The Symposium Cafe proven franchise systems and techniques teach our franchisees how to train their team. The training program for team members of your restaurant is extensive and thorough. Excellent customer service skills, menu knowledge and versatility are key to the cafe program. Each member is trained to operate quickly and be extremely adept in a minimum of three restaurant positions. Ongoing training ensures that the cafe team continues to expand their skills and know-how. A knowledgeable and dedicated restaurant team member, utilizing our proven systems will lead to higher profits.

We maintain high quality standards in each of our restaurants both corporate and franchised. Partnership with our supplier group is based on loyalty, product quality, innovation, competitive pricing and a commitment to strong business ethics. Through an extensive selection process of restaurant suppliers we have been able to source the market’s best for our franchisees. Extensive negotiating ensures quality products are available at the best overall price to our franchisees and corporate restaurants, on a regional and national basis. Consistency of product lines and high quality is critical at the restaurant level. Our cafe purchasing program has been designed to survey and research each and every supplier to meet the standards of our specifications. Each Symposium Cafe supplier is visited throughout the year so that we can conduct visual inspections of their plants. Suppliers must demonstrate compliance with Government regulations and sanitation levels must be at the highest level. Franchisees are invited to attend these visits to strengthen their relationship with the supplier.

The Symposium Cafe franchise opportunity allows you as a franchisee the choice to purchase products and supplies from a wide variety of authorized Symposium cafe suppliers. We have carefully selected our supplier partners based on their commitment to product quality, innovative ideas and competitively priced products. We do not control the restaurant purchasing flow of product from a central commissary. Through continued negotiations with our supplier partners, we strive to offer the best possible products in each of our restaurants that are competitively priced. Only our signature products are purchased through specific Symposium Cafe suppliers. Application form for Canadian/American/Worldwide franchise opportunities, click here "None of the communications made through this Web site should be construed as an offer to sell any franchise in, nor is any such communication directed to, the residents of any jurisdiction requiring registration of the franchise before it is offered or sold in the jurisdiction. No franchises will be sold to any resident of any such jurisdiction until the offer has been exempted from the requirements of, or duly registered in and declared effective by, such jurisdiction and the required Uniform Franchise Offering Circular (if any) has been delivered to the prospective franchisee before the sale in compliance with applicable law, If you have any questions concerning the registration status of franchises in your jurisdiction, please contact us at info@symposiumcafe.com"