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What Buying Small Is Like When Crises Happen

3 days into Monte Marcum's acquisition of an established franchise, key equipment breaks. Then the crises kept coming.

Topics in Monte’s interview:

Buying 2 existing & adjacent franchise businesses at once

How Filta’s customer pricing is structured

Why commercial kitchens love his business

Combining two businesses

Equipment starts breaking on day three

Monte’s series of fetal position moments

What exactly is hard about running a business

How one rockstar employee guided him through a season of crisis

The biggest risk of buying small

The importance of a support system

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