Personally, I think I can choose to join or start my own business according to my own situation.
When you can meet the requirements of 1, plenty of time and 2, good ability at the same time, you can choose to go it alone.
There are many things in catering, and everything must be done by hands. Every little detail, from decoration, positioning, dishes, pricing, business strategy, cost accounting, publicity and management, takes a lot of time and brain cells, so it is difficult to have sufficient time and certain ability.
If you are short of ability and experience or time, you can choose to join a brand to accumulate experience.
Advantages of joining: It's worry-free and labor-saving. Brands, products and models are all a system, so you can just follow the headquarters.
of course, you have to pay more money for this. Now the catering competition is so fierce that profits are saved by daily management.
The joining market is a mixed bag. Many brands just want to make money after joining, and they are not good at managing brands at all. The "parallel imports" of the fire in previous years, due to poor management of the headquarters in the past two years, direct stores have closed their stores! Joining and choosing a good brand is the key. This requires vision and great luck!
even if you join the best brand, you need to manage with your own heart, including the quality of ingredients, the control of costs, the stability of services and dishes, and the maintenance of old customers.
a little personal opinion, I wish you success!