Eric Alvarez Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Davie, Florida, United States

With Franchise Territories operating in over half of the United States, Clothes Bin is the first textile recycling franchise. Clothes Bin utilizes processes developed over nearly four decades to help the environment by reducing unnecessary textile waste in landfills. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average American discards 70 pounds of unwanted clothes, shoes and textiles into landfills each year, which amounts to over 20 billion pounds of preventable waste per year. Even with the efforts of all non-profit and for-profit companies, ~85% of all textiles end up in landfills.Clothes Bin has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine in their Top New Franchises category, the 10 Side Hustle Franchises article, and the Entrepreneur Franchise 500. Clothes Bin also ranked at #391 in the Inc. 5,000 fastest-growing companies.

Weston, Florida

• Solely and successfully opened over 40 franchise locations over the past 5 years.• Reduced and maintain of Cost of Goods at 26% throughout the franchise.• Directly responsible for pre-opening functions to include obtaining permits, licenses, installation of all electronics, TV’s, DVD’s, POS, Internet system, phone system and all involved in successful operations for the franchise• Involved with Building Process of all locations. Site Selection, Working with the Architect, Working directly with the GC from start to finish, Opening location in time allocated for each location. • Recruiting, hiring and training of staff fully capable of operating the franchise successfully.• Marketing each location prior to opening through Street Teams, School Functions, & Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, & Instagram),• Teaching and maintaining all brand requirements to consistently pass inspections by the Health Department and the Department of Hotel and Restaurant Management.• Responsible for all Corporate JuiceBlendz & YoBlendz locations to include sales, profitability, scheduling, presentation and product knowledge. • Ensure the information and tools necessary for the execution of the brand is received and used consistently. Handle operational problems as per brand standards. • Conduct audits of the stores. Identify key issues and problem areas in order to prepare and execute actions plans that increase productivity and assist with the development of the brand. • Assist in human resource objectives by recruiting, training, coaching, and counseling franchisees and their employees. • Direct and assist franchisees in growing sales by supporting with financial evaluations to achieve realistic profitability• Monitor daily operations of all stores, identify trends and gaps in performance to determine system improvements and implement changes as needed. • Work in conjunction with Research & Development to facilitate simultaneous launches of new products.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Directly responsibility for recruiting, hiring, training and developing staff of over 35 members for three locations.• Drive sales and profitability in stores through marketing, promotions and personal goals. • P&L and Inventory Management, Vendor relations, Scheduling & Team Building for all locations.• Personally exceeded yearly sales goal hitting $750,000 in product.• Maintain of Cost of Goods at 26% throughout the locations.• Insure presentation consistency in all 3 stores representing the D&A Brand.• Implemented the POS system at D&A Nutrition currently being used in all JuiceBlendz stores.