Franchise
Run the eighth Notenbrücke
Seven branches, all in the Ruhr, all within forty minutes of Altendorf. We would rather grow slowly and close to home than franchise across the country, so we take on one or two partners a year.
The numbers, before the sales pitch
- €28,000
- Typical fit-out and first-year cost for a four-room branch
- €12,500
- One-off franchise fee, payable when the lease is signed
- 6%
- Of net monthly revenue, ongoing
- 14–20
- Months to break even at our existing branches
What you get · What we expect
Co-founder, handles franchise enquiries
What you get
- The method: lesson plans, group structure, the eight-week review, the session-note template.
- The parent dashboard and the booking system, hosted and maintained centrally.
- Two weeks of training at Altendorf, then a branch lead from an existing branch on site for your first month.
- The shopfront: colours, furniture spec, supplier list and the fit-out drawings.
- Recruitment support for your first four tutors, including the trial-lesson assessment we use.
- A protected catchment of at least four kilometres from the nearest Notenbrücke.
What we expect
- You run the branch yourself, on site, at least four afternoons a week. We do not sell absentee franchises.
- A teaching background, or a business partner who has one.
- €30,000 of your own capital, unborrowed, before financing anything else.
- The group cap of five, without exception. This is the one thing we will end an agreement over.
- A site in the Ruhr. We are not currently expanding beyond it.
Three things worth knowing first
- Two of our seven branches took longer than twenty months to break even. Sterkrade is still our smallest and is profitable, but only just.
- Tutoring is seasonal. December and June are strong, August is close to empty, and you have to have planned for that.
- Finding tutors is harder than finding students. Every branch lead spends more time on recruitment than on marketing.
How it goes
A conversation
One hour, no documents. What you want to run and where.
Two afternoons at Altendorf
You sit in on real sessions and talk to the branch lead without us in the room.
Numbers and a site
We build the catchment analysis with you and look at two or three units together.
Agreement and fit-out
Signature, then roughly fourteen weeks to opening day.
As things stand: 7 branches, 31 teaching rooms, since 2016.
Ask about a franchise
This goes to Markus Brelöer, who handles every enquiry personally. Expect a reply within three working days.