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Why Join The Erbert & Gerbert's Family
If you're ready to take your entrepreneurial spirit and passion for excellence to bold new heights, now's the time to become part of the Erbert & Gerbert's sandwich franchise family! Step into a franchise opportunity where great product meets smooth operations. Erbert & Gerbert's offers a truly unique and flavorful menu that keeps customers coming back, all supported by efficient, easy-to-run systems. You'll benefit from our robust marketing support that elevates our fun, adventurous brand, ensuring you're set up for success from day one.
Becoming a Franchisee:
- 100k liquid / $350k net worth
- Ambition and business success
- Community-connected
- Passionate about brand
- Excellent leadership
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Our Market
Advantage
Delivery: Self & 3rd Party
Our flexible business model allows each franchise to optimize its customer reach through delivery. You have the freedom to implement self-delivery, utilize third-party delivery platforms, or create a dynamic combination of both, ensuring maximum convenience for your community.
APP: Ordering + Rewards
To enhance the guest experience, we offer a user-friendly mobile app for seamless ordering. This platform also features a robust rewards program, giving our loyal customers added incentives and convenience with every purchase.
Catering
Expand your reach and revenue with our versatile catering program! From small office lunches to large gatherings, we offer a delicious spread of sandwiches, soups, mac and cheese, pickles, and chips to cater events of any size.
Proteins Power
Our menu boasts a wide array of delicious proteins to satisfy every craving. From our new, mouth-watering rotisserie-style chicken to classic favorites like ham, turkey, and roast beef, our diverse offerings keep guests coming back for more.
Signature Soups & Mac
What sets Erbert & Gerbert's apart is our unique offering of gourmet soups and mac & cheese, rarely found in other sandwich shops. Crafted with our special recipes, these craveable options make pairing a sandwich with a delicious soup or creamy mac a complete no-brainer for our guests.
Flexible Store Hours
Each location is empowered to tailor its operating hours, ensuring they best serve the unique needs and rhythms of their local community.
Traditional Restaurants
Our traditional restaurant business model offers versatile formats to suit various locations. These include inline, end-cap, and stand-alone buildings, with drive-thrus proving to be a particularly successful model for maximizing convenience and sales. We are actively expanding our presence in core markets such as Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and North Dakota, while also strategically pushing into surrounding states to grow the Erbert & Gerbert's footprint.
Non-Traditional Restaurants
Beyond our traditional locations, Erbert & Gerbert's thrives in a diverse array of non-traditional settings. These unique venues are hosted by partners like universities, healthcare facilities, airports, and various retail environments. These flexible locations and spaces offer a wonderful opportunity for continued growth and for sharing Erbert & Gerbert's delicious menu with an even wider audience.
Don't Just Take Our Word For It
Testimonials
Partnering with Erbert & Gerbert’s as a multi-store franchisee has been an incredibly rewarding experience. The support from the franchise team is exceptional—they’re responsive, forward-thinking, and genuinely invested in helping each location succeed. From streamlined operations and strong brand recognition to innovative marketing and menu development, Erbert & Gerbert’s makes it easy to focus on delivering great food and great service to our communities. It’s clear they care about their franchisees’ success, and that makes all the difference.
Mike Switzer
Multi-Unit Franchisee - Western WI
Erbert and Gerberts has created an intentional brand that focuses on the guest experience every single day. A brand that spends time each week concerning itself with how it can improve. This is where you start to find the excellence that holds up the foundation of each and everything thing Erbert and Gerbert’s does. Improving the E&G brand starts with the sandwiches and soups and making sure each bite provides the same delicious and nutritious experience you have come to expect when you visit an E&G store. The vibrant and welcoming stores you have come to appreciate. The friendly and well trained staff you have created relationships with. That’s the core of who E&G is.
Kiley Benson
Multi-Unit Franchisee - St. Cloud and Mpls
Training & Support
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Operations
Our focus is on delivering world-class products to our customers with a commitment to efficiency that maximizes your return on investment. Our success depends on world-class operators and their adherence to our proven systems and procedures. To achieve this, we emphasize attention to detail and mastering the basics, driven by a quality-over-quantity approach. We complement our outstanding sandwiches and soups with new innovations focused on what customers want and what we aim to sell.
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Training
Our industry-standard Synergy training takes place in our company-owned stores and lasts for three weeks. This training class has a narrow focus on our product and execution, ensuring you have the foundation needed to deliver our world-class product as efficiently as possible. The curriculum ensures new franchisees have all the tools necessary to execute all aspects within their stores. Our best-in-class on-site support takes over from there. Each store is assigned a Franchise Consultant who helps them reach higher levels of profitability as they grow with the brand, visiting no less than every eight weeks. The learning never stops, as our commitment to leadership by action ensures that owners have a dedicated support channel for assistance and expertise on any aspect related to their operations.
