Jasper’s is the UK’s dedicated professional caterer. We have a number of branches across the UK, with around 15 years experience in providing the highest quality hospitality services and buffet food for office catering, business lunches and corporate events, whether these are regular meetings, training sessions, networking lunches or one off special occasions.

Food is one of life’s necessities and one thing no one can be without. This is what makes catering franchises so successful. At Jasper’s, we spend huge amounts of time and money creating the perfect catering franchise model for you. A model that is easy to use, quickly learned and gives you, as a franchise owner, access to the very profitable market place that is catering.

Alongside the franchise fee, you will also need £62,417 (plus VAT) for the complete fit-out of your production unit including ovens, walk-in fridges, freezers and all other equipment. This will also cover all the software and hardware needed to run your new food business, including; web based CCTV, VOIP telephone system, a projector (essential for use in your production room) computers and printers.

In addition, every business needs an adequate amount of working capital to get if off the ground. We recommend you have at least £25,000 of working capital (you might need more depending on your own needs) for items such as stock and supplies, utilities, wages, fuel and customer debtor days.

In addition to the one-off costs, as with all franchises, we require an ongoing Management Service Fee (MSF). With Jasper’s though you don’t pay any MSF for the first six months. After six months, the MSF is 10% of your turnover of up to £5,000 a week which is payable to us on a monthly basis. This percentage will reduce on turnover above £5,000 a week and further more after you reach £10,000k a week, as we believe you should be rewarded not penalised for growing your business. The Management Service Fee covers the costs of our monthly support activities, including:

• Ongoing development and updating of Jasper’s systems
• Continuous research into new products and suppliers
• Regular reviews of your business’s performance to help your continual growth
• On-site support from our team
• Support in converting leads into clients eg tendering for contracts
• Development of your local sales and marketing strategies
• Lead generation through head office sales and marketing activity
• Training
• Continuous development of the Jasper’s brand, website and marketing material
• We have spent years working on our business model and systems. Without the monthly management fee we would not be able to keep our support structure in place for the benefit of all our franchisees.
• You will need to invest your time too. If you can’t dedicate yourself exclusively to your franchise you will struggle. Starting and growing a business takes focus, effort, energy, commitment and time above and beyond anything you will ever have experienced.

Of course! Once you have signed your franchise agreement, you will embark upon a rigorous 12 week training schedule to cover every area of your business. During this period you will spend time with the franchise support team and work in a live Jasper’s unit to learn first-hand how the magic happens! You will also receive comprehensive business manuals on Sales, Operations, Production, Human Resources and how to use the Jasper’s award-winning Business Management system.
Following the launch of your Jasper’s business, we will work with you to ensure it gets off the ground in the smoothest and most profitable way possible. This includes working with you until you reach a £3k per week turnover (we aim for week 7 of trading) and also identifying £1,000,000 worth of potential business for you to win in year one alone.

We know how to get customers and keep them, and will share with you our proven techniques to achieve this. In the first 12 months of your business operating, we guarantee to guide and support you in your business growth. All you need to do is follow the systems and processes with the right attitude at the right rate.

What’s more,  you will benefit from our ongoing support, including: new product development and menus, customer offers, brochures and other marketing materials, the Jasper’s website, system development and more.

We are only successful if you are successful, we want you to be as big and as profitable as possible.

If you have read the above and feel you are willing to find out more about the Jasper’s Corporate Catering Franchise Opportunity, we urge you to fill out the enquiry form below or give us a call on 0121 285 1097.

We will be in touch with a franchise prospectus, which will provide further information about the Jasper’s franchise. We’ll have a chat, find out more about you and answer any initial questions you may have. If you’re interested and we think we may be right for each other, we’ll ask you to complete a profile document.

Chris Carr – Jasper’s Coventry

“I started out as a sandwich maker for Jasper’s, working in production doing 16 hours a week. I thought I was in a job that would tide me over until the next opportunity came along…not realising that this was an opportunity to create my future.

I ended up investing into Jasper’s and becoming Co-Director of the company. My business partner and I generated great leads and brought in some amazing customers. Business was booming and there was a real buzz about the place.

These days my partner Charlotte and I run Jasper’s Coventry together. It enables us to enjoy family life and earn a very healthy living. Don’t get me wrong, it has been very hard work getting here, but to be able to take most Fridays off as a family is amazing. I have big plans for the business – it has always been my ambition to open a second Jasper’s in another territory. After succeeding with the first franchise I have no doubts about investing again into this well-structured franchise.”

Nick Blake – Jasper’s Warrington

“After spending fifteen happy years managing bars and restaurants for a number of big pub companies, I suddenly realised I no longer loved the job I’d been doing most of my adult life.

I no longer felt happy passing on the latest cost-cutting, labour-slashing, profit-protecting guidelines from a board of investors. My wife and I wanted to do something for ourselves; prove that we could run a business that was about exceptional growth, great customer service, fun promotional activity and in the meantime look after and incentivise our workforce in a way we felt we no longer could as retail managers.

Three and half years later, Jasper’s has enabled me to use the skills I had honed from years of retail catering and turn them to our advantage, helping us grow our business into something fantastic, whilst discovering skills I never knew I had, marketing being one of them.

By following Jasper’s clearly defined conversion process, we are enjoying our greatest year yet and are experiencing incredible year on year sales increases. After two years of really hard work, going out, gaining leads and engaging with local businesses so that we could convert them to customers, I now find the challenge is keeping up with the organically generated growth created by word of mouth, reputation and just being out and about in the community.”

Paula Hancock – Jasper’s North Nottingham

“Andy and I had wanted to run our own business together for a while; the thought of being our own boss and building something up appealed to us and was something we’d been dreaming about. 

We’d been looking at doing something like a bed and breakfast but the more we looked into it the more we realized our family life would suffer due to evening and weekend working.  Our son was four when we started looking seriously at different options and we didn’t want him growing up without seeing his mum and dad.

Andy found Jasper’s after seeing an article about the Newcastle branch of Jasper’s winning an award.  We’d not really thought about joining a franchise network until then but I’d always worked for large businesses and enjoyed having lots of people around, so the idea of working as part of a network of like-minded people really appealed to me.  Andy trained as a chef in his early years and is a fantastic cook, he’s also had his own successful driving school and felt confident about running a business, so it seemed a good fit for both of us.

We’ve built up a cracking team at Jasper’s who genuinely care about creating good food for our customers.  We’re coming up to five years in business this summer and we’ve got customers now who have been with us from the beginning.  Over this time, I’ve got to know some wonderful people who’ve gone from being customers to friends.

The challenge but also the reward of owning your own business is knowing that it’s down to you to make the difference.  That’s really empowering because it means if you want to make more, you need to do more stuff! We want to keep growing our business as there is so much opportunity out there.”