Zoup!

Zoup! features hundreds of award-winning soup recipes with 12 rotating daily varieties, including gluten-free, low-fat, vegetarian, dairy-free, low-points and spicy options.  Zoup! strives to offer authentic, hand-crafted soups that are as good – and as “feel-good” – as the homemade soups our mothers and grandmothers used to cook up.

Franchisees Benefit from a Strong Brand in a Fast-Growing Segment

With the same “Everything Matters” philosophy that ensures quality, satisfaction and convenience for our customers, Zoup! has created the infrastructure, systems and support programs that give franchisees the tools they need to build their own successful businesses.

In addition to the opportunity to own a one-of-a-kind, exciting business that has a proven record of success, Zoup! franchisees enjoy the following benefits:

• Strong niche positioning consistent with consumer preferences.
• Low cost of entry relative to other food franchise concepts.
• Single units and, for qualified candidates, multiple units/semi-absentee operation gives candidates greater financial flexibility and security.
• Simplified menu items require little prep and allow for a “front of house” focus.
• Availability of great territories.
• Proprietary web-based POS (Point of Sale) system.
• Z!Net business management system tracks and drives franchisees’ productivity and profitability. 
• Fast-Casual segment is the fastest growing in the restaurant industry.

Zoup! is…healthy, nutritious and fresh fare that is unlike anything else available – made without any MSG or additives and served in a sparkling-clean setting.

Zoup! is…comfort, satisfaction and convenience. It’s a healthy, popularly-priced meal, and an experience they come back for again and again.

Zoup! is…the most varieties of the best-tasting soups ever made -- all created using a painstaking trial and error process that included numerous trial batches, execution of hundreds of taste tests and completion of formal evaluations.

Zoup! is…a dining experience that features 12 always-rotating soup varieties each day, including at least one gluten-free, low-fat, vegetarian, dairy-free and spicy recipe. It’s also...made-to-order Good Greens! salads; grilled Meltz! Panini sandwiches; value-priced TryTwo! combos; and build-your-own salad and panini offerings.

We’re interested in teaming up with exceptional people who have a high degree of personal integrity, want to offer excellent customer service, a strong desire to succeed in running their own business, and have some experience managing people. Franchisees also must be detail-oriented and have a passion for the Zoup! philosophy and products.

In addition to individual franchisees, we’re looking for seasoned business people (or entities) with the skills and financial backing needed to open multiple locations and develop key geographic territories. Here are a few examples of the types of business models we could offer:

• Single-Unit Franchise Agreement in which a franchisee purchases the right to develop one store in a limited, exclusive area, without any obligation to develop additional units.
• Multi-Unit Franchise Agreement, which is also known as an Area Development Agreement (ADA). With this arrangement, a franchisor agrees to “develop a market” and receives the right to develop multiple units in a broad, exclusive area within a specified timeframe.

Financial Qualifications
All applicants must meet our minimum financial qualifications and be in a position to properly capitalize the franchise investment, including working capital and personal living expenses during the start-up period.