobby and hopped on a big fancy bus to go to our first day of training.  There was quite a group of people, and a divers group at that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We talked to a couple from Chicago that owned 9 Dunkin&#8217; franchises, damn! We need to be there, but hey &#8211; we are looking at purchasing our first franchise, ya&#8217; gotta&#8217; start somewhere!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have a lot to learn, a lot to evaluate and study as this will be a significant investment and will set up our retirement with some funding to &#8216;live happily after&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plus it is something we can hand down to the kids, giving them a business to feed, keep alive and profit from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The facility at Unleashed Brands was pretty amazing, looked like a very fun place to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They fed us well and talked about everything we need to know to become a &#8216;franchisee&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were taking notes, meeting people, listening and learning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met everyone in the lobby and hopped on a big fancy bus to go to our first day of training. There was quite a group of people, and a divers group at that. We talked to a couple from Chicago that owned 9 Dunkin&#8217; franchises, damn! We need to be there, but hey &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}