need help/ buying and owning own bread route (payments, Canada, $20,000)

[Hojjie]

I live in Canada, and am a franchisee of Canada bread. We were just bought out by Bimbo. Any thoughts as to what yo expect from them as owners? Are they fair with their distributors? Thank you.

[chris vito]

I know this is a little off topic, but I am considering buying a tastykake route or a mission route. Any insight into these type of routes would be great.

[Steve Bagu]

As a former Canuck from Ontario to the US and now in (Rosarito Mx)....just bought a loaf of Bimbo bread yesterday and thought it was just a local Mexican bakery....we live and learn...don't we.

[oreo1981]

Originally Posted by chris vito

I know this is a little off topic, but I am considering buying a tastykake route or a mission route. Any insight into these type of routes would be great.

Late reply..

Erm, here in NY, tastykake is a complete disaster. Stale city. Does not sell anywhere. I had a tasty cake vendor give me 4 big boxes FULL of tasty cake stales every single week for me, for a month straight, to give out to others because he was getting so many. I see boxes and boxes of this stuff in the back room in every single supermarket I deliver to, even the busy stores.

Little Debbie cake route? Yeah, Id definately go check that one out. They do monster sales in the stores I deliver to at least. But Ive never seen those routes for sale online..


As for mission tortilla, I'd look into it. Here in ny, they have space in walmart stores(at least the ones I deliver to), Id look into it to see if this brand is in most of the major local supermarkets and other chain stores like Target, etc. If it is a straight up cash route with no chain supermarkets, meh..no..unless the route is doing 8-9k a week in sales, minimum, then maybe. But I am biased, I hate straight up cash routes with no big supermarkets to anchor it.

All I know about mission is, a few years back here in NY, those routes were for sale as "startup routes", you could buy one for 5k. About a year ago, I looked on craigslist and other sites, there were 8 or so in the NY area for sale at the same time for over 100k, people were cashing out.

[Boomer26]

Oreo1981,

I'm in the process of talking to flower foods to purchase a wonder bread route... As we speak they are establishing these route so they can sell to the employee working them first an then to outside investors if they are still available....few questions... Is it truly wise to work for them first in a route to prove you can own it? They are telling me they are selling 10 to 1... Is that information correct and accurate?

I have been in a few supermarkets lately to see how wonder bread/tastey cake stacks up against everyone else and they are getting over powered by bimbo brands... Now I know that is a small sample size but is there anything to worry about regarding this?

Also anything else to know or be concerned regarding wonder bread routes?

[cfischer]

Boomer,

Any idea when the Flowers routes for wonderbread will start shipping? In particular to Wal-Mart?

Originally Posted by Boomer26

Oreo1981,

I'm in the process of talking to flower foods to purchase a wonder bread route... As we speak they are establishing these route so they can sell to the employee working them first an then to outside investors if they are still available....few questions... Is it truly wise to work for them first in a route to prove you can own it? They are telling me they are selling 10 to 1... Is that information correct and accurate?

I have been in a few supermarkets lately to see how wonder bread/tastey cake stacks up against everyone else and they are getting over powered by bimbo brands... Now I know that is a small sample size but is there anything to worry about regarding this?

Also anything else to know or be concerned regarding wonder bread routes?

[Rideev]

What do you guys suggest for a route vehicle? A truck? Or a pickup and a trailer?

[bruceox1962]

That is a good idea and to think I was thinking about getting a newspaper route. I think I will think about bread.

[mh2365]

In KY I have owned a Flowers route, Snyder's Route and an Aunt Millie's route ... I am going back to Flowers now because of stability ... Aunt Millie's is a good company to own a route with but they are regional and they are completely reliant on Meijer ... if Meijer goes down you are out ...

All of these companies have their issues but Flowers does more for their IDO's than most companies I have been with ... Stay away from Snyder's, they are a complete scam ....

You won't get rich running a bread route but it is stable and you can pretty much count on the settlement check

When I mention stability, Flowers and Bimbo are already the two largest bread companies and they are both still growing ...

From what I am hearing Butternut and Wonder bread will be in Walmart's either in the next set or the one after (so by the end of the year) ....

Bread routes are not for everyone ... you can pretty much count on 4-5 12 hour days each week and unless you pay someone no days off ... your days off are pull-up days which are about 6 hours .... Flowers will work Sunday's for you so they do give you a day off, I always pay a pull-up person to handle Wednesday's for me ... the split days off are a godsend .... Flowers will also run a vacation week for you for $50 .... by comparison Aunt Millie's charges you $250 a day to run your route for you

[benalexe]

Hi I am thinking of purchasing a mission foods route or other route. Can someone please let me know if you have owned or own a mission route.whats the good, bad, and ugly. Please PM me if I can give you a call to discuss. Would love to get as much insight as possible.