Breakfast – it’s the meal that starts the day, brings families together, and creates traditions around the table. For entrepreneurs looking to enter the restaurant industry, a breakfast/ brunch franchise offers the chance to build a business of their own and experience the rewards of business ownership that offers the best work life balance. With daytime hours, streamlined operations, prime selection of staff, and the opportunity to become part of a local community, breakfast can be a smart, and seriously rewarding, way to build a business.
1. Daytime Hours = A Better Work-Life Balance
Who says owning a restaurant means living at the restaurant? One of the biggest perks of a brunch concept is the operating hours. With no late-night operations, owners and their entire staff can enjoy life outside of work. That means you can build a business without giving up every evening, outing with friends, or family dinner. You get the excitement of restaurant ownership while still having time to enjoy the life you’re working so hard to build.
2. Simple Operations Make Ownership Easier
Although restaurant operations aren’t rocket science, they can get complicated. Focusing only on daytime operations means you aren’t constantly shifting gears throughout the day. There’s no switching the line over for dinner, no different evening menu to manage, and fewer moving parts and team members to juggle. A brunch restaurant has a streamlined model designed for efficiency, including one manager per location and thoughtful food utilization to help keep operations running smoothly and maximize food effectiveness. The result? A business model designed to make the day-to-day ownership easier, allowing you to spend more time focused on growing your business.
3. Better Hours Can Help Build an Amazing Team
Great restaurants start with great teams. Daytime operating hours can make a breakfast reastaurant an appealing place to work for people who value having their evenings free. This often attracts team members looking for a better work-life balance, creating a workplace where people enjoy showing up. And when your team is happy, supported, and energized, your guests notice. From the person greeting guests at the door to the team member making the perfect stack of pancakes, everyone plays a role in creating an excellent experience.
4. Ownership Means Becoming Part of the Community
Breakfast has a way of bringing people together. It’s where families gather after a Saturday morning game, friends meet for coffee, neighbors become regulars, and church group gather. As a breakfast and brunch restaurant owner, you have the opportunity to build more than a restaurant. You can build a place where people feel they belong. Getting to know your regular guests, welcoming familiar faces, and creating an experience that keeps people coming back can turn your restaurant into a true neighborhood favorite.
5. Why Choose Scramblers for Your Ownership Journey?
So, why Scramblers? Because we’re not just handing you a franchise and wishing you luck. For 20 years, we’ve been teaching business owners how to successfully run a brunch restaurant. Our franchisees come from all different backgrounds — corporate careers, banking, construction, hotel ownership, other restaurant concepts, and more. They didn’t all come to Scramblers as restaurant experts, but with the right training, support, and systems, they’ve become true owners.
1. 20 Years of Teaching Owners How to Run a Brunch Restaurant
You don’t need to come from the restaurant industry to become a successful Scramblers owner. For 20 years, we’ve built the training, systems, and resources to help people from all different professional backgrounds learn how to operate and grow a brunch restaurant. We’ve taken people with experience in banking, construction, hospitality, corporate America, other restaurant brands, and more and helped them become confident restaurant owners.
2. Ongoing Support
We know ownership doesn’t stop once your doors open — that’s when the real journey begins. That’s why our support continues long after opening day. From operations and marketing to staffing, training, technology, and day-to-day questions, our team is here to help you navigate the challenges that come with running a business. You’re never expected to figure it all out on your own.
3. We Do It Alongside Our Franchisees
One of the biggest advantages of Scramblers is that we operate alongside you. We currently have 16 corporate locations that we operate day-to-day, which means we’re in the restaurants experiencing the same challenges, testing the same ideas, and finding what works.
Before we roll out a new initiative, system, promotion, or operational change to our franchisees, we want to test it in our own restaurants first. We believe in putting our own money, teams, and restaurants behind the ideas we ask our franchisees to implement. That allows us to learn, adjust, and bring our franchisees solutions that have been tested in the real world — not just ideas that look good on paper. At Scramblers, you’re not buying a business model we’ve stepped away from. You’re joining a brand that is still in the restaurants, still learning, and still growing right alongside you.
Kelly Christian
Director of Franchising