You’ve Been Running Someone Else’s Venue Long Enough 

12-month plan. Funding support. Your name on the lease

The Problem

You can run a venue in your sleep. You’ve carried the roster, the compliance, the bad weeks and the big Saturdays. You’ve trained managers who’ve since moved on and up.

And you’re still on a salary, still building equity for someone whose name is on the door. There’s no next rung. That’s not a you problem - that’s a structure problem.

The Solution

Mad Mex has a 12-month program that takes experienced hospitality operators from employed to owner. Not a maybe. Not “opportunities for the right person.” A plan with dates on it.

• Months 1–3: Learn our systems, our menu and our standards. Paid, at manager level - you don’t take a pay cut to do this.
• Months 4–8: Run a Mad Mex restaurant as your own. Full P&L accountability, our support behind you.
• Months 9–12: Franchise readiness. Site selection, business planning, funding and finance structuring with our franchising team.
• Month 12: Handover. Your restaurant, your business, your upside.
  We work with finance partners who understand the model, and we’ll help structure the funding so ownership isn’t gated behind a deposit you don’t have yet.

Who We’re After

• 3+ years running a pub, bar, QSR, café or restaurant - multi-site a bonus
• You’ve owned a P&L and can talk labour, COGS and wastage without notes
• You’ve built and kept a team in a tight labour market
• You want equity, not just a title
• Full working rights in Australia

Why Mad Mex
75+ restaurants and growing. A brand people actively seek out. Fresh food, fast model, tight menu - and a franchise network that started, in a lot of cases, exactly where you are now.

About Mad Mex
Mad Mex is back to its OG roots. Fighting for Flavour, Defending Freshness, and living Por El Sabor in everything we do - no exceptions.

We’re not here to serve bland “Mexican.” We bring big, bold, unapologetically Mexican flavour to Australia - real recipes, real heat, zero apologies. With 75+ restaurants and growing, every shift is loud, fast, and full of opportunity.

Stop building someone else's equity. Let's talk.