Ready to buy a cash flow generating bread route?

Bread Route Evaluation Training

Thinking of buying a Bimbo Bakeries, Flowers Bakery, Mission Tortilla, Pepperidge Farm or Snyders-Lance route? These bakeries distribute some of the most desired brands in stores and restaurants.

They distribute products by paying contractors to put them on the shelves in stores. Those bakeries own many big brands like Sara Lee, Dave’s Killer Bread, Arnold Bread, Orowheat, Nature’s Own, and dozens more.

A “bread route” distributes those brands even though some products are cookies, bagels, desserts and more.

Brokers will tell you that bread routes are one of the best route businesses you could buy. Here’s why:

✅ Immediate income – generate revenue your first week 
✅ Proven – literally several thousands of contractors that have succeeded
✅ Historical cash flow – lower risk than most startups and new franchises with no financial history
✅ Financeable – easy in-house financing often available with a downpayment
✅ Lifestyle business – flexible hours depending on the deal
✅ High success rate – compared to many franchises
✅ Steady operations – protected territory with NO sales and NO marketing needed
✅ Stable industry – the demand for bread and groceries isn’t going anywhere
✅ 100% verifiable revenue – all revenue (even cash) can be validated
✅ Paid weekly – no accounts receivable headaches

Despite those awesome qualities, bread routes aren’t the right business for everyone. Also, not all bread routes are “good.” I’m here to help you determine if you’ll like owning a bread route and how to spot the good ones.

Unlike FedEx routes, bread routes are usually very simplistic. When you know exactly what to look for, there’s a easy method we use to analyze these businesses. We use effective strategies that sellers and brokers almost never share with buyers.

I know what sellers hide, how they do it, and how to uncover it.

It doesn’t take long for me to show you how to evaluate your deal specifically. Because of this, I often recommend that you don’t need any of the courses I currently offer. The courses will help with FedEx routes only. 

Instead an even better solution is that I can get you up to speed with a couple training calls. This is far less an investment in learning the methods to evaluate bread/chip routes. We will work together 1-on-1 to make sure you know how to know when sellers make exaggerated claims.

Most people don’t have a background in transportation before they buy a bread route. With a good work ethic and some business experience, many buyers can succeed in this business.

When you get a call with me, we can look over documentation that you have so far (or determine what docs you still need). We’ll cover several things: 

How to phrase certain highly valuable questions to ask the seller,
Why some info is VERY misleading (tax returns, verified store sales figures, 1099s, etc)
What to do exactly on AND before your ride along,
The precise questions to ask the terminal manager,
What documents to look for that are unique to bread routes,

This is all going to better help ensure that you find a route with realistic profit estimations. We’ll use methods to determine how many hours the route will take you to operate. Most importantly, we’ll reduce (not eliminate) your risks, so that you can find a route that you’ll love. Once we do that, THEN you’ll know what price you should offer that’s fair to you and the seller.

There are actually 3 highly critical pillars of due diligence for routes: 

1) Ease of Management – Making sure you understand the ACTUAL time required to successfully manage routes,

2) Net Income – Verify the income the RIGHT way (and no, 1099s and “store sales figures” is NOT the right way)

3) Sustainability – Determine if the current income will stay the same or drop after you take over.

Bread routes are a good fit for people looking for stable, cash flowing businesses to take over. But major problems show up in due diligence where many owners don’t have good financial records. Many times they exaggerate revenue (and under report expenses). 

It’s not that a route is “bad.” It’s that it’s not as good as they’re claiming.

Just because a seller inflated their income 50% and works 60 hours a week does NOT mean it’s a “bad” business. But we need to know what the route is ACTUALLY making and how long it takes to run the route. Only after that can we determine if we can reduce the workload, increase the profits, and if it’s still a viable deal.

Not to worry though. I can show you effective, fast, and easy to use strategies to figure out what’s really going on.

There’s 2 important things to know about my training:

1) There are no hidden upsells with any of the training that I do and don’t hold anything back, and

2) Once we go through a deal together, you can use those exact strategies and frameworks on other deals you look at. So if a deal falls through, you can easily evaluate the next one.

If you have already have documentation on a deal, we’ll go through it on the call. If you don’t have docs yet and need to know what to ask for, but still need assisstance, just book a call. Don’t worry about the “right” questions to ask me. I’ll show you from start to finish on whether a bread route is right for you, how to evaluate it, and get you moving forward with owning a bread route.