Happy New Years!

HAPPY NEW YEARS!

tumble & tea café is pleased to announce we are NOW awarding franchises nationwide!

We personally welcome you to find out more about our exciting franchise program. Please email us the essential information below EVEN if you believe we already have it. You’re cooperation is appreciated and needed in order to receive your FREE copy of our initial offering brochure.

Please e-mail us the following:
 
Your name and phone number
Your physical address
Your business partners if any
Source of funds for investment
 
Respond quickly as we only have a limited amount of locations available and we don’t want you to miss out!
 
If you are interested about franchising in general, review our website at www.tumbleandteacafe.com. We have created this valuable resource to answer many of your questions and give details about our program.   
 
At tumble and tea café we are very selective about the products we offer. If we sell coffee, it’s the best. Our lattes are superb and our signature paninis will make your customers come back for more! Our franchise program is no exception. We are very proud of the franchise program we have developed and we look forward to telling you more about it.

Thank you again for your interest and we look forward to helping you open your own tumble and tea café!
 

Gina DeCarlo
CEO & Founder
gina@tumbleandteacafe.com

How do I own a tumble & tea cafe franchise?

As the director of franchising, I am frequently asked, “How do I own a tumble & tea café franchise?”
I have decided to dedicate this week’s blog entry to explain our process step by step.

Simply stated, franchisers (us) award franchises (tumble and tea cafes) to franchisees (you). We determine which franchisees best represent the characteristics we are looking for to be part of our unique and proven system. The qualities a tumble and tea café franchisee MUST possess are listed below:

• Outgoing and friendly with well developed people and management skills
• Problem solving and multi tasking abilities
• Ability to achieve goals in stressful environments
• Strong sales and customer service skills
• High personal standards of excellence, honesty and integrity
• Ability to follow instructions

So….how do you get started?

Step 1: Contact us! You can send me an e-mail aaron@tumbleandteacafe.com or you are welcome to call me @ 866-99-tumble. If you are sending an e-mail please include your name, phone number, primary residence, location you are interested in opening your tumble & tea café & your mailing address.

Step 2: Once I receive your information we will send you a package with more information about us and the financial requirements.

Step 3: Once you have reviewed the information, our next step is to plan your visit for your initial meeting and presentation at out corporate headquarters in Berkeley, California. Come see our headquarters, meet our staff and learn more than you ever wanted to know about tumble & tea café!

Step 4: At your meeting you will receive a copy of our Franchise Disclosure Document. In regulation with the FCC you will NOT be able to acquire a franchise on this initial visit. We will review specific details of our operation & you’ll get a chance to ask questions and meet our staff. You will also have a private meeting with our designer to discuss design ideas for your café. This visit is intended to give you all the information possible so you can make an informed decision. You are under no obligation to move forward once you attend your initial visit.

Step 5: We will plan your next visit 2 weeks after our initial meeting. This gives us time to do a background check on you and for you to continue your research about opening your café.

Step 6: If you meet our qualifications and we decide to award you a franchise, you will come see us again and have an in-depth operations review at which point you will be awarded a franchise. CONGRATULATIONS!


We are able to offer nationwide franchises in the following states:


Arizona
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Massachusetts
Missouri
Nevada
New Jersey
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Texas
Tennessee
Washington


If you think you got what it takes and you are ready to finally start your own business and not just think about owning your own business, contact me. This just might be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

Aaron Thomas, Director of Franchising, 866-99-tumble,

aaron@tumbleandteacafe.com

tumble & tea cafe is..

What is tumble & tea cafe?
tumble & tea cafe is a family restaurant with an amazing, custom designed play space for kids. Not only do we serve food made from the best and freshest ingredients possible, we also host birthday parties for kids and we are now awarding franchises. Want to know more about tumble & tea cafe? Click here to go directly to our website!

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Christmas is just around the corner and before you know it the ball will be dropping in the middle of Times Square and 2009 will be upon us. New Years is all about change. We make resolutions for the upcoming year and examine our lives to see what we would like to change, what our goals for the future are and what we can do to better the hand we have been dealt. Maybe the best change you can make for this year is an investment in a business that lets you call the shots!
Investing in a tumble & tea café franchise may be the type of change you need for 2009. Owning your own business allows you to once again regain a control over your life you may feel you’ve lost. When you own a franchise you are your own boss. The confinement of the corporate world is alleviated when you have the power to make decisions, the power to lead, and the power to control your finances.
In a world where nothing is ever certain you, will be giving your self the greatest gift of the New Year when you invest in a tumble & tea café of your own…job security! When you have control over your own business you eliminate the fear of uncertainty held when you are employed by someone else. Your destiny is in your hands. You do the hiring…you do the firing. But the best part is you are never truly alone in your business venture. tumble & tea café backs their franchisees 100%! We provide you with the tools, training, and experience you need to make sure you meet your goals.
tumble & tea café is a posh, wifi café that serves mouth watering food and has an amazing play space for kids- you think anyone in your neighborhood can’t wait to go to your tumble & tea café?
This new year do something for yourself and your family. Invest in a tumble & tea café franchise and discover the power of being in business for yourself…not by yourself!

Economy.... why timing is perfect?

Opinion polls prior to the presidential elections indicated that the issue of greatest importance to Americans was the economy. We don’t need the polls to tell us that- the economy is what we are all thinking about. To not talk about the economy at this point would be like not acknowledging the pink elephant standing in the middle of your living room.

The current economy is testing businesses. Businesses which do not have a solid concept, do not provide a quality product or service or are not managed properly are shutting down. But businesses that have good leadership, deliver consistent quality and provide value for your dollar still continue to thrive in this economy.

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel extensively over the course of the last year. One thing which was constant whether I was in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris and even Barcelona, is there is a line at good restaurants, seats are still filled with hungry customers and malls are filled with people carrying shopping bags. And yet the economy has recently been in a downturn. Why?

People are demanding more. The value of the dollar means more than it did in prior years. They are particular about what they buy and how they spend; they expect more.

Now more than ever a franchise may be the best investment to make—not in spite of, but because of the economy.

There are three reasons why the economy is perfect for opening your tumble & tea cafe:

1. Location
There are excellent retail locations currently available that were not available to you last year. Landlords are willing to negotiated free rental periods and lease improvements. What should you be negotiating and which retail location is favorable for your tumble & tea café? We will assist you in finding a location and provide you with a list of lease improvements beneficial for you.
2. Value
tumble & tea café charges $4.95 per child and $2 per sibling for ALL DAY PLAY.

Compare tumble & tea café to the short list of venues available for parents and children.
1. Movie admission for adult & child plus popcorn: $ 23
2. An hour gymnastic class for child: $ 15
3. Children’s Museum pass for adult & child $14
4. tumble & tea café all day pass for adult & child $4.95

3. Support
When you join the tumble & tea café family you are in business for yourself not by yourself. 1 out of every 5 small business fail with in 5 years compared to 91% of all franchises that are still in business.

We provide you with training, a professional marketing plan, access to marketing materials, real estate assistance and continual education to keep you updated on market trends. You also get the advantage of our discounts because you are part of our team. All of this and you are a 100% owner of your café.

tumble & tea café is the much needed escape parents love. Parents need an affordable break. Do you have a posh, wifi café that serves amazing food and has a play space for kids in your area? tumble & tea café offers a perfect environment for parents and children at a price that keeps your customers coming back for more.

The economy is always changing and after a recession we will be in a period of recovery and growth. Lock in your location and lease now. Who knows…it could be the best business decision you have ever made!

Contact us now for more information. We would love to tell you more about the tumble & tea café opportunity.

tumble & tea café Goes Green!

Gandhi stated, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

It is widely accepted and current research states that the continued misuse of our natural resources is increasingly deteriorating our planet. In order to stop this deterioration, it is important for us to change our consumption habits. tumble & tea café knows the importance of Go Green which is why we have implemented some environmentally conscience measures to do our part to help Mother Nature.

tumble & tea café has reduced its use of paper in many ways. We have switched from a paper pay roll system to electronic transfers. We do not advertise in the local yellow pages and we also recommend that our franchisees don’t either. We preach and teach e-mail lists instead of typical mass mailings and we try to streamline our paper use as much as possible.

tumble & tea cafés are equipped with energy efficient appliances and we purchase the most energy efficient lighting fixtures possible. Each location is active in recycling and where permitted, is encouraged to compost as well. At the corporate office we recycle and use electronic means of communication over paper whenever possible. We also strive to purchase all play structures made out of recycled materials.

All of us at tumble & tea café believe that we are capable of impacting the world and our environment in a positive way. If we love kids so much that we build tumble & tea cafes, we must also love the planet our children will inherit.

If you have any suggests or tips on additional “green” products or systems for tumble & tea café, let us know! We are always looking at new ideas. Please e-mail your ideas to contactus@tumbleandteacafe.com.

Thanks for reading and have a very green day!

Locations for Future tumble & tea cafes!

As director of franchising, I am proud to announce that we have received full and unconditional approval in our domiciled Sate of California to start awarding tumble & tea café franchises! As a result of this approval and other state requirements we have fulfilled, we can now offer franchises in the following states:


Arizona
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Iowa
Kansas
Massachusetts
Missouri
Nevada
New Jersey
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Texas
Tennessee
Washington


We are particularly interested in specific cities and surrounding areas around the country that meet our definition of excellent markets for tumble and tea café. They are:

1. Houston, Texas
2. Dallas / Denton County, Texas
3. Chicago, Illinois
4. Phoenix, Arizona
5. San Antonio, Texas
6. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
7. Bergen County, New Jersey
8. Tri-valley, Northern California
9. Denver / Colorado Springs, Colorado
10. Seattle, Washington

We feel these cities meet the characteristics that will make tumble and tea a beneficial addition and a long standing business member in these communities. We are very excited about these prospective areas but there are several other communities not listed above that have interested us as well.

tumble & tea cafe is a family restaurant with an indoor play space for kids. We also host birthday parties for kids and we are awarding franchise opportunities to qualified people. If you believe your neighborhood is in desperate need of a tumble & tea cafe, let us know. We are always looking for new locations and new people to join our team.

Please feel free to contact us for franchise information and we would be happy to discuss your area, ideas and our business concept with you.

Contact me today at aaron@tumbleandteacafe.com for additional information.

From the Inside….

When you're looking into buying a franchise you want to know everything about the business you are investing in. It's not just the costs; it's also the company itself. Does the company and the people who you are investing in match what you are searching for. As a member of the tumble & tea café team I wanted to take this chance to lay out the nitty-gritty about what it is really like to be a part of the company and to work for our CEO, Georgina DeCarlo.

As the youngest member of the team, I came in thinking there was going to be a great deal of the "corporate" feel. You know a company where the CEO seems to suffer from a "God-like" complex and employees are reminded daily of just who exactly is in charge. The polar opposite could not be truer. Working with Gina one almost instantaneously forgets she is the boss. She has a natural ease with how she deals with people one-on-one, and it's when you see her coolly handle any situation that you are reminded why she is in charge.

For someone who has built this company from nothing, it amazes me how grounded Gina is. Employees become friends, and friends become family. Work is just as important as whom you work with, and I can testify to loving who I work with just as much as loving my work! It's the same across the board with everyone in tumble & tea café. We work hard, pouring hours into creating the best tumble & tea café franchise program, and striving to make tumble & tea café a household name; but we also know the importance of staying sane after a long days work is rewarded over margaritas and love-life gossip.

In the end I can't sum up things better than by simply stating how lucky and blessed I feel to be part of something like tumble & tea café. The café itself is such a groundbreaking concept and the team is made up of so many smart people gifted in their perspective fields. I love my job, I love Gina, I love everyone who is a part of the team, and I LOVE TUMBLE & TEA CAFÉ.
From Diane Zuniga, Director of Marketing and PR

Balancing Parenting and Your Career

Saying it is difficult to balance motherhood and career is an understatement. Finding the perfect balance between work-life, mom-life, and my adult-life was a challenge for me. I was constantly feeling guilty for not spending enough time with my daughter, guilty for always being tired and guilty that I wasn’t working the same hours I did before my daughter was born. I was working for a big corporation and I was on someone else’s schedule. I felt trapped. I remember locking myself in the supply closet with a picture of my daughter to start my milk flowing so I could pump, thinking, “This is just not right.”

Not only did that get my milk flowing, but my ideas started to flow as well. I came to the overwhelming realization that I did not want to work FOR anyone else again. Did they appreciate me? I worked 9 hours the day before I had Leila and did the owner of this big bank know who I was?

And that was the beginning of it all. I have owned and operated my own businesses since then. There comes a time when you choose to do what you want- not what you are conditioned to do. There comes a time when you are ready to stop thinking about making a change but really make it. And there comes a time that you decide the best person to work for is yourself and the time is now to love what you do!

Most of the people who I have spoken to about owning a tumble & tea café are currently where I was in that supply closet. Ok, maybe they are not pumping breast milk but they feel over worked, under appreciated and pulled in too many directions. They are ready to set their own schedule, get credit and compensation for their hard work and own their own business!

Now starting your own business is by no means “easy” and being self-employed doesn’t magically fix the incredible balancing act of being a working mom. I often say owning your own business isn’t for the faint of heart. But being self employed allows you to set your own schedule and manage your workload for what is best for you and your family. Most importantly, owning your own business allows you to directly benefit from YOUR hard work. You make the decisions, you have room to be creative and you are rewarded for your hard work and dedication.

We have hundreds of request nationwide from people who want to own their own tumble $ tea cafe. Why are all these people interested in tumble & tea café? Because they get it! They see this huge market gap and they want to be the pioneers of this concept that we believe will be the new craze. tumble & tea café is a posh, wifi café that serves made to order food, excellent espresso drinks and caters not only to parents but the whole neighborhood. You have multiple streams of income from food & beverage sales, playspace admission, parties, caterings and events. People nationwide see the need for tumble & tea café in their neighborhoods.

Ok, so you are ready to start your own business and you are ready to love your work opposed to watching the clock tick until 5:00. You might be asking yourself a few of the following questions.
How do you start a café?
What permits do you need?
What characteristics are important for your location?
How do you design a café with a play space for kids?
What suppliers should I use?
What should my overhead be?

And this is why I decided to franchise tumble & tea café. We are 100% dedicated and committed to helping you open and operate your café. You don’t have the answers because you haven’t done this before- we have. We have the answers, we know the contacts and we have the team to teach you step by step about what you need to do to meet your goals.
Please feel free to contact me at anytime if you have questions about tumble & tea café or if you would like to talk to me about if opening your own business is a good idea for you. I look forward to talking with you. Love your life and viva tumble & tea café! Gina DeCarlo, Founder and CEO, georginadecarlo@yahoo.com.

NEW CAFÉ CONCEPT LETS PARENTS BE ADULTS AND KIDS BE KIDS

tumble & tea café is a posh wifi café with and indoor playspace for kids. Serving breakfast, lunch & weekend brunch, the incredible food isn’t the only reason to stop in for a visit. tumble and tea café has an amazing custom-designed indoor playspace for kids to enjoy so their parents are able to relax and recharge. This rare find has received much success and has recently started awarding franchises nationwide.

tumble & tea cafe is unique because it caters to both adults and children. The café has a posh, comfortable yet hip ambiance and offers a variety of dishes for breakfast, lunch and weekend brunch. Every item on the menu is made fresh when ordered and prepared with the best ingredients possible. From espresso drinks and breakfast sandwiches to signature gourmet paninnis, soups and salads; tumble & tea café’s menu will fill you up and keep you coming back for more.

The play space is safe and secure. It is enclosed by a transparent fence with only one entrance and exit to make it easy to keep an eye on your child. Best of all, this play space is visible from every seat in the café so parents can relax and enjoy themselves while the kids amerce themselves in play.

Since its doors opened in August 2006, tumble & tea café has become the home-away-from-home for many parents and their children. The unique ability of the café to cater to adults and their children as well has helped it thrive and inspired hundreds of nationwide requests for their own neighborhood tumble & tea cafe. In response, tumble & tea cafe is awarding franchises and will be opening locations nationwide.

tumble and tea cafe history

COMPANY HISTORY

tumble & tea café began out of the creative mind of Founder and CEO, Georgina DeCarlo. The concept arose out of necessity for Georgina during a period of transition. When her daughter Leila had just turned one, she ended her seven year marriage and the divorce was anything but civil. Georgina became a casualty of layoffs and the physical distance from her family left her without a daily support system. She was left lonely, scared and depressed.

After the dust started to settle, Georgina realized everything she identified herself with was gone. Her perfect little family, house and career were all destroyed in what seemed to be the blink of an eye. The questions mounted. Who am I? How can I support my daughter? And what do I want to do with my life?

With help from friends, the depression and loneliness began to subside and as Georgina spent more time raising her daughter, she realized there weren’t places that catered to adults and children. That is when the idea for tumble and tea cafe started to become a reality. She would spend countless hours doing research and developing strategies and business plans well into the night. You might say tumble and tea café was originally a home-based business because its design and operations were literally created at the kitchen table.

After months of research, Georgina decided to take this new business venture head on. That was the beginning of the tumble & tea café concept: a posh, wifi café with an amazing indoor play space for kids. Georgina decided to create a place that catered to the neighborhood and parents by offering them delicious food, a stylish ambience, wifi, great music and a place to meet, mingle, relax and recharge, while providing children with a custom-designed indoor play space that is educational as well as fun.

Georgina knew she needed help getting the café off the ground and managed properly so she asked one of her good friends to be her partner. They both worked very hard and through adversity, constraints and the demands of motherhood, the doors opened a year later. tumble and tea café was a reality! All of the time, money, and hopes where realized when tumble & tea café opened its doors in the summer of 2006.

Georgina worked virtually every day to build, create and modify her vision to ensure that tumble and tea café would meet her projections. Her efforts clearly started to pay off. The café became a local hot spot and a real life home-away-from home for many bay area parents. They loved that their neighborhood had a new and fresh posh hang out and a space for parents who didn’t want to stop being adults. This novel concept got the press talking and soon tumble and tea café was featured in many publications and television shows throughout the U.S.

Now, after years in operation and over 600 worldwide requests for franchises, Georgina has decided to meet the demand for tumble and tea cafés nationwide through awarding franchise opportunities. We are proud to say that since we have begun the franchise process, Georgina’s original partner is now the sole-owner of the first tumble and tea café in Oakland, California.

“What better way to meet the incredible demand for tumble & tea cafes than to teach other people how to be business owners?” says DeCarlo. “I want to help people by providing a relaxing, local hang out, a paradise for parents and a great business for people who want even more.”

Our comprehensive franchising program has been designed to ensure that franchisees receive the maximum experience from their own tumble & tea café. Through custom restaurant and play space designs, top notch marketing tools, a standardized and comprehensive operations manual and most importantly continual training of all franchisees and employees, tumble & tea café has gone through great strides to build a franchise program that will continue to uphold the standards of excellence that Founder and CEO Georgina DeCarlo began when the doors of tumble and tea café first opened.

tumble & tea café firmly believes in quality over quantity and we strive to provide top notch service for our customers. Our company’s goal is to create tumble and tea café franchises that are built on a solid foundation of both dedicated and qualified franchisees and customer satisfaction; ensuring every tumble and tea café experience is a positive one.