Digital Social Hour - Avoid These Popular 'Health Foods' Packed With Junk | Ross Franklin DSH #752
Episode Date: September 24, 2024🚨 Are you being fooled by so-called "health foods"? Join Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour as he sits down with Ross Franklin, founder of Pure Green, to uncover the shocking truth behind popula...r "health foods" packed with junk! 😱 Discover how some acai bowls can contain more sugar than three cans of Coke! 🍬🤯 Tune in now to hear Ross's journey from gym consultant to Pure Green pioneer, and his mission to prioritize nutrition with quality ingredients. 🥦💪 Are those "healthy" options really what they claim to be? Don't miss out on this eye-opening discussion packed with valuable insights! 📈 Join the conversation and learn how influencers are calling out big brands, forcing them to change! 💥 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Keywords: Digital Social Hour, Sean Kelly, Podcast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Ross Franklin, health foods, Pure Green. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:25 - Ross Franklin’s Background 02:45 - Health Food Industry Insights 06:10 - Importance of Third Party Testing 09:40 - The Truth About Tropicana 11:00 - Pure Green's Unique Selling Proposition 12:31 - The Issue of Microplastics 13:36 - Pure Green Location Count 16:45 - Future Plans for Pure Green 17:40 - Introduction to Biohacking 19:56 - Benefits of Juice Cleanses 21:02 - Debunking Gary Vaynerchuk 22:28 - Caution in Public Statements 22:53 - Cost of a Pure Green Franchise 23:32 - Connecting with Ross Franklin APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: Jenna@DigitalSocialHour.com GUEST: Ross Franklin https://www.instagram.com/rossffranklin/ https://www.rossfranklin.com/ https://www.puregreenfranchise.com/ SPONSORS: Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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a little research to uncover it. And the crazy thing is some of these acai bowls,
they have over a hundred grams of sugar. Jesus. That's like three Coca-Colas. I mean,
it's not a health food. So there's a lot of deception going on in the industry.
And so the way we do it, we never cut corners. Everything is done the right way. It's hand
crafted. It's blended. It takes longer, but it's a superior product i love that all right guys got ross franklin here founder of pure green which we got right here thanks
for coming on man absolutely thank you so much for having me yeah i've been slamming these things
awesome good flavor and good packaging man and good ingredients thank you so much i appreciate
that yeah absolutely it's important i'm on a big health journey now so i'm very conscious of what
i'm putting in my body and you guys seem to have quality ingredients. So thank you. Yeah. It's all about nutrition.
That's what I found. Yeah. Was that the goal when starting this to have really good ingredients?
And yeah, that was it. You know, I, um, my background's in fitness and so I used to own
my own gym, sold it and then started a consulting company. And so I was known in the fitness
industry as the fixer. So I would get the call when the gym owner was struggling and I would go in and get them profitable.
Launched many new gym chains, yoga studios, Pilates studios, finally juice bars. And I came
to this realization, which is when you look at optimal health, 80% of getting results is nutrition.
And so that became the foundation for starting Pure Green.
That's huge. So you were the Hormozy before Hormozy existed.
We were doing the same things.
Nice. Did you run into him when you were in that space?
Never, never ran into him. I think timing was like a little off.
Okay. You were probably a little before him.
Yeah.
That's crazy though.
Back in the day.
Yeah. Look at the times now, both of you guys taking off.
Yeah.
Starting off in gyms.
That's right.
Are gyms still crushing it?
So they are.
You know, there's a big shift with you had the big box gyms, which were 40,000, 50,000
square feet.
And then you had the boom of the specialty boutique gyms, kind of like your orange theories
and pure bars.
And so there was a big shift.
Then you had CrossFit.
And so gyms or fitness is definitely still here to
stay, but there was definitely a shift away from the big box. And, you know, with COVID,
everyone got Pelotons and some people working out at home. So it's definitely transformed.
CrossFit, you couldn't avoid a few years ago. Everyone was talking about it. It was actually
annoying at a certain point. It couldn't avoid injuries too. Oh my gosh. Crazy. Yeah. That stuff
looks intense. Oh yeah. Yeah. Pelotons really taken over though shout out to them yeah for sure that's some of the best
marketing i've ever seen yeah covid was like the best thing that that happened to these guys and i
think gamifying working out was brilliant yeah because it's so like like treadmills or i can't
do treadmills dude but if you put me in a race with other people on a treadmill i might do it
that's right people people love it they become obsessed. It was a great concept. And after gyms, you got into acai bowls, right?
That's right. Into, uh, into the juice bars. Yeah. And you were basically saying how most of those
acai bowl places are actually unhealthy. Yes. So that's, that's a, that's a big thing. It's, uh,
you know, for me, it's like when I realized that optimal health really is nutrition, you know,
I realized that when you look at how do you really is nutrition, you know, I realized that
when you look at how do you create something scalable, you know, we're talking about these
gyms. When I was doing these big box gyms, 40,000, 50,000 square feet, these gyms have
massive infrastructure. What I love about the juice bar model is it's scalable. These are small
models, right? So 500 square feet to a thousand square feet, small footprint. It's really
scalable. It's really duplicatable.
But when you look at all the players in the marketplace right now, not everyone's doing it the right way.
There are some out there that are really cutting corners.
So when you look at the industry as a whole, it is booming.
When you look at the healthy food sector, market size is about 270 billion.
And then kind of dialing it in subcategories.
Take acai, which you mentioned.
So acai is about 6 billion, and it's growing at a CAGR, Compounded Annual Growth Rate, of 11%.
Wow.
So it's really taken off.
But here's the thing.
There's a lot of deception going on that people don't even realize.
If you go into a juice bar and you watch them
make an acai bowl, you're going to see one of two things. You're going to see one, they're going to
scoop it out of a bucket. And it's a sorbet. It's a compromised product. Or you'll see them do it
on a frozen yogurt machine. And the problem with that is it's full of additives, emulsifiers,
gums, guars, and high amounts of sugar. A lot of these juice bars, they have their nutrition facts buried on their website.
So you have to do a little research to uncover it.
And the crazy thing is some of these acai bowls, they have over 100 grams of sugar.
Jesus.
That's so much.
That's like three Coca-Colas.
Holy crap.
It's not a health food.
So there's a lot of deception going on in the industry.
And so the way we do it, we never cut corners.
Everything is done the right way.
It's handcrafted.
It's blended.
It takes longer, but it's a superior product.
I love that.
Dude, I went to a Froyo place the other day.
They didn't even have the nutrition facts on any of the flavors
because I wanted to see how much sugar I was eating.
It was a little cheat meal, you know?
And I couldn't even find it online.
It was crazy.
I can't believe they could do that. It's crazy. I mean, a lot of, when you reach a certain scale,
they make you put the calories on the menu boards and you have to have it somewhere,
but you have to dig on these sites to find where they have nutrition, where they have the
ingredients. And then what's happening right now though, is you have like these influencers,
like the food baby. Have you heard of the food? Yeah. I've seen her. She's calling out like these big brands and big brands used to be able to get away with
it because they spend so many dollars on marketing and they're really educating the public on kind
of their products. Right. And now you have just this boom of all of these influencers, like the
food babe who are calling out these massive brands like Subway, like Chipotle,
and they're making them change their practices,
which is, it's really remarkable.
There's been no time in our nation's history
where it's like this.
Yeah.
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...individuals just calling out these massive brands and making them change their practices.
I love it.
A lot of people were calling out Whole Foods Hot Bar for the seed oils, and now they're starting to remove them.
That's right. Which is incredible. The people're starting to remove them, which is incredible.
The people are really causing a change, which is remarkable.
Never happened before in the big food space.
That's right.
And now Brian Johnson's calling out Athletic Greens.
Oh, I saw that. Yeah, he was kind of like, he kind of was up until recently,
he didn't really talk about it. But now that he came out with his own products,
I just ordered it, by the way.
I already been taking it.
How is it?
So I like it other than the fact that there's natural flavors in it. I wish he would just have the pure powder. Which one did you order? I ordered like the whole kit because I
want to try every single one of them. So in both powders, there's natural flavors, which I'm not a
fan of. I'd love to hear your opinion on natural flavors. Yeah, no, I agree. It's like there's a
lot of hidden junk in there. It could be anything. So I was surprised someone like him would put that in his stuff.
But maybe there's a reasoning.
You know, when he had his, he listed all the ingredients, all the supplements he was taking.
Yeah.
I went through them all really carefully.
And I found that just a lot of the supplements he was taking, it wasn't the best.
There was a lot of fillers in there.
There were seed oils as fillers in a lot of those supplements.
So even the ones he was taking wasn't the best.
I think his focus is he's prioritizing the science.
He has this whole team of dietitians that are supporting his blueprint program.
And so I think his focus is more on the clinical studies,
but less away from just the quality of the ingredients.
And for me, the quality of the ingredients is And for me, like the quality of the ingredients
is one of the most important things.
Same.
I think he was just moving so fast.
I don't know if he was third-party testing the supplements,
but I don't buy any supplements
unless you're third-party tested.
That's right.
Because of heavy metals, because of contaminants,
who knows what else is in them.
Oh yeah, you'd be so surprised.
It's not regulated.
Not regulated at all.
And when a lot of these independents have called out,
especially when you look at like plant protein, a lot of these brands are contaminated with high amounts of
heavy metals. And so that's why I wouldn't like with my company, Pure Green, like we make them
provide like third party testing. We scrutinize that to make sure it doesn't contain any heavy
metals. But it's like read something where it's like nine out of 10 plant-based proteins have
high amounts of heavy metals in it. Dude, I'm not surprised. I just saw a pasta. I
used to eat Bonza. It's made out of chickpeas. Yeah. It has like PFAs in it. Yeah. They just
got called out. That's crazy. Yeah. And it's supposed to be healthy. And I really feel just
these, these influencers calling out these brands, like it's really good for the benefit of everyone
because they're causing them to change and do the right thing.
Right.
I think margin gets in the way and they don't want a third-party test because it's expensive, right?
That's right.
I think when you run a company, everyone's trying to just monetize.
I mean, it's a business.
And so they're using inferior ingredients because it's a lot less expensive.
And it's a tough game because these have a shelf life, right?
So these companies want to extend that so they make more money.
But the problem with that is the ingredients, right?
Exactly.
I'll give you the cold-pressed juice that you're drinking.
So if you look at previously, like let's say a Tropicana, it's pasteurized.
So that juice is heated to the point where it's completely devoid of all nutrition.
Wow. And so they have to infuse it with, with inferior nutrients to show the nutrition levels.
And so what we do is when you cold press it, we use, uh, these hydraulic presses that retain all
the vitamins, minerals, and live enzymes from the fresh fruits and vegetables. Then we do this
process called HPP, which is water pressure. And so we
use equalized pressure, 87,000 pounds of pressure per square inch. And what it does is it kills the
harmful microorganisms, locks into nutrition and safely gives it an extended shelf life. So there
is a right way to do it. That's incredible. And I'm really upset about Tropicana. I drank that
growing up. Yeah. That's so upsetting. Holy crap. Holy crap. I thought it was pure orange juice.
Right.
So why are they heating it up?
So the pasteurization, same thing with milk.
They heat it up, like we were talking about before, just so the companies can make more money.
It lasts longer.
Yeah.
If it's in its raw form, it's not going to last more than a couple of weeks.
With juice, it's not good for more than three days.
So this only lasts three days?
So when it's not HPP. So when I first started Pure Green, we started cold pressing it and we'd
had all the equipment, machines in the back. And when we were selling it, there was a couple,
two problems. One problem is that when we sold it, we couldn't predict how much was going to sell. So wastage was 25, 30%,
which is crazy for business. My bigger issue was that when we clocked the nutrition,
so right when it's made, we clocked the nutrition. Nutrition's amazing. But then on day three,
when we clocked nutrition, it's a fraction of the level. Because of oxidation, the nutrition
degrades. And so I couldn't ethically sell that. I don't want to sell it on its third day. That's crazy. So then I discovered this HPP process, which locks in that nutrition,
slows down the oxidation process. And so the juice is good for 60 plus days.
Holy crap.
From the point it's manufactured.
60 days?
That's right.
That's incredible.
Yeah. So it was a real game changer for us. And that's how we were able to start our wholesale
business. And so now we work with over
80 professional sports teams, 30 college teams, even SpaceX is a client.
Incredible. So this is in Elon's office right now?
I can't confirm or deny.
I love that. Are you in retail, like Whole Foods and stuff yet?
So we're in some of the bigger markets. A thought process with the wholesale side of the business
was to start with the most sought after and hard to get accounts.
We even have some U.S. military divisions drinking it.
Nice.
We developed a nutritional advisory board with four top tier dietitians, three from professional sports teams and one for the U.S. military.
And they back up everything that we do with peer reviewed scientific research.
And so we're one of the only brands that do this.
And so the professional sports teams,
they will not like travel without it.
Really?
Yeah.
It's that good?
Yeah, so the dieticians, the coaching staff,
they notice a huge difference in the recovery of the players,
huge difference in their performance.
And so they have it with them at all the time.
Holy crap, you might have to email Mark Cuban.
That's nuts, man.
Absolutely. That's incredible.
15% juice, filtered water, agave, ginger. Yeah. Everything's all natural, right?
That's right. So we have some juices. Most of it is just a hundred percent juice. We have a few
flavors that we developed just for the professional sports teams. We added probiotics in there for gut
health, over 4 billion flora probiotics. We added a little lemon in there for electrolytes. And so we have some that are not 100% juice,
but they're amazing for sports performance.
I love it.
How do you feel about all this microplastic craze right now?
Are you keeping an eye on that?
Oh yeah, yeah, it's a big issue.
For us, when we HPP the juice,
you can't do it in glass bottles.
It won't survive the HPP process.
But our juice, it's in 100% recyclable PET bottles. Because the juice is in there for such a short time, just a couple of months, and it's kept cold all the way through, so it's constantly refrigerated, we've tested it for microplastics, and it does not have any.
Oh, wow. So it must be when it gets too hot then. It's more like when you, when you deal with like bottled water, for example, you know, that, that, and the transportation
process that gets heated, it's going through States where it's a very hot climate. Right.
And so that heat is melting the plastic into the water. That's where it really becomes a big issue.
I stopped drinking bottled water, dude. Yeah. I only drink glass. I I'm same. I do mountain
Valley glass bottles. Good old mountain Valley. You got the five gallon at home. Yes. I only drink glass. I'm same. I do mountain Valley glass bottles. Good old mountain
Valley. You got the five gallon at home. Yes. I love it. You live out here. Um, so I live in,
uh, in Boca Raton, Florida. Oh, nice. Yeah. No state tax there either. So no,
I love it. Uh, how many locations you guys have now? So right now we have 50 locations open 50
in construction, 20 in site selection. Wow. So we'll have 100 locations open by Q2 of
2025. Holy crap. So you're growing quick. We're growing very quickly. And is that because of
franchising? It's all because of franchising. Nice. And so our franchisees, they're all so
passionate for health and wellness. And they're all so great at embracing their local communities.
So they really are driving force behind our growth. Yeah, and you caused some great timing
because there's a huge health craze right now.
That's right.
It is really booming right now.
And in the space right now, I don't know if you heard,
but Tropical Smoothie Cafe was just bought out
by Blackstone for $2 billion.
Holy crap.
And so they're watching all the trends as well.
In the venture world, a lot of people follow Blackstone. They're getting into the space for,
for a reason. Yeah. And those smoothie places, I'm not trying to call anyone out, but like
I would go to them and feel like shit after drinking them. That's right. Cause I think
they add sugar or something to their smoothies. Yeah. There's a lot of low cost competitors out
there and they don't place the same premium on ingredients that, that we do.
So like, for example, we don't just use whey protein. Our whey protein is sourced from pasture
raised grass fed cows. Wow. That's the level of curation that's reflective for all our ingredients.
I love that. Yeah. Cause if you're using regular whey protein, those cows are injected with who
knows what, right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm the same way with chickens. Like I only eat pasteurized eggs.
That's awesome. With beef, only grass fed, even grass finished if I can. I'm the same. I mean,
we get our, uh, our produce from a local farm. Nice. That's how it should be. Yeah. Right. You
said you visited Ty Lopez's farm recently. That's right. Yeah. Where was that at? So he's in, uh,
he's got a farm out in Virginia. So he took me all around there and, um, he had some animals on
there and, uh, yeah, good, good experience. That's a life goal of mine to have a little farm,
a little animal sanctuary.
That's awesome.
Yeah, when you know exactly where your food comes from
and by growing it yourself, I mean, that's the next level.
Can't beat that.
That's unbelievable.
Yeah, I mean, I look at what I ate growing up
and it's disgusting looking back at it.
Same thing for me.
It's like, wow, I ate bacon and eggs that weren't pasteurized and chicken that wasn't organic. Same thing for me. It's like, wow. I ate bacon and like eggs that weren't
pasteurized and chicken that wasn't organic. Same thing for me, even worse. Like all the
processed foods. I grew up on fruity pebbles, cocoa puffs, all that stuff. Right. What a 360.
Now there's heavy metals in those. You see, you saw that new study. Yep. Crazy. It's, it's insane.
Yeah. And that was normal. You know, I was taught growing up breakfast, most important meal of the
day, eat cereal with dairy milk. Now I only drink raw dairy milk if I can. That's crazy. Yeah. And that was normal. I was taught growing up, breakfast, most important meal of the day, eat cereal with dairy milk. Now I only drink raw dairy milk if I can. That's crazy.
Yeah.
But that's banned.
In a lot of states, it is.
Yeah. Crazy, right?
Yeah. And even the way they get around it in places like Sprouts, they have raw kefir,
but they market it for pets, not for human consumption. So that's kind of a
workaround, but it's really kind of like, if you know, you know, it's for humans.
That's good to know though. Cause I try to find it at Whole Foods and Sprouts cause I shop there
and I can never find it. Yeah. Most states like they won't let you do it. Other than Cali though,
when I go to Erewhon, they have raw milk there. Yep. So that's the one good thing about Cali.
Yes, it is. Can't name any other good things, but maybe the weather. Yes.
Dude, what's next for this? I know you're scaling. Any other plans?
So for us, we believe that when you look at the United States, that for Pure Green,
we believe the US can support 1,000 units. So we're just on a path to build healthier
communities around the globe. Wow. 1,000 units. That's like 40 in every state. That's incredible, man. Yep. Going international after that. And so eventually that's,
that's the goal. We would love, we'd love to be a global company. Is it just you running this?
You got partners? So just me on the franchise side of it. I have a partner on the, on the
wholesale side of it. Wow. You're running the whole franchising by yourself, dude. Yep. That's
impressive. We have a great team. I really believe that, uh, any successful company,
like it's a team sport. And so our goal is just to hire a plus players for every single position.
I love it. And so we have a lean team right now, but it's growing fast. Any other health things,
biohacking things you're into? Um, I mean, I've been, you know, back in the day, you know,
I have to be careful now because we have this nutritional advisory board,
and they're not fond of the word biohacker.
Okay.
But, you know, in the past, I know on a personal level,
a lot of the OG biohackers have done some business together,
and I've done a lot of you know experimenting
with it myself and it's fun it works right for sure I feel amazing infrared I'm doing PMF mats
right now I'm doing oxygen chambers what do you find the most successful out of all the modalities
what's the most successful one I'd say sauna really yeah, that to me is just, I feel amazing.
What about you?
For me, I would say I was really big into testing my blood.
Okay.
So at one point I would get my blood tested every six months.
Holy crap.
To the point where my doctor, he was like,
Ross, you have the cleanest blood I've ever seen.
He's like, you do not need to do this.
But I want to make sure,
not quite the level that Brian Johnson is doing it,
but I want to try to get in the optimal zone for every single nutrient, every single vitamin, every single
mineral. But it becomes obsessive. I feel that. I do it once a year and it's definitely important.
I used to be scared of it. I didn't do one for maybe seven years, but it's so important because
I had some massive deficiencies when I got mine from Gary Brekka last year. And now I do it every
year since. Have you noticed a difference in your performance just through correcting those
deficiencies? Oh, so massive night and day. I used to wake up groggy and I thought that was normal.
Now I wake up pumped. I jump out of bed now. That's awesome. And what do you attribute that
to? Like which nutritional deficiencies did you correct? I fixed magnesium, vitamin D, vitamin C,
testosterone was a bit low. So I'd say those four were the big ones.
And then I had some other minuscule ones.
It's so interesting.
Those are like the basics.
Yeah.
So it's so interesting by just correcting the basics, you notice such a substantial boost in your performance.
Yeah, but a lot of people are deficient in those.
Yeah.
Especially vitamin D.
That's what I've heard.
I've heard some percentages, like 70% of people are deficient in vitamin D.
That's insane.
I just saw a stat, 91% of people have digestive issues or something, which is insane.
Wow.
Because of all the processed food.
70% of the diet's not processed in America.
It's so crazy.
It's disturbing.
And the obesity epidemic in this country is nuts.
It's nuts.
You ever done a juice fast or water fast?
Oh, yeah.
We sell juice cleanses.
Oh, yeah?
So, yeah, big advocate of that. How many days, what's the most you've done?
Most I've, I've done a five day cleanse. Okay. That's pretty intense. Yeah. For us,
we usually recommend one to three days. I've done one. Okay. No, two, maybe two days is my max.
Two days is nice. I want to hit three. Cause that's when I heard you start killing off bad
cells. Have you done water or juice? Just water. Okay. You should try
a juice cleanse because you're getting more calories with it just from the juice. But what
you're also doing is you're flooding your body with vitamins, minerals, and live enzymes. And
so kind of the difference there, we're talking about just correcting deficiencies. When you have
a cold pressed juice, it's so rich and so many nutrients. A lot of times it just corrects
nutritional deficiencies.
And that's where that burst of energy comes from.
So when you do a juice cleanse,
it's a little different than a water cleanse.
So maybe something to check out.
Yeah, I'm sure if it was juice,
I could probably do three days because water was tough and I had a basketball game
and I felt terrible during it.
Oh yeah, you gotta be careful with sports
when you're cleansing.
Do you see that video of Gary Brekka
talking about juices, orange juice?
I don't know if I saw that particular one.
I've seen a lot of his videos.
He said drinking orange juice was worse for you than eating an orange.
You know, I heard something like that where he's hating on also like when you blend up the fruits and vegetables.
When you blend it, yeah.
Yeah, I did hear that.
What was your opinion on that?
A lot of the guys who are really respected in the scientific community are kind of
debunking that. Okay. What's interesting is he really doesn't provide any science for saying
that. He just kind of like spit it out and didn't back it up with anything. It doesn't make any
sense. Yeah, that to me scared me, honestly. But then I saw people debunking it. I actually gave
up smoothies because of that video, but then I think lane debunked it and a couple other guys yeah
so i'm gonna start drinking them again yeah that makes zero sense yeah well it's when you see
someone like that say it you know for the common person that holds a lot of weight yeah for sure
i mean i have a lot of respect for for what he's doing i mean he's really and what he did with
dana white is remarkable dana white so many other people too. Stephen A. Smith, Steve Harvey, changing people's lives.
So I have a lot of respect for what he's doing and how he's getting the word out.
But there are certain things that he says that a lot of people are pushing back on.
Yeah. Yeah. The health space is a tricky one to make bold claims in because there's always a study
for and against everything. That's right. And you're going to, if you say the wrong thing, like everyone's going to call you out. Yeah. I'm
happy. I'm not in your space, man. Is that why you're kind of quiet on your Instagram?
Yeah. I have to be, I have to be very careful just cause also when you're in the franchise world,
it's like, I can't say anything controversial because we have people that put their life
savings into, into pure green. Wow. And so if I go on a public platform and
I say the wrong thing, it could affect the brand and it could hurt our franchise partners.
That makes sense.
And they're the lifeblood of our company.
Is it public how much you charge for a franchise?
It is. So we have in the franchise world, what's called an FDD, franchise disclosure document.
So we're only able to say certain things, but for us, we can give a range. We can give ranges and averages.
Depends on the state and the cost of the building and everything.
So that makes sense.
Exactly.
A lot of variable factors.
Okay.
What's like the range though, if someone wants to start one watching this?
Yeah.
So all in capital to open a pure green franchise can range from $177,000 all the way to $443,000.
Okay.
Given how big the store is,
where it is, a lot of times the landlord is contributing to part of the build.
So a lot of different factors there. Got it. That makes sense, man. Where can people find
out more about this and find out more about you? Yeah. So the website for Pure Green,
PureGreenFranchise.com. And I'm most active on Instagram. But as you mentioned, not too active.
I need to do a better job of that.
But on Instagram, I'm Ross F. Franklin. Awesome. We'll link below. Thanks for coming on, man.
Thank you so much for having me. Yeah. Thanks for watching, guys. Check out Pure Green. If
there's one near you, definitely try them. See you guys tomorrow.