Franchising
A SkySlice territory is a circle on a map with one operator inside it. You run the pad and the kitchen. We run the aircraft, the airspace and the paperwork.
Every pizza business on the ground is really a driving business. It pays for a dining room it half fills, a parking lot it never uses, and a fleet of couriers sitting at the same red light as everybody else. Its delivery radius is not a radius at all — it is a drive time, and it collapses every day at five o'clock, which is exactly when the orders arrive.
Ours is a circle. It is the same size at 5:20 on a Friday as it is at two in the afternoon, because nothing we own has ever been in traffic. That single difference is the whole business case, and it is why a SkySlice pad serves more households from less floor space than anything else in food service.
You are not buying a restaurant. You are buying the airspace over one.
One operator per zone, drawn as a real polygon and registered against your agreement. No other SkySlice aircraft may release a box inside it, including ours. We have been on the wrong side of a delivery boundary, and we do not do that to our own people.
Nineteen hundred square feet of light industrial with roof rights. No frontage premium, no seating, no washrooms for a hundred strangers a day. The lowest rent per delivery in the category, by a margin we are still slightly embarrassed about.
The fleet is leased, and the lease covers airworthiness, scheduled maintenance, spares and a replacement airframe inside 24 hours. Drones depreciate like fruit. That is our problem, on our balance sheet, in Brampton.
Our flight operations floor can take your weather calls, your night coverage and your awkward doorsteps remotely, from day one. You are not standing up a 24-hour pilot desk in order to sell your first pizza.
The operating certificate, the beyond-visual-line-of-sight authorisations and the site surveys are filed by our regulatory group under the national licence. You are named on it. You do not have to become an expert in aviation law to sell a slice.
Oven Fresh Hot & Ready comes with the territory: a live stone-deck oven that finishes the bake at four hundred feet and arrives with the pie still in it. Highest margin on the menu, and no competing product, because nobody else has one.
Four weeks in Brampton on aircraft, winch, oven and operations, then four weeks on your own pad with our launch crew flying beside you. Your first hundred boxes go out with somebody experienced standing at the console.
An aircraft holding over a driveway with a lit oven underneath it is watched by the entire street. Territories consistently open above forecast on organic demand alone, and we have never once bought a billboard.
No car, no gas, no tips-based income, and nobody driving in weather that frightens them. Courier churn is the quiet tax on every delivery business, and this one does not pay it.
Canadian dollars, for a standard single territory with a four-aircraft fleet. The figures are indicative, they move with your build, and the franchise disclosure document is the only version of them that means anything legally.
| Initial franchise fee | $45,000 |
|---|---|
| Pad build-out, roof works and winch tower | $88,000 – $164,000 |
| Kitchen fit-out — deck oven, prep line, walk-in | $92,000 – $148,000 |
| Fleet activation — four airframes, first and last | $14,800 |
| Ground station, charging bays and spares kit | $31,000 – $58,000 |
| Training and launch crew, eight weeks | $18,500 |
| Certification, insurance binder and legal | $12,000 – $27,000 |
| Signage and launch marketing | $9,000 – $22,000 |
| Working capital, first three months | $45,000 – $75,000 |
| Total initial investment | $355,300 – $572,300 |
| Royalty | 6% of gross sales |
|---|---|
| Air & brand fund | 2% of gross sales |
| Fleet lease, per airframe | $1,850 / month |
| Oven Fresh module, per equipped aircraft | $940 / month |
| Flight operations and airspace services | $2,400 / month |
| Premises — 1,900 sq ft, roof rights | $3,100 – $6,400 / month |
| Aviation liability, $10M per occurrence (the oven is lit for the entire flight; underwriters had a lot of questions) | $1,240 / month |
| Liquid capital required | $150,000 |
|---|---|
| Net worth required | $500,000 |
| Agreement term | 10 years |
| Renewals | Two × 5 years |
| Typical territory | 14 km², exclusive |
| Signing to first delivery | 5 – 7 months |
Retail pays for footfall. You have no footfall — nobody will ever read your sign, park near your unit, or know what your building looks like. The only thing your site has to be near is the centre of the circle, and the centre of the circle is usually a tired light-industrial pocket behind the good road, at half the rent of the corner everyone else is bidding on.
This page is information, not an offer. A franchise is offered only by a disclosure document delivered under the law of the province or state the territory sits in, and only where SkySlice is registered to operate.
Almost none of our operators arrived as pilots, and the ones who did were not automatically the best of them. What the strong territories have in common is an owner who is on the floor at six on a Friday, who is comfortable telling a hungry customer that tonight the wind says no, and who understands that they are running a small aviation operation which happens to sell dinner — in that order, permanently.
If "the cargo is on fire" makes you ask a follow-up question rather than leave the room, we should talk.
Step 1 of 2
Two questions, and no details about you at all yet. We check the location against the territory register first, because there is no sense asking for your finances about a zone that is already spoken for.
Opening the territory register…
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Territory under discussion
The register shows an open file on this zone, and we cannot take a second enquiry against it while those talks are live. Nothing has been sent, and nothing has been kept.
There is no step 2 on this one, which is why we did not ask you for anything. Deals do fall through, though, and territories are redrawn every time coverage expands — so if you want to be the next name against this zone, or you have somewhere else in mind, write to franchise@skyslice.shop with the location in the subject line. A person in Brampton reads them.
Files do collapse, and when one does the territory is re-let quickly and quietly. If you would rather not wait on email to hear about it, the franchise development line takes messages at any hour: (254) 274-2533. Say which zone you are asking about and someone will call you back.
Every expansion redraws the map, and every redraw creates territories that did not exist three months earlier. Most are spoken for within a fortnight of appearing, almost always by somebody who wrote to us long before the zone reached them.
Write early. The map moves faster than the paperwork.
— Franchise development, SkySlice Aviation Foods Inc.
franchise@skyslice.shop