The BBs Coffee & Muffins franchise is opening the doors to its very own Franchisee & Management Training Academy based at its Irish head office in Limerick. The custom-built facility will support new and existing franchisees to acquire the necessary operational and management skills, and brand consistency to operate successful and profitable BBs franchises.

The initial training course for new franchisees is a competency-based programme and each new franchisee will attend the Academy for two weeks and there is also the opportunity for existing franchisees to send managers to sit in on individual training modules. BBs also plans to run three-day intensive courses on topics such as staff recruitment and retention and financial management. We consider training to be of paramount importance and fundamental to the success of each business.

The introduction of the BBs Training Academy programme means that we now have a facility to bring together groups of new franchisees where we are able to deliver one message, more extensive training and thereby allow each franchisee to take away more information and knowledge about the company, our policies and procedures, David OConnor, Franchise Manager for Ireland. At BBs we provide our new franchisees with a considerable amount of training and operational and management tools as well as on-going support to ensure they are successful from the start and achieve and maintain maximum productivity and profits.

BBs is one of the fastest growing coffee bar franchises in Ireland and the tenth largest European coffee bar franchising chain.