Be your own boss

Join The Source Bulk Foods, where you can run your own store with the support of our proven business system. Enjoy bringing your personality and local knowledge to your store while benefiting from our reputation and know-how.

We’re here to help you succeed every step of the way.

To help drive sales, we offer comprehensive national and local area marketing services. As the largest health food franchise in Australia, The Source Bulk Foods enjoys a strong presence and a loyal customer base. Our brand is recognised and loved across the country.

Be your own boss and enjoy a healthy work-life balance. Experience the pride and satisfaction of owning your own business.

We offer hands-on training and ongoing support to ensure you feel confident running your store. Benefit from a personalised training plan covering all necessary skills. Ongoing training and post-opening support are provided to ensure your success.

Customer service is at the heart of The Source Bulk Foods. We help you create a friendly and welcoming environment that keeps customers coming back.

With over 46 stores, our network provides cost savings through increased buying power and an efficient supply  chain. Our supportive community fosters collaboration and excellence. Our support team is always available to assist with all aspects of your business.

At The Source Bulk Foods, you’re family. We help you achieve your goals and develop your team, ensuring a  fulfilling work-life balance. Partner with our dedicated area support team for operational support and growth.

The process could take two to three months. We need to ensure that it’s not too rushed so that you have time to speak with your advisors and also so that we all get to decide that we are the right fit for each other. We’re going to be together for a long time so this process is really important.

Yes, the application deposit is refundable during the recruitment process if you don’t proceed and until you pay the commitment fee.  After that, the commitment fee is refundable right up until you are approved as a Franchise Partner less reasonable costs incurred throughout the recruitment and induction process to that point.

A new store costs approximately $350,000 to $400,000 but it does vary depending on the size of the site, its location and also the requirements of the site itself. This cost includes the initial franchise fees, fit out costs, fixtures and fittings, training and instore support and it also includes stock which becomes part of your working capital. It doesn’t include the bank guarantee that the landlord will require though, which is paid at the beginning of the lease and is refunded back to you at the end of the lease if all conditions are met.

In some cases, you might receive a fitout contribution from your landlord to help offset these set up costs. Landlords provide this to ensure a quality build and the amount, if it’s offered, is negotiated at the same time as the initial terms of the lease.

You certainly can and we welcome proactive Franchise Partners who get out looking for the perfect site in their area. We do have a site finder who will also be looking but, in our opinion, no one knows an area quite as well as the people that lives there. If you do find a site, we can help do the due diligence to assess whether it is likely to be suitable for and accepted by The Source Bulk Foods.

A Franchise Agreement term is typically 5 years with an option for a further five years. Lease terms differ depending on the outcome of negotiations with the landlord and can be anywhere from 5 to 7 years. When you are at this stage in the journey, we can provide further information about both of these agreements.

People skills are the most valuable skills for any retail business owner. Being a franchise with a knowledgeable support team, we can train you in any other skills that you need such as understanding your financials, managing a team, budgeting and stock management. There’s also no requirement for skills and experience in the food industry but it does help if you enjoy food! Your enthusiasm for the products you sell will rub off on your team and your customers.

Apart from that, you should have an ethical approach to business, have a passion for healthy living and an ambition to succeed. Plus, you have to be hard working. We’ve created a great system, but it’s your hard work that will drive it to succeed.

The training that new Franchise Partners receive is amazing. Apart from the one day spent in a store during the Discovery Journey, you will also spend five days in our training store on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. If you’re going to do training, it may as well be somewhere fabulous! During that week, you will undergo training in customer service, front of house procedures, use of the point of sale system (POS), back of house reporting and ordering, store management and managing your social media.

Plus, when your store opens, we send our trainer to you for about ten days. The trainer will arrive about five days before your grand opening day and take your team through training in customer service, POS, product knowledge and procedures. The trainer will then stay with you in your store for approximately another five days. During this time, the trainer will continue to train your team and guide you also so that you have the confidence to run your store once we leave.

Once your store is underway and your initial training has ended, you will have a Franchise Coordinator from our Operations Team available to you who can help guide you through just about every aspect of your business.

There is also the Marketing Team who prepare fantastic national promotions, assist stores with their local area marketing, and work to build brand awareness. Plus, there’s the Procurement Team who work with our suppliers to source product that meets our ethos and at the best price possible.

There’s no shortage of people with the skills and expertise to help you drive your business.