""I had to go in two weeks and be a worker," Woods says. "Make smoothies, learn the daily operations, then learn the managerial stuff, and then learn the ownership side. I was just a team member at Smoothie King. Cleaning up, cleaning bathrooms. I had a great time.""
"Woods was there by design after acquiring a Smoothie King location in Georgia. As part of becoming a franchise owner, his required training meant making smoothies, cleaning bathrooms, taking orders, running inventory and learning the cadence of a store one shift at a time."
""Insurance tells you how risky something is," he says. "And trucking insurance is very, very high.""
Xavier Woods applies a hands-on approach to entrepreneurship by completing required franchise training and working frontline shifts to learn daily operations. He performed tasks such as making smoothies, cleaning bathrooms, taking orders, running inventory and observing store cadence to understand team realities. His first investment was a family-connected Atlanta property that he and his wife chose to hold rather than flip. He entered trucking next, noting its high insurance costs and risks. He focuses on hiring the right people and setting processes early so businesses can multiply and become largely hands-off once teams are established.
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