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In a recent Q&amp;A with <a href="https://togosfranchise.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchise-times-togos-multi-unit-franchisee-plans-expansion-to-california-2717000" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Togo’s</a> multi-unit operator Letha Tran, the franchisee talks about her history with the brand and how she reached five locations with hard work and dedication.Tran first got the idea to own a Togo’s shop while she was a college student. “While I was in college, I saw a location and asked my mom to buy it for me, but she said I needed to finish college,” <a href="https://www.franchisetimes.com/franchise_news/no-plan-b-togo-s-franchisee-expands-in-california/article_d1b538ee-a1ef-11eb-83fd-7b5786ac693b.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchise-times-togos-multi-unit-franchisee-plans-expansion-to-california-2717000" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">said Tran</a>. “I was in front of their stores counting their customers and thinking, I bet they each spend about $10.”Tran said that she got the entrepreneurial and small business mindset from her mom, who owned a convenience store.“I remember my first job, I told my mom, ‘They keep telling me what to do.’ I just couldn’t see the rest of my life doing that and knew I had to do something else,” <a href="https://www.franchisetimes.com/franchise_news/no-plan-b-togo-s-franchisee-expands-in-california/article_d1b538ee-a1ef-11eb-83fd-7b5786ac693b.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchise-times-togos-multi-unit-franchisee-plans-expansion-to-california-2717000" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tran said</a>. “I cashed out basically everything I owned to open my first Togo’s and never looked back.”<a href="https://www.franchisetimes.com/franchise_news/no-plan-b-togo-s-franchisee-expands-in-california/article_d1b538ee-a1ef-11eb-83fd-7b5786ac693b.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchise-times-togos-multi-unit-franchisee-plans-expansion-to-california-2717000" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tran says</a> the pandemic presented challenges, but it also helped accentuate Togo’s to-go model — and ultimately helped her grow to her five locations, with plans to open No. 6 soon. As for franchisees looking to branch out from the corporate world?“Anything that is worth anything is hard work. People see me and think it’s easy — it’s not easy. It took a whole lot of work but it gets easier. I get a lot of people who say, I have some money, where should I put it. And I say no, this is not a business that you just invest in, I don’t think. I need to be in the stores, I need to be in the stores every day.”<a href="https://www.franchisetimes.com/franchise_news/no-plan-b-togo-s-franchisee-expands-in-california/article_d1b538ee-a1ef-11eb-83fd-7b5786ac693b.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchise-times-togos-multi-unit-franchisee-plans-expansion-to-california-2717000" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Read the full article here.</a>

Franchise Times: Togo’s Multi-Unit Franchisee Plans Expansion to California

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Franchise Times restaurant editor Nicholas Upton talks to Togo’s franchisee Letha Tran for the Multi-Unit Mindset column in the Franchise Times.

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