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Franchise Rollout Moving Across the Sacramento Valley

One opening kit, one placement drawing and one load order, repeated at every new location, with a short sheet of notes for each address.

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Franchise Rollout moving in the Sacramento Valley: Murdock's crew at work
  • Licensed & InsuredUSDOT 3421940 · MC 1416634
  • Locally OperatedChico + Yuba City
  • Sacramento ValleyChico · Yuba City · Sacramento

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Planning a Franchise Rollout Move

When a franchise group opens several units across the Valley, each opening looks the same on paper: the brand's layout, the same counter, seating and back-of-house shelving, the same box of opening supplies. The trouble is that each building is different. One is an end-cap in a Roseville center, one is a pad site on Hwy 99 in Chico, one is a converted storefront in Yuba City.

We work from an opening kit your operations lead defines once. It is a numbered list of the movable pieces and supply cartons the brand standard calls for, a placement drawing with each number on it, and a load order that puts the first-needed pieces at the back of the truck. Every site gets the same kit, plus a one-page site sheet with its own door, truck spot, landlord rules and any layout change.

At each opening we place the kit to the drawing, check every number off the list, and hand the franchisee a note of anything missing or placed differently. The next opening starts from that note.

Who usually signs off
Franchise operations lead approving the standard opening kit, with each franchisee or site manager accepting the local setup
Timing that works
Between the contractor's occupancy sign-off and the franchisor's training week, which is usually a narrow gap set by the grand-opening date.

What typically moves

  • Freestanding counter and menu-board base sectionsNumbered to the brand drawing and set before anything else, since the counter anchors the layout.
  • Customer seating, tables and queue stanchionsCounted as sets; stanchion posts and belts travel bagged together.
  • Back-of-house wire shelving and dry-storage racksBuilt on arrival so supply cartons can go straight onto shelves.
  • Retail and merchandise display modulesPlaced to the drawing; product is loaded by the franchisee's team.
  • Office desk, safe-room shelving and manager filesSet in the back office with the manager's opening binder on the desk.
  • Opening supply cartons: uniforms, smallwares, paper goods, training materialsLabeled by room and shelf on the kit list, so staff unpack in one pass.

Access and scheduling

The date is set by other people. Your contractor needs occupancy sign-off from the local building department, the franchisor's training team has a start date, and the grand opening is often advertised weeks ahead. We schedule the kit delivery into the gap between the first two, and we ask for the sign-off date as soon as your contractor has it.

Each site sheet answers the questions that change by address: which door the truck uses, whether the center restricts truck hours, whether the property needs our insurance certificate on file before delivery day, and which rooms the contractor has released. A pad site usually has easy access; a unit in a busy center may need an early-morning or evening delivery.

If several openings are close together, we can stage the kits for each one in order and run them back to back, keeping each site's cartons separate.

Protection and handling

A new franchise unit has brand-new floors, walls and fixtures, and the contractor's punch list is often still open. We cover the walking route through the unit to the back room, pad door frames and corners, and keep counter sections wrapped until they are set in place.

The kit list is the main control. Every piece and carton carries its kit number, and the crew checks it off at loading and again at placement. Shortages or damaged pieces are photographed and written on the site handoff sheet the same day, so your operations lead can reorder from the vendor before training starts.

Fixtures the brand has installed by its own vendor, such as illuminated menu boards, signage and walk-in coolers, are not in our kit. We place around them and leave room where they go.

Who does what

Some of this job belongs to other trades. The written plan names each one.

Brand layout, kit list and opening approval
Your franchise operations lead owns the standard; the franchisee signs off each site. We place to the drawing and report exceptions.
Signage, menu boards, kitchen equipment and walk-ins
The vendors the franchisor specifies, plus licensed trades, install and connect them.
Point-of-sale, network and phones
The brand's technology vendor or your IT provider sets them up. Our crew places the counter hardware on request.

Not part of our work

  • Deciding whether a site is ready to open or meets the brand standard.
  • Installing anything anchored, wired or plumbed.

Around Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Franchise growth in the Valley follows the new rooftops: Roseville, Rocklin and Lincoln along Hwy 65, Natomas and Elk Grove in Sacramento County, Plumas Lake in Yuba County, and the north side of Chico. Many new units sit in new retail centers where the landlord's contractor and the tenant's contractor share the site in the final weeks.

The crew that shows up

Two Murdock’s box trucks staged outside a single-story building in the Sacramento ValleyMurdock’s crew carrying a pad-wrapped piece through a tiled entrywayMurdock’s crew rebuilding cubicle panels in an office, one mover on a step ladder

Franchise Rollout Moving FAQs

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What goes into an opening kit list for our first site?

Every movable piece the brand standard calls for, with a number, a description and a room: counter sections, seating, shelving, displays, office furniture and the opening supply cartons. Add the placement drawing with the same numbers on it. We load, deliver and place to that list, then send back a note of anything missing.

Our next location has a different floor shape. Does the kit still work?

Yes. The kit stays the same and the site sheet records what changes: a counter that turns the other way, fewer tables, a smaller back room. Your operations lead marks the changes on that site's drawing, and the crew places to it. Pieces that do not fit are staged for your decision.

How do you keep kits separate when openings are back to back?

Each site gets its own kit numbers with a site code, and its cartons are loaded and delivered as one group. If two openings fall in the same week, we stage the second kit apart from the first and do not borrow pieces between them without your operations lead's say-so.

Who tells the franchisor that a site is ready?

Your franchisee or operations lead. We hand over a site sheet at the end of placement listing what was delivered, what was missing and anything placed differently from the drawing. That sheet can go into the franchisor's opening checklist, but the readiness call is yours and theirs.

Plan your business move

Tell us both addresses, the building rules you know about, and the dates you cannot move. We will send back a written plan and estimate.

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