• Canadian Franchise Association Award of Excellence
The Symposium Café concept has been awarded the Canadian Franchise Associations 2011 Award of Excellence in regards to our Franchisee support, one of only two full service restaurants in Canada to win this prestigious award.

• Award Winning Concept
The Symposium Café concept has won numerous awards over the past years including Best Restaurant Atmosphere, Best Bistro, Best Business Lunch, Best Desserts, and Best Breakfast.

• Unique Décor
The interiors of our restaurants pay tribute to the Renaissance period and offer our guests a retreat of sumptuous atmosphere, sensual delight, comfort and affordable dining. The attentions to detail along with our visual enhancements have become extremely well received, differentiating the Symposium Cafe from our competition, and keeping us on the leading edge of the Canadian restaurant experience.
The uniqueness of our décor is recognized by Trademarks Canada which has awarded the Symposium Café concept Trade dress protection throughout Canada, one of only a handful of restaurants to ever achieve this.

• Our Proven System
Our franchise system guides each of the franchisees through every facet of the restaurant operation. Upon becoming familiar with our system each franchisee will be able to train and develop each of their associates in all areas of the restaurant business. Our system revolves around the philosophy of "Continued Training" to guarantee our team meets and exceeds our dining patrons expectations.
All positional training techniques are clearly outlined in our restaurant manuals with easy to implement instructions. Our restaurant cost management system, indexed in our operations manual, is designed to provide you with the necessary tools to completely analyze and understand your restaurant franchises business both from a sale and cost perspective.
Informative and educational restaurant symposiums are held with the main focus and discussion revolving around driving and developing our restaurant and patio sales while controlling costs using our proven cafe systems.

• 3-Month Training Program
Our extensive and comprehensive training program offered to our franchisees allows you to learn our policies and procedures. Each franchisee apprentices at a specific restaurant with each step of the training monitored and evaluated to ensure successful graduation of The Symposium Café restaurant program. Upon completion of the training program you will be well equipped with an in-depth knowledge and strong operating command of our proven systems.

• Opening Team
Your Symposium restaurant franchise opportunity launches with the assistance of a restaurant opening team. This team is comprised of a group of high energy, dedicated, knowledgeable restaurant managers and staff. They will lead and guide you through the opportunities that can arise during a restaurant opening.

• Transition Tutor - 10 Weeks In Store Training and Support
Upon successful completion of The Symposium Café training program and assuming the responsibility of your restaurant franchise, a transition tutor is assigned to directly assist you on a regular basis in your restaurant franchise for a period of 10 weeks. This tutor works closely with you through the opening stages of your cafe, the day-to-day operating systems and procedures to ensure a successful start-up of your restaurant. This program is designed to strengthen and build the Franchise operators commitment to our proven systems. Our unique 10 weeks in-store program is crucial to building your team, establishing a strong customer base, growing restaurant sales and operating a successful Symposium Cafe franchise.

• Adaptable Site Requirements
The Symposium Cafe brand identity does not rely on a typical "box" to succeed. Our adaptive development strategy and flexible design allow stores to be constructed in many different types of sites, including prototype buildings, conversions/retro-fits, strip center end-cap locations, and non-traditional sites.
If we find an empty shell that we like, we move in and make it work and we can also work with suitable strip center end-cap locations, or we can convert an existing, freestanding former restaurant.
Because of this flexibility, tremendous opportunities become more available from Landlords at high profile unique locations, and many times giving the Symposium Café the edge with Landlords.

• Brand Strength & Versatility
Our brand has over a decade of proven success and a loyal customer base in our existing markets. The Symposium Cafe is a timeless concept that has that rare ability to appeal to a variety of consumers. Many casual dining concepts seem to copy each other in their menus and restaurant "feel". The Symposium Cafe concept is uniquely different and is truly the most unique dining establishment in the Canadian marketplace.

• Adaptability
We continually adapt our concept to bring the relationship between our company vision, the "art", the interior restaurant décor and our extensive restaurant menu full circle. The strength of our concept and our franchisee together with our solid marketing strategy and a well-developed transition plan, ensures that we will continue to grow our customer base, our sales volume and the number of restaurants.

• Superior Quality
Our products and service levels are "Second to None"™. The extensive and well balanced menu of European coffees, specialty beverages, exotic desserts, and classic gourmet meals including our All Day Gourmet Breakfast are under constant consideration and evaluation. Attention to consumer trends, innovative signature products, and product quality and consistency ensure that the Symposium is a destination restaurant location for consumers.

• Manuals & Operating Procedures
A set of comprehensive manuals are provided to an Symposium Cafe Franchisee upon the signing of the Franchise Agreement. These manuals are designed for easy reference and serve as an authoritative source of information about the Symposium Cafe standard operating policies and procedures. These manuals are frequently updated to reflect Symposium Cafes response to the changing needs of today's guests.

• Marketing
Symposium Cafe restaurants rely primarily on a local marketing program that gives each store the marketing programs and promotions that match the needs of the individual store's market. Advertising and promotional materials are available at a reasonable cost to Franchisees and we employ our own graphics designer to assist our franchisees with your marketing needs.

• Purchasing
The purchasing department of Symposium Café negotiates services and price agreements with approved suppliers and distributors for all restaurant purchases. The volume of these purchases allows us to reduce costs for all restaurants in the system. Unlike many Franchisors, we do not derive any income from a commissary kitchen.

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