MAP AREA

You will receive an exclusive area, typically surrounding where you live from which you can run all of our services. 

Generally this is around 20,000-25,000 children age 0-14 (plus teens age 14-17).  

Bearing in mind it takes just 14 children to fill a class, that’s a HUGE area!  

We give you an area this large so you have plenty of opportunity for growth - IF that's what you want.  You might wish to run things alone, or you may want to employ class leaders too.  You can do both with an area this size!  

OUR SERVICES:

Within your area you have exclusive rights to run all our services or you can chose whichever ones you want to offer:

*Minis Classes (age 2-5)

*Juniors Classes (age 5-11)

*Academy Classes (age 11-17)

*Family Cook Along (online age 5-11)

*Parties

*Workshops

*Sessions at school

*Sessions within the community (eg. charities, organisations etc)

HUGE PROGRAMME OF SESSIONS TO OFFER CUSTOMERS

For each Cook Stars service above, we have a huge range of varied and different sessions/recipes:

*Just under 120 sessions/recipes for minis and Juniors classes

*60 different Academy classes and online Family Cook Along Classes

*33 different workshops

*6 parties plus online parties

CLASS PLANNING:

For every single session, you will not need to do class planning - we've done all that for you! 

You will receive:

*Recipe cards - a huge variety of different recipes.  Customers will cook something different every week.

*Tutorial videos - this show you exactly how to make each dish, and we have one for every recipe in our programme.

*Activity plans - structured art and crafts to keep Cook Stars entertained throughout the session.

*Shopping and equipment packing lists along with hints and tips - these ensure preparing for your sessions is very simple.

COOKERY EQUIPMENT

You will receive a HUGE amount of equipment so you have everything you will need to run your classes and parties, plus we provide many spares. 

The equipment includes EVERYTHING you will need to run all our services.  The list is massive, but to give you an idea it includes items such as portable ovens, ALL the class equipment and party equipment you will need, uniform, merchandise to sell to customers etc.  

We even go so far as to provide you with things like grass matting and artificial flowers to run our Teddy Bears Picnic party!   We like to think we've thought of everything!

MARKETING:

Marketing is really important to ensure your franchise is a success.  We provide a lot to you so you can market your franchise well.  You don't need to have done anything like this before, so don't worry....we teach you exactly what's needed to get those classes thriving!   

 This is a little summary, but please call if you'd like more detail: 

*Comprehensive training on how to market effectively and get customers.   

*Marketing ideas, images, wording, adverts etc for you to use.

*Personalised art work to advertise and market your sessions.

*Your own webpage on our central website (we manage this for you!) and you'll also have a personalised e mail address.

*Your own customer booking system which means customer bookings and class payments are done online.  This is an amazing tool and is very easy to manage. 

*Personalised art work to advertise and market your franchise.

*A stock of our lovely merchandise you can sell to customers (our starter packs, cookie bags etc). 

*Branded uniform and aprons.

TRAINING:

There is a lot to learn, but we have broken it down for our new starters so it is manageable!  

Running a Cook Stars franchise has 2 elements:

1. Running classes/parties/workshops/sessions and

2. Running the business side. 

We teach you both thoroughly through our very comprehensive training. 

You will be able to  learn a lot at your own pace and at home, through our e learning system which covers over 160 modules.  These modules cover everything you need to know....and a lot of stuff you probably don't know you need to know at this stage!  

None of our team have run a business before, but through our training and their own dedication and hard work they are now running successfully and loving it!

We also have in house training where you'll come along to us at head office and learn some of the more practical side of things. After that we'll help you set up your first classes and you'll be good to go!

BENEFITS OF BEING PART OF THE COOK STARS TEAM

• Loads of support - initial ‘hand holding’ to ensure success and long term support too.  Weekly one to one calls, as well as help whenever you need it of course!
• On-going support, advice and ‘how to’ guides offering practical advice and tips on running a successful profitable business
• Business planning help and support
• Bespoke business plans for your territory when you join – this includes a marketing plan, local area demographics, postcode analysis (and recommendations) and a list of all schools in your area
• Advise on regulatory requirements (such as DBS checks / FSA certification)
• Access to our wonderful franchisee support group where ideas, support and knowledge are shared.  Each week we provide helpful snippets of advice and are always on hand to help and support the team.