-mike: mike ference. -lemonis: how you doing, mike? -michael: my pleasure. lemonis: nice to meet you. i'm marcus. -mike: pleased to meet you. -andreas: come on in. -lemonis: you guys are married. -mike: we are. lemonis: so, you own the business together. kathleen: together. we're partners. mike: and then we're gonna concentrate hopefully more on franchises. -lemonis: legitimate franchises? -mike: legitimate franchises. they actually have a 10-year franchise agreement with us where they pay an up-front fee. lemonis: how much was that? mike: it's $10,000 per store. and then they pay an ongoing royalty fee, as well. lemonis: okay. franchising is an incredibly attractive business model because it allows you to get paid once you perfect a concept. my big fat greek gyro only gets about $10,000 when they sign up a new franchise. in success, that fee could grow much higher. better still, each of your franchisees pay the owner a royalty on a monthly basis. that could be anywhere between 4% and 12% of your monthly sales. mike: right now we're making about $60,000, $65