Kyle Noonan and Josh Sepkowitz were college roommates before founding Mutts Canina Cantina in 2012, where customers can sip a Barkarita and let their pups off the leash to run around in the attached doggy park.
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Don’t sign the lease or buy a site until you’ve done your due diligence, say execs from Lightbridge Academy, Mutts Canine Cantina and Fransmart.
Editor Laura Michaels asks the tough questions—What superhero power would you most like to have? What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten?—to show a side of franchising execs you don’t normally see.
One of Mutts Canine Cantina's members poses for a photo atop a tree stump after playtime.
Imagine yourself sitting outside in a beer garden on a sunny day. Puppies are running around and you're sipping a Barkarita during Yappy Hour, chatting with some friends. A few Bark Rangers are even patrolling the area, filling up water bowls and cleaning up after your dog.
Brothers Mike, left, and Jeff Dudan.
Many franchise founders who've just sold their business like to take some time off before jumping into another concept, but for Jeff Dudan, fitness brand RockBox proved too enticing to wait. “I sold AdvantaClean on January 1 and quickly invested in RockBox,” said Dudan, the founder and CEO of restoration services company AdvantaClean, which was acquired by Home Franchise Concepts in January 2019.
