QSR: NRD Capital Advises on Financing your Franchise

It takes money to make money, and in the franchise industry there are several options to finance your concept - but after the last recession, obtaining money to grow is still an uphill battle for some. In a recent issue of QSR Magazine, they explored the current financing climate.

“Ever since the last recession, it’s been a little bit of a tale of two cities in the sense that larger franchisees have gotten an easier time to borrow money,” Aziz Hashim, managing partner of NRD Capital, a private equity firm specializing in franchise businesses, told QSR. “And for smaller franchisees, a lot of banks have kind of given up on them, because there were a lot of losses.”

Hashim encourages smaller franchise concepts to employ a varied strategy to pull financing from sources such as friends, family, and angel investors.

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