Kitchen Tune-Up

About Kitchen Tune-Up

Kitchen Tune-Up appeals to entrepreneurs transitioning into business ownership from corporate backgrounds. The standout remodeling concept offers personalized service and incredible results. Everyone has a kitchen, and kitchens are the heart of the home. Our belief is that you don’t have to spend a fortune or be displaced from your home for weeks in order to improve your living space.

Not all kitchens need to be replaced in order to be transformed into a room that homeowners can be proud of. Kitchen Tune-Up offers multiple options to update kitchens including: 1 Day Tune-Up, cabinet painting, redooring, refacing and new cabinets.

Our locations get so many requests to do additional work in the home, so we have additional services including closet organization and garage cabinets. All our services can extend to other areas of the home including laundry rooms, home offices, bathrooms, family rooms, and much more. Our passion is helping customers create a space that they love to come home to, even beyond the kitchen.

Franchisees in the Kitchen Tune-Up system take advantage of the knowledge experience shared between owners – the domino effect of the expertise is invaluable. Fostering entrepreneurship with minimal overhead, our franchisees primarily manage their small employee base and consistently oversee effective sales and marketing programs.

Specializing in fast and affordable kitchen updates. We offer solutions for every budget and complete projects in 1-5 days.

Why Kitchen Tune-Up?

• Variety of products and services: we offer 5 ways to update your kitchen with the price ranging anywhere from $1,000 to $20,000 and beyond.
• Our Gross Profit Margin ranges from 42% - 72% with an average of 55% and the average ticket is $7,152 (as disclosed in Item 19 of our FDD).
• We offer flexibility to work out of your home or open a retail space. 70% of our owners are home-based.
• Recession resistant: Every home has a kitchen, and there is always a need to do improvements, especially with our cost effective solutions.
• Low initial investment: $94,973.50 - $129,077.50
• Support & training: our Home Office support is something we are most proud of. We are in constant communication with our owners and work hard to offer robust initial training, a mentoring program and ongoing training.
• We are a family owned business that has been in operation for 32 years

Ideal Candidate

• Process-driven
• Consumer-friendly
• Customer service oriented
• Detail-oriented
• Multi-tasker
• Likes to manage people
• Relationship builder
• Operations focus
• Goal-oriented
• Sales driven

History

In 1977 Dave & Cindy opened a cabinet store in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Dave had always felt like an entrepreneur and because of his desire to provide a bright future for his family, he decided that business ownership would give him the best possible chance to do that. His cabinet store was very successful and he grew the business, adding employees and building bigger showrooms as needed. In the mid-1980’s during an economic recession, there were very few homes being built and Dave knew it was critical to diversify his business so he could maintain his staffing and space.

He had recently gotten his car tuned up and he thought about how great the car was running - almost like it was new. He remembered how some of his clients had asked him how to keep their cabinets “looking like new” and he saw a connection. Could he “tune-up” a kitchen so it looked and ran like new?

His high-energy style had him experimenting with a few different products and creating a checklist of items that you could do to make a kitchen “look and run like new.” He called it Kitchen Tune-Up. He started advertising this unique service and the phones started ringing. He was able to make it through the recession without laying off his team as everyone jumped to start doing tune-ups in kitchens.

As Dave told the story of his tune-up, he got a very similar response each time, “Wow, I could use that in my kitchen.” He decided the best way to grow the business would be to franchise it. He was also excited about the idea of helping others get into business for themselves, but not alone like he was when he started his cabinet business.

As the customer’s needs changed, so did Kitchen Tune-Up. He added more and more services to update and improve the kitchen. As the franchise owners changed, the model also evolved. It moved from an owner-operator model to one where the owner worked ON the business, not IN it. This allowed each franchise location to have a business they could sell in the future, and also gave them more work/life balance.

Training and Support

Our philosophy is that training and learning are an ongoing process, so we provide a wide variety of ongoing training.

We begin with a home-study pre-training course that guides you through opening your business and helps set the stage for when you come to training school. You will learn how to secure a business phone number and business insurance, have a conversation with our Marketing Director on your marketing plan, and dive into manuals and videos about our core services. Then you will travel to Aberdeen, South Dakota for 8 days of training at our Home Office. Our team uses our on-site training facility and labs to teach you how to operate your franchise. The experts of each department will go through technical training, marketing, sales, accounting, operations, suppliers and more.

After you leave training, you’ll be assigned a mentor from the Home Office to check in with weekly and complete a 12-Week Action Plan. We’ve created comprehensive online modules that can be accessed anytime or anywhere from any computer or mobile device. These modules guide you week-by week, and step-by-step all the way from Pre-Training to 12 weeks post-training.

After your first 12 weeks, you will then join the KTU Connect Program and be assigned a Connector to check-in with on a regular basis. The frequency of the phone calls are up to you. We love when our phone is ringing all day, so we encourage everyone to call in and ask questions or seek advice as often as necessary.

Our industry is always growing with new ideas, so we strive to keep you the most informed as an expert in the home improvement field. Your knowledge will keep expanding with our many offerings throughout the year via webinars, podcasts, newsletters, weekly coaching calls and discussions in our private Facebook group. We top it off with an annual 3-day National Reunion. We gather annually and you will keep learning best practices for running your business, plus there is a variety of training from suppliers, professional speakers and the Home Office team, not to mention valuable networking with your fellow franchisees.