Last Updated on July 30, 2012 by DeanR
HuHot Mongolian Grill Franchise
HuHot Mongolian Grill is a franchise for a Mongolian Grill Restaurant.
It was founded in 1999 and started franchising in 2002. The first location was opened in Missoula, Montana. The first franchise location was opened in 2002 in Omaha, Nebraska. What they emphasize in their concept is to always have everything fresh, fast, customer-oriented, and healthy. They state that their concept mirrors the attitude towards the world of Genghis Khan which is “ripe for conquest”. They look at their competitions as Genghis Khan looks at rival nations, with confident disdain. They focus on this theme in all their marketing efforts.
What is on the menu at the HuHot Mongolian Grill?
As a Mongolian Grill, you will need to create your own meal and what they have are choices of protein, vegetable, noodle, and sauce. For protein, you can choose from chicken, beef, pork, spicy sausage, mild sausage, cod, calamari, krab, halibut, salmon, mahi mahi, shrimp, scallops, and swordfish. For vegetables, you can choose from baby corn, asparagus, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, broccoli, black beans, cabbage, carrots, cilantro, celery, green peppers, green beans, onions, mushrooms, pineapple, peas, snow peas, red potatoes, tofu, spinach, water chestnuts, tomatoes, zucchini, and yellow squash. For noodle choices, they have yakisoba noodles, Chinese noodles, HuHot rice blend, and pad Thai noodles.
Choices of Sauces includes black Thai peanut, bekter’s ginger, feed the hordes hoisin, burn-yout-village barbecue, Khan’s favourite, five village fire Szechuan, mean bean garlic, kung pao yow!, not-so-sweet sour, mongol mustard, yellow belly curry, samurai teriyaki, Thai lemon basil, Asian coconut, hot chilli or garlic oil, Mongolian sunburn, lemon juice or lime juice, sweet chilli sauce, sesame oil, garlic chilli sauce, soy sauce, sherry, and ginger broth or garlic broth. For appetizers, they have potstickers, eggrolls, veggie spring rolls, crab rangoons, and shrimp wontons. They also have soups and salads as garden salad, egg drop soup, and Asian salad with dressing. For dessert, they have cheesecake ragoons, cheesecake, S’mores, molten muffin, marshmallows, graham crackers, ice cream, Hershey bar, and Khan’s cake. These may differ depending on location. Besides the food, they also offer gift cards and merchandise items such as adult apparel and kid’s apparel.
Cost and requirements on running a HuHot Mongolian Grill
You need to have a net worth of $1,500,000 and a total liquid asset of at least $200,000. Expect to be investing about $782,000 to $982,000. The cost of HuHot Mongolian Grill franchise fee is $35,000 with an on-going royalty fee of 5%. This is for a renewable 15 year term agreement. You will need about 80 employees to run one location. They allow multi-unit ownership and absentee ownership.
What is included in the franchise package?
There will be three weeks training at the headquarters and training at your location that varies. You will be assistance at the grand opening. You will be given access to the internet. You may also expect to receive occasional field evaluations. For marketing support, there will be ad slicks, co-op advertising, and regional advertising.
HuHot Mongolian Grill Contact Details
You may reach them at:
Address: 223 East Main Street Missoula, MT 59802
Phone: (888) 751-3461
Email: contact@huhot.com